Comments on: Last chance for the hairless monkey? http://guymcpherson.com/2007/09/last-chance-for-the-hairless-monkey/ Humans have tinkered with the natural world since we appeared on the evolutionary stage. Our days certainly seem numbered: As the home team, Nature bats last. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Carpe Diem http://guymcpherson.com/2007/09/last-chance-for-the-hairless-monkey/#comment-29 Carpe Diem Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:50:42 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/09/last-chance-for-the-hairless-monkey/#comment-29 T'was Banned Books Week 2007 at the Tucson Pima Library a little over a week ago. At this point in the planetary game of survival, why the capitulation? Some of Jensen's books are available at your University's Main Library, and why not enlist the support of a fine body of professional librarians in addressing a book ban (one obvious one). Administrators fear for themselves first and foremost (especially true when one hasn't even read the book in question), and react to imagined reprisals and students', what, reactive upheaval? Please. We should be so lucky. The dumbing of America continues, children, because we don't think you can form your own opinions and find answers to the questions that plague you (that they probably don't want you to formulate in the first place), so we will turn off the light above one whole book section because you (they) surely can't handle it. Don't rock the boat. Don't make waves. (Let us not encourage you???). Let's pretend everything is all right. Let's all be brave. T’was Banned Books Week 2007 at the Tucson Pima Library a little over a week ago. At this point in the planetary game of survival, why the capitulation? Some of Jensen’s books are available at your University’s Main Library, and why not enlist the support of a fine body of professional librarians in addressing a book ban (one obvious one). Administrators fear for themselves first and foremost (especially true when one hasn’t even read the book in question), and react to imagined reprisals and students’, what, reactive upheaval? Please. We should be so lucky. The dumbing of America continues, children, because we don’t think you can form your own opinions and find answers to the questions that plague you (that they probably don’t want you to formulate in the first place), so we will turn off the light above one whole book section because you (they) surely can’t handle it.
Don’t rock the boat. Don’t make waves. (Let us not encourage you???). Let’s pretend everything is all right.
Let’s all be brave.

]]> By: John H. http://guymcpherson.com/2007/09/last-chance-for-the-hairless-monkey/#comment-28 John H. Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:32:04 +0000 http://guymcpherson.com/2007/09/last-chance-for-the-hairless-monkey/#comment-28 Guy- Interesting pieces. I have to admit these concerns remain out beyond my everyday perimeter except for the times when I am by myself in what the Czechs call "The Nature" or driving down Scottsdale Road and Shea on a Saturday night. I follow what you say about the delusion that we are going to change things but I tremble. I only shudder when I think about the apocalypse and think about buying allot of .22 bullets and learning how to feed off of nature with greater skill than what I know now. Have you read the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy? I have a copy if you would like to read it. Another good one is "Notes From a Mud Hut". Anyway enjoyed the post and I also googled Endgame and read the 20 premises, allot to digest, but I would have to agree we are pretty ferocious people as a whole, and he is right about things getting worse before they get any better. OK take care, John H. Guy-
Interesting pieces. I have to admit these concerns remain out beyond my everyday perimeter except for the times when I am by myself in what the Czechs call “The Nature” or driving down Scottsdale Road and Shea on a Saturday night. I follow what you say about the delusion that we are going to change things but I tremble. I only shudder when I think about the apocalypse and think about buying allot of .22 bullets and learning how to feed off of nature with greater skill than what I know now. Have you read the book “The Road” by Cormac McCarthy? I have a copy if you would like to read it. Another good one is “Notes From a Mud Hut”.
Anyway enjoyed the post and I also googled Endgame and read the 20 premises, allot to digest, but I would have to agree we are pretty ferocious people as a whole, and he is right about things getting worse before they get any better.
OK take care,
John H.

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