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We Got Lucky
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| Hope~ George Frederic Watts, 1886 |
I have always admired Dave Cohen’s blog, Decline of the Empire. His writing is unremittingly bitter, but given his completely unsentimental view of the antics of our miserable species, it’s only to be expected. His scorching wrath can be particularly hilarious when he mercilessly juxtaposes human aspirations and delusions with our feckless behavior. His scathing fury is as immense as the compassion and grief that lies beneath it.
Now, he has written a tour de force. It’s rare and refreshing to find someone who resoundingly rejects any form of “spirituality”, or “hope”, or “woo” which, in one guise or another, almost always creeps surreptitiously into even the most gloomy analysis of the human condition – if only as the pretext that our blighted fate could have been averted. In his essay, “We Don’t See Sentient Extraterrestrials Because They Don’t Exist*” he has brilliantly eviscerated those phony, self-serving, anthropocentric constructs.
Possibly this is my favorite quote, because it underlies all the insanity perpetrated by humanity:
Source: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2013/11/we-got-lucky.html
