| I don't even want to consider how much cool stuff I would have to flush out of my brain if I was to make space for knowing everything I would need to know to survive "on my own in the wild."
Screw that. I like free time and I like good food and I like drugs and I like toys. I also like buildings and plumbing and electricity and 4 lane highways. I'm partial to airplanes and a huge fan of space shuttles.
I don't like worrying about where my fresh water and food are going to come from. The only hunter/gatherer activities I'm interested in is aquiring buds and other interesting consumables for the weekend.
And I LIKE society. I like interacting with different people with different motives on a regular basis. I like buying from some and selling to others. I like just being friends with some and disliking others. I LIKE using and being used. I like interacting with the group.
I think humanity and human civiliztion kick much righteous ass. And to all those who feel we just suck ass and that the poor downtroden planet should rise up and stomp us...
Well, I leave you with the words of Montgomery Burns (as a certain great Mycotopiate recently reminded me):
"Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese." |