Natural Selection Eliminates And Maybe Maintains, But

Despite Our Very Recent Appearance On The Planet, Humanity Combines Arrogance With Increasing Material Demands, Even As We Become More Numerous. Our Toughness Is A Delusion. Have We The Intelligence And Discipline To Vigilantly Guard Against Our Tendency To Grow Without Limit?

All I Ask Is That We Compare Human Consciousness With Spirochete Ecology.

We Are Unconscious Of Most Of Our Body's Processes, Thank Goodness, Because We'd Screw It Up If We Weren't. The Human Body Is So Complex, With So Many Parts...a System Which Is Far More Complex Than We Can Fully Imagine. The Idea That We Are Consciously Care-taking Such A Large And Mysterious System Is Ludicrous.

We Are All Of Us Walking Communities Of Bacteria. The World Shimmers, A Pointillist Landscape Made Of Tiny Living Beings.

Everybody Knows What A Caterpillar Is, And It Doesn't Look Anything Like A Butterfly.