tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post3308014158691645137..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: How We Cope With the UnbearableThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-26416085290075966752017-12-14T19:11:29.191-08:002017-12-14T19:11:29.191-08:00There's a theory that holds all intelligent li...<br />There's a theory that holds all intelligent life is self-extinguishing. That, the theory holds, is why we're not surrounded by alien visitors. The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-36127278293459125622017-12-14T16:12:20.603-08:002017-12-14T16:12:20.603-08:00The behaviour exemplified by our collective reluct...The behaviour exemplified by our collective reluctance to address issue of global warming is built into our genome.<br />A mirror anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-12142122092892349392017-12-14T12:28:36.082-08:002017-12-14T12:28:36.082-08:00Your post addresses a lot about how I feel these d...Your post addresses a lot about how I feel these days, Mound. The climate die is cast, and no amount of tinkering is likely to change what appears to be inevitable. Perhaps, as in contemplating our own death, we see the extinction of life as we know it in an almost clinical way. Just as we know at some point in the future we as individuals will be gone, the rapidly approaching impending doom of our collective selves always seems still somehow far off. <br /><br />We humans have a remarkable capacity for rationalization, denial and magical thinking, don't we?Lornehttp://www.politicsanditsdiscontents.blogspot.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-37991141090548902742017-12-14T12:24:04.181-08:002017-12-14T12:24:04.181-08:00One of the most horrifying movies I saw on TV when...One of the most horrifying movies I saw on TV when I was a kid was 0n the Beach, where Burt Lancaster takes a sub from Aus to California to track down an empty coke bottle caught in blind and tapping out random dots and dashes on a telegraph key. And I can envision the final search by my great grandkids generation for the last working twitter feed that leads to a bot account backed up by off line generators running a bitcoin mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com