Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn't expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We're so smart that we're a menace.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity human-nature humans consequences meddling meddlers human-superiority
Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it?
Robert BuettnerTags: conformity universe science-fiction arrogance humankind human-behavior world-view human-superiority grand-picture
The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity war human-nature fighting unfairness brutality human-superiority
People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.
Robert BuettnerTags: life death higher-power dumb-luck
One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it 'lying.
Robert BuettnerTags: humanity human-nature lying humanity-complexity
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