tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post111939897330807075..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: Option d)BadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119542225449443532005-06-23T08:57:00.000-07:002005-06-23T08:57:00.000-07:00"I guess I could say, well, the answer if most peo..."I guess I could say, well, the answer if most people don't give a shit is to not give a shit, too. Of course, that way leads to piles of dead bodies, but hey, they're not the dead bodies of me or mine, so who gives a shit?<BR/><BR/>-- Badtux the "Why give a shit?" Penguin"<BR/><BR/>The problem with that is that if such a situation prevails, the dead bodies could very suddenly start including "me and mine."<BR/><BR/>Intelligence, at all levels down to the neural net of a jellyfish and on down to the hormonal cues emitted by bacteria, evolved precisely to give life forms a sort of map and model of the environment they are in, so they can individually outwit death and survive long enough to reproduce.<BR/><BR/>When danger comes from equally intelligent beings the dangers get very unpredictable. There is a lot to be said for keeping one's head down. But this could be more dangerous thgan choosing a side and backing it. <BR/><BR/>Tough call.Mark H. Foxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09742816212489965058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119422035261237962005-06-21T23:33:00.000-07:002005-06-21T23:33:00.000-07:00Yes, I have indeed read some Robert Anton Wilson, ...Yes, I have indeed read some Robert Anton Wilson, who also has a most entertaining web site BTW if you have not wandered by it lately. I am not, however, a big fan of his work, since I prefer my fiction to have "plot". Of course, RAW's stuff might not be fiction :-).<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the Fictional PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119409929416513662005-06-21T20:12:00.000-07:002005-06-21T20:12:00.000-07:00Whoops, probably should've attributed that long-as...Whoops, probably should've attributed that long-ass quote. It's from <I>Schrodinger's Cat.</I> Not quite as good as Wilson's opus, <I>Illuminatus,</I> but a fine book nonetheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119407286770314692005-06-21T19:28:00.000-07:002005-06-21T19:28:00.000-07:00Pope Horatio Tyrannosaurus Nixon RexWhen I read th...Pope Horatio Tyrannosaurus Nixon Rex<BR/><BR/>When I read that post, I was thinking of Wilson myself. It's easier to understand politics when you understand poo flinging.NewsBlog 5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/16000509600519901799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119406376620763192005-06-21T19:12:00.000-07:002005-06-21T19:12:00.000-07:00Have you read any Robert Anton Wilson, Penguin? If...Have you read any Robert Anton Wilson, Penguin? If not, you should. He's the person who first brought the Carlin quote to our attention, and his own stuff is quite entertaining. For instance:<BR/><BR/>"Benny had actually read Darwin once, in college a long time ago, and had heard of sciences like ethology and ecology, but the facts of evolution had never really registered on him. He never thought of himself as a primate. He never realized his friends and associates were primates. Above all, he never understood that the alpha males of Unistat were typical leaders of primate bands. As a result of this inability to see the obvious, Benny was constantly alarmed and terrified by the behavior of himself, his friends and associates and especially the alpha males of the pack. Since he didn't know it was ordinary primate behavior, it seemed <I>just awful</I> to him.<BR/><BR/>"Since a great deal of primate behavior was considered just awful, most of the domesticated primates spent most of their time trying to conceal what they were doing. <BR/><BR/>"Some of the primates <I>got caught</I> by other primates. All of the primates lived in dread of getting caught. <BR/><BR/>"Those who got caught were called <I>no-good shits.</I> <BR/><BR/>"This metaphor was deep in primate psychology because primates mark their territories with excretions, and sometimes they threw excretions at each other when disputing over territories."<BR/><BR/>......<BR/><BR/>The Vietnam War, like most primate squabbles, was about territory....if they had been wild primates, they would have all excreted in the disputed area and maybe thrown excretions at each other; being domesticated primates, they made ink excretions on paper and threw metal and checmicals at each other."<BR/><BR/>Sound like any war you can think of? Any species, for that matter? Man, you're so lucky you're a penguin and not a stupid-ass primate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-1119400165808081652005-06-21T17:29:00.000-07:002005-06-21T17:29:00.000-07:00Bravo.Bravo.NewsBlog 5000https://www.blogger.com/profile/16000509600519901799noreply@blogger.com