The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

The vices of her virtues

Elizabeth Warren is a four-square, all-around liberal.


There is a theory alive and well in the field that the Harappa and the Maya Indian civilizations collapsed from environmental carelessness and overly intensive use of the soil.

So little were they interested in sacrifice for future generations that they left no more behind than Ozymandias.

People so little regarded the good of others that slavery existed in all societies including all major civilizations until the mid and late 19th Century.

The 20th Century was no better, though the forms of man’s disregard for man have been not quite the same.

How likely is it humanity will really make the vast sacrifices leaving fossil fuels unused in the ground would entail, including the massive suffering and loss of life, not even for the sake of other living humans and not even so that future people will be better off, but so that in the future there will be better off people?

And what will future people ever do for you?

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