(January 26, 2019 at 12:50 am)Jehanne Wrote:(January 25, 2019 at 11:33 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The highlighted present progressive tense inescapably applies universally to all things that are. The struggle is to make it progress for as long as possible for us.
It’s like saying I don’t mind dying at all so long as it lasts a long time.
If we could get our act together, the human species could last hundreds of millions of years; the dinos did.
I am not quite so sure that a thinking species, at our level, can last millions of years.
Humans went for hundreds of thousands of years without much of any advancement in thought.
It wasn't until we started farming and building not only shelters for ourselves but storage areas for grain.
We had to make better tools and domesticate animals for plowing the fields.
What we have accomplished in the past 200 years is beyond amazing.
We put men on the moon. We can talk to others of our own kind from anywhere on the planet as if we had some kind of magic.
Could you even envision us remaining at this same level of tech for a hundred thousand years ?
I can't. We think too much.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result
