Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Klepticide

Jesus was crucified.
Ivan Illich was defrocked.
I, their disciple, was unpublished, fired even when I was mostly silent, then blackballed, then arrested, then censored ... routinely sabotaged.

The universities have shown themselves incapable of understanding the internet I offered in 1970, but they'd already shown themselves unwilling even to listen to my reading of Shakespeare in 1965.
I'm so stupid I still hoped the public would understand.

But no. Another aspect of my mind has been right all along: civilization in its essence is an insistence on pedal-to-the-metal foolishness, insanity, suicide.

I wish Homo sapiens could survive; but not if it insists on kleptocracy.



But you know, a few millennia seems like a long time only to our fruit-fly perspective. From a geological standpoint, human overpopulation is winking like a firefly on a summer evening.