Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Carlin
George Carlin is not concerned. He's not fumingly angry, hes just a little oissed about the tree huggers. Phaelen is talking about evolution here on Earth, and both authors mention change. While Carlin says it will all be forgotten, Phaelen says humanity is self-extincting. Technology is actually going to be our downfall because maybe we are not going through evolution anymore- we have become lazy and are making technology do it for us. Its true, take it from me I'm in astronomy; as Carlin says, the Earth in the long run will not be directly effected by us because like us, it too will come to its end. Yes, there are black holes in every solar system, and although the Milky Ways seems to be inactive right now- our sun will eventually supernova, swalowing us. So in a sense nothing really matters. but if we as human beings took this general attitude we would not better ourselves but actually sacrifice ourselves. As Carlin stresses, it is the people that are messed up, not the planet.
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hannah i can't believe you used black holes but it totally works to make the point. to really push it, its like as humans in general have we have passed the singularity and there's no way to escape, or is there still a chance we can be saved? boch would be proud.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at Carl Sagan reading his "pale blue dot" excerpt on youtube.
ReplyDeleteI like your astronomy reference. I think we can be saved as humans. There are people who care too much (tree huggers) and there are those lazy Americans who don't care at all. I think everyone just needs to care a generally acceptable amount. The tree huggers can't make up for the rest of the world.
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