Baltimorei

[catherine]

The thrust of my argument has been that the first function of any political system has to be survival, and that if it fails there nothing else much matters.

I still don't get it…

There have been many tribes that lasted for well beyond 200 years! 200 years is a blip. It is not a marker for cultural superiority.

If we kill off all the bees because we poison them with pesticides, is that a good thing? We conquered the bees, so we're the superior beings?

And to that analogy: if we keep up acidifying, deforesting, eroding, polluting (the intended and unintended consequence of capitalism), we will be the culture that is extinguished and therefore inferior, and Mother Nature will have had the last laugh and will have reigned supreme. And we can etch our allegiance to capitalism on our tombstones.