tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post8700644675273361524..comments2023-10-21T01:41:25.251-07:00Comments on Invictus: Ernest Becker on Power & Human NatureValtinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07427976389098964420noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-70499549311190257342011-12-07T20:39:27.057-08:002011-12-07T20:39:27.057-08:00@Anonymous:
"Human history certainly has bee...@Anonymous:<br /><br />"Human history certainly has been one long pageant of (tragic-) comedy then, hasn't it?"<br /><br />Yes, you could say that. I tend to prefer Engels comment that human progress has been driven onwards over a mountain of skulls.<br /><br />Or James Joyce: "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."Valtinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427976389098964420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5048559001654820158.post-30496648239744839702011-12-06T09:25:40.959-08:002011-12-06T09:25:40.959-08:00Imagined sanction from a "higher power" ...Imagined sanction from a "higher power" for engaging in coercion and killing, you say, is the defining human illusion, at which Nature simply laughs? Wow... Human history certainly has been one long pageant of (tragic-) comedy then, hasn't it? But if the climate-change folks are right, it looks like Nature is finally getting rather bored with the show and is getting ready to turn off the floor lights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com