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Originally Posted by Crompsin
This doesn't apply to every individual in the human race, of course... and we've made a lot of progress with our world civilization network in the last few hundred years, but take away civilization and we go back to the law of the jungle, brother.
And you know what the law of the jungle is, right?
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Don't make me unearth that god-awful term noble savage.
Our brains aren't dependant on iPods et al. Shakespeare didn't have a Blackberry, and he'd be considered a smelly street urchin by our standards.
What?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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