MAN IS BY NATURE an inscrutable beast. "There are three things that are real", said john f kennedy... "god, human folly, and laughter. the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third".
Amen to that, brothah...how can it be that two hundred years ago our ancestors were mixing gun powder and aiming cannon shot using complicated mathematics; and putting leaches on people with the flu to suck all the bald blood out of them?
and how could it be that thousands of years ago higher math and architecture techniques were used to design and build huge monuments made of stone, which still stand today, while the people who built them went home at the end of each work day and worshipped animal spirits and cats as gods?
Human folly, and human genius. Who knows which will come to the forfront at any given time?
A giddy teen aged girl pulls out her cell phone, thumbs in a number, then babbles excitedly about the upcoming end of the world, as the mayan calendar expires; and the person on the other end of the transmission is her well educated mature senior citizen grandfather.
Well, you never know. It takes all kinds. we are brilliant enough to buiold monuments an cell phones, but stupid enough to use leaches as medicine and cats as gods. Fascinating creatires, we.
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