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The odds are a bit longer on humanity surviving this mess than the planet.
by rosser 10y ago
The odds are a bit longer on humanity surviving this mess than the planet.
- Macylpse 10y agoHumanity will become extinct long before the biosphere. You need to think more inhuman [1] "It is based on a recognition of the astonishing beauty of things and their living wholeness, and on a rational acceptance of the fact that mankind is neither central nor important in the universe; our vices and blazing crimes are as insignificant as our happiness. […] Turn outward from each other, so far as need and kindness permit, to the vast life and inexhaustible beauty beyond humanity. This is not a slight matter, but an essential condition of freedom, and of moral and vital sanity.’ [1] http://dark-mountain.net/stories/books/book-1/the-falling-years-an-inhumanist-vision/ http://dark-mountain.net/stories/books/book-1/the-falling-ye...