“Perhaps the only objective measure of success in an evolutionary sense is survivability and on that basis, the cockroach and the shark come out well. They have been around for a long time — about 400 million years. It is also claimed that if man ever created a nuclear hell-on-Earth the best, and perhaps only, survivors on land would be cockroaches. They would carry forward the banner of future evolution, perhaps culminating in a few hundred million years in another kind of intelligent creature, perhaps one that knew how to survive with its intelligence.”

“Karl Marx stated in Das Kapital that “capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction”, but what he claimed applied to capitalism probably applies in a wider sense. For example, many of the world’s most beautiful places have attracted tourists, whose physical needs have been met by building concrete and glass hotels which by their very nature detract from the beauty that led to their construction.
Perhaps mankind has evolved with too large a brain — which will become the agency of its own destruction. Mankind, as a species, could have existed indefinitely with bows and arrows, windmills and the Black Death, but it may not be able to survive very long with nuclear weapons, coal-fired power stations and antibiotics.”

Îl vor înţelege cu adevărat poate doar o mână de oameni, alţii vor crede că l-au înţeles iar alţii se vor preface că l-au înţeles. Şi chiar dacă va fi ambalat frumos, cu comparaţii ilustrative tot inaccesibil ne va fi unora. Un exemplu.

Poate juniorii de azi şi de mâine vor fi mai pregătiţi.