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most people, even many furs, don't seem to understand what the 'it' is, we need to stop.
or at any rate, the mechanism by which we continue to do so.
most people do have some kind of a vague general idea that we need to, but that's about it.
no idea which things they take for granted are part of the problem and which aren't.
nor which we don't have to give up entirely to do differently.
a lot of people don't even realize that differently can be done, let alone how, nor how easily.
and then there are even some people who do know, but don't want them to.
the truth has been known for so long now, a lot of people seem to think its just another spin.
it has certainly become a needle buried in a haystack of them.
and for that reason, too little too late, seems almost inevitable.
people accept the role of energy policy, because that's something everyone can point their fingers at someone else.
but transportation and even land use policy, are every bit as much a part of the same picture.
war is something everyone can deny their own responsibility for too.
but famine and disease are more proximate probabilities of devastation.
they have felled the greatest empires and the mightiest armies, and will do so again.
or at any rate, the mechanism by which we continue to do so.
most people do have some kind of a vague general idea that we need to, but that's about it.
no idea which things they take for granted are part of the problem and which aren't.
nor which we don't have to give up entirely to do differently.
a lot of people don't even realize that differently can be done, let alone how, nor how easily.
and then there are even some people who do know, but don't want them to.
the truth has been known for so long now, a lot of people seem to think its just another spin.
it has certainly become a needle buried in a haystack of them.
and for that reason, too little too late, seems almost inevitable.
people accept the role of energy policy, because that's something everyone can point their fingers at someone else.
but transportation and even land use policy, are every bit as much a part of the same picture.
war is something everyone can deny their own responsibility for too.
but famine and disease are more proximate probabilities of devastation.
they have felled the greatest empires and the mightiest armies, and will do so again.
i know there's a movie by that name. some things i've seen from the trailers look interesting about it. some not so much. there's also a book called promethius road, which is probably completely unrelated. in which computers are experimenting on humans with colonies of nanites. (although even that may be kind of a spoiler, though no secret is made of it) many people have said something similar in many contexts, and i rather think the movie in some sense is likely to have been quoting them.
why do humans project their own weaknesses onto people from other worlds they've never met? i'd rather just see their pretty space ships.
(and whether they resemble the worst of us or the best, they're still just people who evolved to look different because their worlds' environments are, and have noting to do with any kind of holy roller bs, that most of the ufo-nuts project onto them. naburu for suith. i think they have this idea that anything form somewhere else is going to be like the spaniards and the aztecs, with us being the aztecs. and don't really have a clear idea of what went on there either. i think there's a kind collective guilt trip shared by the dominant western culture, and that would be kharma for all the conquests that have brought our world to where it is today. but i don't think that's a reasonable bases to make the kinds of assumptions they insist upon)
well no, at any rate i hadn't seen that movie and hadn't associated the quote with it.
why do humans project their own weaknesses onto people from other worlds they've never met? i'd rather just see their pretty space ships.
(and whether they resemble the worst of us or the best, they're still just people who evolved to look different because their worlds' environments are, and have noting to do with any kind of holy roller bs, that most of the ufo-nuts project onto them. naburu for suith. i think they have this idea that anything form somewhere else is going to be like the spaniards and the aztecs, with us being the aztecs. and don't really have a clear idea of what went on there either. i think there's a kind collective guilt trip shared by the dominant western culture, and that would be kharma for all the conquests that have brought our world to where it is today. but i don't think that's a reasonable bases to make the kinds of assumptions they insist upon)
well no, at any rate i hadn't seen that movie and hadn't associated the quote with it.
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