[lit-ideas] Re: on the home front
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:06:47 -0400
Andy: When resources, i.e., food, was
> scarce when we were little hominids, it was evolutionarily in our best
> interests to eat whatever we found as fast as possible and as much as
> possible. That's the reason given for the 20 minute lag between feeling
> full and feeling not hungry, so we could keep gobbling.
But only for another 20 minutes. Did you REALLY mean to say "that's the reason"?
> So now when we see oil or water or top soil or granite countertops, we're
> programmed to gobble them up as fast as possible. Unfortunately, when you
> have 6.7 billion people gobbling a mile a minute, counterproductive is an
> understatement. Well, maybe half that many gobble a mile a minute; the
> other half live in abject poverty.
Maybe that's just our way of 'balancing things out'. It's really the
only way we are going to 'solve' the problem -- by accident of birth.
Lots and lots of people are going to die and there will be a few
left. But it certainly won't be the meek who inherit the earth. It'll
be the biggest, richest, most resourceful, meanest, shrewdest. Maybe
that's the way it is supposed to be. Who knows. But when you think
about it, "Charity" is exacerbating the problem.
feeling uncharitable,
p
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