[b]Jonathan Safran Foer
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.[/b]
In other words, business as usual.
We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more.
In other words, business as usual.
The world is a big place, he said, but so is the inside of an apartment!
Big being, among other thing, relative.
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?
God knows. Just not, perhaps, literally.
Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil – only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.
Let’s face it, few things disturb people more than in acknowledging that this might be true.
Rip? Let’s start here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
Maybe I’ll try to be more patient with morons.
Unless, of course, they’re Kids.