whoa nellie!

[David Casseres]

someone was all
>>-plenty of peoples have
>>inhabited this planet without propagating mythologies of domination and
>>destruction and calling that progress.  Yes, we are wiping their asses
>>off the map (as usual) but they do exist. 

and now MantaRay sez
>Doesn't the one seem to lead inevitably to the other here? It's because of
>these "peoples" inability to recognize mythologies of domination that they
>are getting their asses wiped off the planet? We can cry about it all we
>want, but this is the course of Human History, like it or not. That, I think,
>was the assertion. Not really very new. So what's the problem? 

Well maybe that *is*, like, The Problem.  That Pynchon guy might have 
some thoughts about it.


Cheers,
David