Rambling Rhodes

You're working way too hard on this point. Da Vinci? Sistine Chapel? Space travel? Howzabout "The human race ought to survive because I'm human and everyone I like is human and I want to live, and not all by myself either, like Burgess Meredith in that one Twilight Zone episode. That would suck."

I guess I did shoot a tad high. I should have kept it simpler in the off-beat chance Heather Dumbass stumbles across my blog.

Dumbass-slavia, right next to Ignoramistan, with de Nile running through it.

There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled 'Nature.'" The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of "Nature" — but beavers and their dams are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver dam (erected by beavers for beavers' purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purposes of men) the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred.
In the case of "Naturists" such self-hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate.
As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women — it strikes me as a fine arrangement — and perfectly "natural" Believe it or not, there were "Naturists" who opposed the first flight to old Earth's Moon as being "unnaturaI" and a "despoiling of Nature."

The human race is an abomination and needs to ahnih . . um, anhi . . oh, destroy itself at its earliest convenience. There isn't one fucking thing about this whole fucking race that deserves any form of redemption whatsoever, not even 'art' and 'love' like those hairy-armpitted Star Wank fans always bleat about.

Fuck it, the sooner you sad sacks fuck each other into extinction the better. And please believe me, if I see a mushroom cloud on the horizon I'll run straight towards it shouting "it's about fucking time". No zombies for me mate, oh no.

Nerds are the last bastion of defence against the common built-in self-destruct mechanism, and you can see exactly how well you're all doing on the world stage. It's a lost cause; superstition has won over reason like Germany won over Poland . . . again.

Douglas and Simon were out drinking together again, I see.

Yeah, except that Simon is-- to my perception --an amusing nihilist while Doug is a throbbing ichorous cunt.

Because, of course, loving beaver dams and hating human dams can have plenty do to with loving humans; a lot of human technology encourages ecological blowouts that negatively impact the ability of earth's biosphere to sustain human life, eg "the Dust Bowl." Disliking "artificialities" isn't just (as Doug so enthusiastically implies) an aesthetic choice-- it's part of a chain of thought about how best to maintain the viability of earth as a human habitat. This paradigm is often based, in part, on historical observations about unintended consequences over time like, for example, the negative impact of baby formula on the health of infants when compared to breast milk or the long-term effects of noise pollution on sperm counts in large mammals (ie, "us"); the implication being that human technologies designed to simulate nature or mitigate environmental/economic impediments have a tendency to be inadequate or destructive in surprising ways. Damming up the rivers and killing the fish that migrate in those rivers can hurt us in ways we haven't really grasped yet (but we're starting to: see the emphasis on omega 3 fatty acids abundantly present in salmon-- mitigated as they are by heavy metals poisoning from other human industries).

Now, I don't necessarily agree with that dam-hating attitude in all cases, but I do see some reasons for taking it into account (see prev re: "the Dust Bowl" or the starling plague in American agriculture or the rabbit plague in Australia or the continued desertification of North Africa). So, to reiterate, I think Doug sounds like the gaseous eruption from an inflamed reeking twat. But that's just my perception in this one discussion and I could be completely mistaken.

the Naturist reveals his hatred for his own race — i.e., his own self-hatred.

If they hate themselves, why are they so unashamed of their bodies?

Believe it or not, there were "Naturists" who opposed the first flight to old Earth's Moon as being "unnaturaI" and a "despoiling of Nature."

Why? Because the astronauts kept their spacesuits on?

erected by beavers

Boy, that would be embarrassing, wouldn't it? My naturist friends tell me they can always spot the "first-timers."

Heather, as I've strongly suggested to people like Bill Boyne, you really ought to humm the theme song to the movie M*A*S*H, then heed the suggestion of it's title.