when i say i've reluctantly come to the conclusion that industrial civilization is destroying the planet,
i don't mean it like how this guy meant it.
christ. what an asshole.
-10 points for "WTF" appearing in your manifesto.
and -20, at least, for targeting (out of all cable programming in all the world) the fuckin' discovery channel.
i mean really now.
malthusianism is fucked. humans are just animals. and baby animals are awesome.
moreover, humans aren't built for destroying the planet.
we're built for running. we just get confused sometimes, that's all.
you are right, shevek said. no fun. never. all day long on anarres we dig lead in the bowels of the mines, and when night comes, after our meal of three holum grains cooked in one spoonful of brackish water, we antiphonally recite the sayings of odo, until it is time to go to bed. which we all do separately, and wearing boots.
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- it would seem that the choice before us is between ineffectual depression and rage, on the one hand, and a superficial, complicit happiness on the other hand. but the wonderful thing about hands is that they can drop things. and the wonderful thing about us is that we also have feet, and there are more ways to go than straight ahead.
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