[-empyre-] What?

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Carla quoted Jacoby:

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Art² has no importance; it is
life that counts. Art is the history of the years to come. It is the
creation of the most gigantic collective work in history: the conquest
 of the earth, the conquest of freedom by and for all men.

1963 Mensaje en el Di Tella, Roberto Jacoby
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Conquest of the Earth, eh? Like any conquest, it shows a complete and
dismissive disregard for the conquered. And in the Great War between
"Man" and "Nature" I can assure you all that "Nature" cares even less
about "Man" than "Man" does of "Nature", and in the great struggle
between "Man" and "Nature":

"NATURE" WINS EVERY TIME. NO EXCEPTIONS.

If the conquest of nature is the price we pay for Art, then I humbly
suggest we abandon Art before Nature abandons us.

That quote by Jacoby is one of the most offensive and arrogant bits of
errant ego-centric suicidal idiocy I have read in a very long time.
But, hey - Better living through chemistry!

As humanity stands at the precipice of extinction, sesshu in LA typed:

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imagination contends with illusion and barks, disconsolate squeak.
body parts, you name it, they invented tags and codes: states.
sneeze all you want to, pointed verbs sticking out of every pore.
agriculture in california exacerbates a green edge on water-use.
i saw something the other day, it was a woman on her cellphone.
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Good move, butch, let me know how that works out for you. 

Alliette? Christina? I'm sure you all have something sensible to say
about all this...

HW