From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 06:58:14 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> At this level, you can indeed see "borders"--they
>look like fences and walls and uniformed men with guns. They are
>every bit as much a part of nature as trees and mountains. I would
>expect that kind "nature good, man bad" argument from Luddites, but
>I expect better from Amara.
>
>
>
...I meant on the ground, dude...like, how do we humans _know_ where to
put our fences & checkpoints? Where's the wire-frame blueprint saying
'America ends here'...? The planet doesn't show us that so we have to
make it up, right? Then we mark it with our little fences and protect it
with a lot of knees-bent, running-about advancing behavior. Far from
nature good, man bad though because as far as I can see, most of nature
attempts to kill us quite a lot of the time. Us killing each other is
the dumb bit..._we're_ supposed to be sentient.
AR
(...Alex Ramonsky got up slowly and started looking for himself...)
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