NP: featherless bipeds and whatnot

[Ian Livingston]

Well, I try to find some ecosystem that humans haven't screwed up, and the
nearest I can get is ones they haven't screwed up yet. Not only that, but
we seem masters of screwing up even our relations with our own specie.
Everything human is a catastrophe. And I'm actually feeling fairly
optimistic at the moment.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Immediate response: I like it...
> Elaborate? That is, fill out? ( or does that lose it?)
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 8, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Just floating a definitional query here. Everybody knows, I assume,
> about the debate in the Academy that led Diogenes the cynic to offer up
> plucked a chicken; and I suppose we all pretty much sign on one way or
> another with Aristotle on the social animal bit; but I'd like to offer a
> new definition of homo sapiens: Man is the catastrophic animal. Any
> feedback? Alternately, of course, it might be a good name for a band.
>
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