Souls of Black!

If I say I've done my bit for the environment this week, then you should just accept that, and carry on as before. I can't tell you what it was that I did, that might just make a difference in some small way, but suffice it to say that I stung others into action, which is of course better than having to physically do anything dirty myself! I simply laid down the gauntlet, and others picked it up.

I don't think it'll save the planet or anything, but at least it will raise awareness, and while I have been a bit scathing about climate change and so on, in the past, this isn't to do with climate change. It's more to do with what a filthy species we are. Is that suitably cryptic for you? It is for me, I think I've confused myself!

I concede that I have bigger concerns right now than the future of the planet, and maybe that's selfish. But, hey, there's a few billion others who spend as much time dwelling on the subject as I do! If the planet's already destroyed, if mankind has already pushed the planet to the brink, then I along with the rest of you will face the consequences. It's as simple as that. No one person can make a difference, I said that before, and it's true. We can however, by our actions, feel as though we're doing something worthwhile, and that in itself is useful, if for no other reason than to have an excuse to fall back upon when a blame culture develops. I looked into your soul and this is what I saw!

We Are Finding Who We Are!

I see the great debate on the origins of modern man are once again raging fiercely. The proponents of the "Out Of Africa" theory have a new enemy, the "Out Of Asia" party. Of course the latter have been undermined by the former through the former declaring that an Asiatic origin might simply have been a stopover en route from Africa.

At the same time the analysis of many newly discovered skull samples, seems to be indicating that the origins of the human species was in fact far from linear, as had previously been thought, with species diverging and converging like the branches of a tree, or more like a family tree to be precise, which it is really! A giant family tree all the way back to whatever it was that we spawned from, if indeed that was what happened.

I think there are great discoveries to be made regarding human origins, but even greater discoveries concerning how human kind has got to be where it is right now. Unfortunately, there's just has much chance we'll self-destruct before we find those answers. It seems distinctly odd to me that it's always the baser levels of society who call the shots and who hold power. Truly intelligent people have no interest in warring or religion, the source of all intolerance. But nobody seems to want to hear ideas which promote the interests of the future of humanity.