Aldous Huxley used to say, “Differences among ‘human beings’ are so great that it is astonishing they breathe the same air.”
Huxley was considered a “lefty”, so go figure how a man who could utter such a statement gets the “lefty” label.
Huxley was an opponent of Wordism and committed to real science. He considered the term “mankind” to be a profound distortion of the truth.
We are all “primates”, yes, and can share language, yes, let us leave it at that.
The differences among us are enormous. They can’t even be measured in terms of light years for there are qualitative differences among “men” that create an unbridgeable separation among them.
That, in fact, is the way the world works. Never lose sight of it.
#1 by shari on 05/20/2008 - 12:56 pm
“Never lose sight of it.” Losing sight is what makes thinking all of life is a series of carnaval rides does. Not merely enjoying somethings. And then there are Christ’s words about it not profiting to gain the whole world and losing your own soul. Not a good trade off.
#2 by Pain on 05/24/2008 - 4:48 pm
I like to think that the other races are actually genetic experiments, drones built to do work for us. When it was realized what a crime it was to corrupt human genes like that, the drones were destroyed. But the mad scientists who built them held an unnatural affection for them and exiled them to the furthest, wildest places of the planet and so they survive to plague man today.
Of course there is no proof, but it is fun to let the mind roam free when doing the yardwork.