mschmidt ([personal profile] mschmidt) wrote in [personal profile] degringolade 2021-06-06 05:49 pm (UTC)

Consider the beautiful flower in the photo you have shared.

Here is a human:

“Oh … what a beautiful thing. Wow ….
I wonder: what are all those little stalk things in the center for?
I wonder: how did such a thing come into being?
I wonder: what it is made of?
I wonder: how does it grow?
I wonder: could I make a profit selling these?”

The next thing you know, the world includes biology, physics, and chemistry, and biological, nuclear, and chemical weapons of mass destruction (WMD) … and the future survival of the flower depends on the success of a strategy called Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

If the answer to the question, “how did it come into being?” were to be: by magic, what the answer suggests, is: stop being so fucking curious. The problem, as you hint, is that in our culture, such an uncurious person is considered dumb.

I hope that you can figure out something amazing that might help industrialized mankind change its ways - and are able to do so fairly quickly. The furthest I can get, is the realization that there is unlikely to be a folly greater than mankind anywhere in the universe. This is a comforting thought, but not helpful to others. If two people are watching a play, and one thinks it is a tragedy and the other thinks it is a comedy, it does not help the sad one that the other one is upbeat. Hopefully, you can exceed my results on the path you are taking.

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