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Cells have got to be the best invention ever. Even if you ignore the improbable aspect of consciousness residing in, through, or around them...vast collections of innumerable tiny squishy packages which can expand and contract, restrict and allow; self organizing, inventive things that change and adapt according to reason.
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Off I go to w3rk.
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Then we had this sick cat and I decided to end its misery. Big ol shot of insulin I think will put into a coma and a peaceful rest. Not so. So I go to break its neck. And even as I'm 5'11" and 230 the bones won't break. And so I wind up over the course of long agonizing minutes strangling the beast...
Peak Sanity. It is interesting how this quasi hopeful period of baby boomer youthful exuberance, the "Summer of Love" and the turn on the insanity of the Viet Nam war has turned into...this. The boomers hippie days were a short sighted narcissistic period of indulgences that lead us to Peak Oil and Global Warming. We've learned well...
There is always war. There is always insanity...
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Yeah I'm not sure that it was the short-sightedness of youth as much as the resentment of the aged that has led us here. I feel like the reaction against, and persecution of the hippie culture was the paranoid mirror image of it's carefree communalism that threatened the established culture of ownership and control.
Not that a society based on fucking, acid, and free food can be reasonably expected to sustain itself, but on another level, it could have been an unintentionally shrewd move on the part of the Boomers, blowing it out young before turning Yuppie. It seems to me that the crises of the present are inevitable results of overpoulated industrialization and traditional power dynamics, rather than neo-Romantic experimentalism.
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