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- From: cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese)
- Subject: Who are we kidding?
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:49:57 GMT
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- I ran up against the truth today that we have an estimated 30 years or
- less to change our ways before the damage we do becomes irreparable.
- How many society-wide religious, political, and economic trends do YOU
- know of that have changed in thirty years? Fucking none. And just
- please don't e-mail my ass and tell me "What about the American
- Revolution" and similar shit like that. If that's the most grand
- example you can think of of a major shift in living attitudes, you're
- pretty damned pathetic. I also laugh my ass off when people e-mail nme
- and seriously say thingts like, "Well, primitive man [sic] hunted all
- the mammoths to extinction, and we're just like him." Yeah, primitive
- "man" fucked the planet so badly that it only had one generation
- before it was going to kick us all off the surface. Oh, I believe you.
- If this is the denial game we're all going to play with each other,
- let's just give it up now, okay?
-
- It's finished, people. We're just not going to change in thirty years,
- face up to it. We're not the first evolutionary cul-de-sac that's ever
- come down the pike. The dice rolled, and we came out, and it just
- didn't work out. If we had 150 years or 200, maybe. But we are NOT
- GOING TO CHANGE IN TIME. Think about it. Do you honestly think that
- today's 10-year olds are going to suddenly have this mass jump in
- consciousness despite being reared by today's 40-year olds and rise up
- as one and go back to living in thatched-roof houses or at least give up
- their Nintendos long enough to find out what's happening?
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- We just don't want to admit it because we can't imagine the Earth --
- Goddess, whatever -- being around without us, its central and most
- important children. Get real. We won't be the first evolutionary dead
- end, and we won't be the last. It's time to exit stage left and let
- something else have a shot at it. Right now, all I want to do is find
- some quiet little island or something to live on so I can avoid as much
- of the splat as I can when the shit finally hits the fan.
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- Janis
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