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I am not so sure that humanity exploding on earth will end in rubble, but that is a possibility, and it will take our work to keep it from happening. We do not have a long enough view, for the earth is much older and may just take our explosion in stride. We may imagine we have more power than we do, thinking we can end the planet or at least life on the planet. We might only be able to wipe out our species and a few thousand more. But if we see (not just look) and hear (not just listen), we might discern our way.

:- Doug.

Primary elections do not bring up the strongest candidate—the system rewards tactics more than long view philosophy and statesmanship. The candidates and their handlers are guessing what will work—and deliberately trying to sway with sound bites and 30 second commercials; we have a great deal of demagoguery. Thoughtfulness is lost; our own humanity the loser. We are lessened by the TV-centered campaigning: not just as a people, not just as individuals, but as a species. More and more we vote not with our minds but with wallets. And the wallets have their own supra-human agenda.

:- Doug.

Humanity an
explosion—spreading, spreading
on the earth—and then?

:- Doug.