U.S. ENERGY via Eric Lee

Inspired by “The most ever fossil fuels burned in one year was burned in 2023, and how’s that mitigating of climate change working for you?” —Eric Lee

Of interest: Klaatu might have to breed us after she imposes her population “bottleneck.”

The silver fox domestication experiment:

A domesticated fox can tell us much about “The People Who Understand.” (The People Who Understand is the name of a tribe in the distant future.)

Breeding for the “interconnected/interdependent ‘race.’”

Buhubaquwa means, in your language, The People Who Understand.

Domesticated to a certain kind of “Nature” (bred/designed/determined) or evolved to a particular type of Nature (natural selection.) What pressures made MTI humans? Why do chimps and bonobos behave like they do? Did Great Nature randomly deem it so through its complex systems and physical laws? Great Nature above Klaatu. The Law that determines all laws—the fabric, the matrix, the fractal medium, dark this, dark that.

Behavior impacts gene expression across generations: culture changes genes, nature/culture.

We learn more about Neanderthals as new tools allow us to access new lines of evidence, but we still don’t know why they disappeared.

It’s fascinating that there are multiple lines of evidence for probable causes of our extinction. We seemingly ignore them in favor of the exciting hyper-stimuli of MTI (modern techno-industrial civilization).

A friend pointed out that in geological time, magma will recycle all e-waste (subduction is a significant geological process involving plate tectonics). Don’t worry about nano-plastics in the water. Endocrine disrupters? Don’t make me laugh. In time, the supernova will sort it all out. Or maybe God wills something else.

Well, well, and I will die someday. Unbelievable!

Oh, and I forgot to mention that there is a black hole barrelling toward the Milky Way as I type.

How long can your average “bad” Shawnee live in the wilderness, alone, once ostracised by the band?

“One must cast out a bad boy before he breeds. It is a great shame to the tribe and the nation to let Running Rant breed. If Running Rant can’t understand, repeat from memory, and behave according to the lessons of his elders by the age of 13, he will cause all manner of disorders to his place and people. But we don’t kill children. He may yet learn from Great Nature what is required to be a man. If he attempts to return to the band before 20 Kùsh ko (years), he will run the gauntlet four times and be banished. If he attempts to return, he will be killed.” —Chief Watershed.

Law and Order Among Eighteenth-Century Cherokee, Great Plains, Central Prairie, and Woodland Indians —Ken Traisman

We are casting our species out of Great Nature.

Many of us today enjoy celebrating MTI, are proud of our accomplishments, and revel in dreams of the great hereafter. TESCREAL or Heaven, where nothing ever happens.

A few of us are ashamed.

We live and come what may.