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Planes hit Trade Center
10:21 a ETAs an American whose father was decorated for his service in WWII and whose brother was decorated for service in Viet Nam, I understand the urge to pick up a large weapon and strike back at whoever has chosen to injure my country today. But I think that urge may not be compatible with the long term future of my country and my species...
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, causing one of two towers to collapse, and another aircraft hit the Pentagon in the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history.
Timothy
Facing the Truth
Progress + warfare = human extinction.
"No man can regard the way of war as good. It has simply been our way. No man can evaluate the eternal contest of weapons as anything but the sheerest waste and the sheerest folly. It has been simply our only means of final arbitration" -- Robert ArdreyCommitment to the adversary way —
We humans are a life form. We must avoid losing at all costs. Most of us embrace human neutrality to avoid losing. But, if our human neutrality fails to protect us from losing, then we will fight. We will fight to surivive. We do not go quietly into that dark night. We will kill to remain alive.
As Time-binding has made human technology evermore powerful, it has made human warfare evermore dangerous. Our species has the deepest of commitments to the adversary way. We humans can choose to change our ways, but do so will require us to examine our past and to understand how we arrived at this crossroad. The human species evolved from the world of animals. Our mother was a space-binder and she embraced the adversary way. Robert Ardrey explains:
"Not in innocence, and not in Asia was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north form the cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about slowly — slowly, ever so slowly — on a sky-swept Savannah glowing with menace."In neither bankruptcy nor bastardy did we face our long beginnings. Man’s line is legitimate. Our ancestry is firmly rooted in the animal world, and to its subtle, antique ways our hearts are yet pledged. Children of all animal kind, we inherited many a social nicety as well as the predator’s way. But most significant of all our gifts, as things turned out, was the legacy bequeathed us by those killer apes, our immediate fore bearers. Even in the first long days of our beginnings we held in our hands the weapon, an instrument somewhat older than ourselves."
You can read the full story starting on page 87 of: Crisis:
Danger & Opportunity — A Synergic Analysis of the Present
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