civilized ku # 212-13 ~ from one extreme to the other
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 09:03AM 
Ripping it up • click to embiggenYou just gotta luv it - my Saturday evening was filled with little ditties such as this from the Asylum Street Spankers' - the most righteously-twisted, tightly-wound, raggedy-ass, brilliant and talented music-making, beer-drinkin' sums-a-bitches on the planet - love song:
If you love me,
you'll sleep on the wet spot,
buy my tampons,
with your food stamps
Then, my Monday evening, at the NY Academy of Sciences, was filled with little ditties such as this from Richard Dawkins - a British ethologist, zoologist, Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologist / theorist, and an outspoken atheist:
At the age of three and a half, the Taung child was eaten by an eagle. We know this because damage marks to the eye sockets of the fossil are identical to marks made by modern eagles on modern monkeys as they rip out their eyes. Poor little Taung child, shrieking on the wind as you were borne aloft by the aquiline fury, you would have found no comfort in your destined fame, two and a half million years on, as the type specimen of Australopithecus africanus. Poor Taung mother, weeping in the Pliocene.
Taken together, the 2 diverse experiences were more than enough to stretch one's mind to consider so many possibilities. But based on this quote from Dawkins ....
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
... I am inclined to think that the Spankers and their music may just be a viable response to Dawkins' notion of a "universe (with) nothing but blind pitiless indifference."
Reader Comments (1)
Darn, some people have all the fun!