Today's muse, war. There certainly is tremendous violence in our universe. Are our vicious internecine wars simply an expression of some universal congruence? A species skill used to annihilate all species competition, but then turned upon ourselves. Perhaps evolution doing an "oops", that mix was a bit too strong, let's try again. It would be unsettling to think that our species is just a failed evolutionary experiment that will soon implode.
Is war the remnants of our own evolutionary big bang?
This is the first sentence I wrote on this topic, and I was surprised to see it come out of my own hand. I debated deleting it because it seems so ridiculous, but a sculptor acquaintance of mine told me a story about how he stopped destroying what he thought were his mistakes, because much to his surprise, others often thought that his mistakes were his best work. We truly don't seem to know what we are making most of the time. So it stays here, unadorned making no sense to me, at least for now.
Is war the remnants of our own evolutionary big bang?
This is the first sentence I wrote on this topic, and I was surprised to see it come out of my own hand. I debated deleting it because it seems so ridiculous, but a sculptor acquaintance of mine told me a story about how he stopped destroying what he thought were his mistakes, because much to his surprise, others often thought that his mistakes were his best work. We truly don't seem to know what we are making most of the time. So it stays here, unadorned making no sense to me, at least for now.
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