Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Crank linguistics/reply (18)

Sarcasm aside, I do resonate slightly with this position. Humans are creatures of fear. We seem (at least in anything I can see) to gravitate to the frightening instead of the happy. And yet our lives are far better than they were in some "basic" ways. We do have more time to think, to dream, to wonder - though we also have more time to argue, to complain, to fight. We have more time to be creative, cook for taste not survival, wear fashion not need based, etc.

And having spent the better part of two months "digging" (i was an unaffiliated undergrad, i didn't get to do anything remotely important or difficult) at chaco canyon and saying "this is how we lived", i really appreciated that next micky d's and my local safeway.

I also have wondered if we are always going to create the next big "thing" to scare us. y2k, global warming, solar storms. it's not that these aren't real, it's that we thrive in them, if that makes any sense.