Herr Tim wrote:joshsolberg wrote:I think the worst act ever perpetrated by man is the first use of a tool, hundreds of thousands of years ago, that forever convinced us that we could somehow be separate from the things that surround us. From that point on, we were fucked.
Very true. My thoughts exactly.
Man, that's really weird. Some months ago I was thinking about the difference between man, and man's environment, and how they relate. And I just realized that any form of device, from simple clothing made of hides on up to computers, would alienate us from our surroundings.
So, I told this girl, "Let's just go out in the woods naked and kiss, as far from any invention of man as possible. And let's be blindfolded, so we can't even see each other and get distracted." She was down with it.
I thought I was going to have this primordial re-awakening of consciousness and just, you know, have this absolutely transcendent experience. It wasn't like that. It was dark and cold, and since we were blindfolded I kept worrying that we'd run into a tree. The kiss was absolutely unextraordinary. And the environment that surrounds us? A bunch of crap, really. No unity. No fireworks. Gaia is a trifling punk.
So this girl actually gets mad at me because I tell her, "That which surrounds us is nothing. There is no magic in your kiss." It wasn't personal. I'm sure there was no magic in my kiss either. But women are like that.
