We exterminate ourselves
17 08 11 - 21:57
So about that great plague:
Sloane believes there was little difference in mortality rates between rich and poor, because they lived so closely packed together. The plague, he is convinced, spread from person to person in the crowded city.
Mortality continued to rise throughout the bitterly cold winter, when fleas could not have survived, and there is no evidence of enough rats.
Black rat skeletons have been found at 14th-century sites, but not in high enough numbers to make them the plague carriers, he said. - The Guardian
Looks like it was our greed in living so close together that did it, and nothing more.
Now we are packing people in even closer. Woe to us if nature finds a way around our defenses.
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Is it your burden that leaves you blood-stained?
No song, no words, will ease your regret.
No drug, no love will let you forget.
For they are but fleeting, like words in the wind -
wild nights, sobered by the dawn.
For they are without meaning - like honourless men,
broken vows laid bare before the dawn.
Like a wild dog ensnared you'll eat yourself free,
to rejoin the shadow of the hunting jaguar.
I once believe I held the answer in the palm of my hand,
and toyed with it like a child.
Worth, not worth dying for.
Worth living aloud
I question everything.
On the brink of self annihilation,
a lightning strike revelation-
how easily that we lie
for shallow love and hollow pride.
How vainly we do attempt
to stem the tide of consciousness,
how easily we are led on the merry dance to our death.
How entranced we are by the fire,
or enslaved to our own desires.
Human, all too Human!
Watch the Naked ape groveling before the stars -
scratching at the sky,
Your trials and tribulations,
they reek of self infatuation - D666 - 18-08-’11 00:23
Repent, dammit. Harumph - 19-08-’11 13:56
prozak, i never thought you had it in you... you can save us from the cancer of modernity man !! YEAH !! cancer-cell - 20-08-’11 02:53