[microsound] Someones finally said it

[john saylor]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Manannan Mac Lir <macdara at email.com> wrote:
> the first guy
> said as long as we kept "crunching the numbers" we could successfully avoid
> total collapse

i think it's going to take more than numbers, although that is an
important part [doing the math].

> the second guy started off normal but
> turned sharply, he's been writing books and designing ecologically sensitive
> buildings for 40 years and he said he's lost more hope the older he's
> gotten

well- that happens to a lot of people. [getting more pessimistic as they age]

also, the end of the world has been predicted as long as there have
been people around- and no one's been right so far.

however, i feel that we are coming up to a point where we may well
destroy ourselves. i think nuclear bombs are a tipping point. it's
never this easy, but if you were to make a binary tree about the
survival of the species, i think we are coming up to a fork where we
either grow spiritually [not aligned with any religion] and see and
understand our common humanity; or we destroy everything ...

maybe we could do a project on world collapse- start with some field
recordings of an ocean [forest], a city, a war and ask the
microsounders to mix them up [and add other ingredients if they want].

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