creature of enormous importance to the gods. But this part of the story gives no hint of their intentions toward him. They must have some special destiny in mind for him, but that is not revealed here. Tell me, what is the premise of this story? That the world was made for man. And as such? That the world belongs to man and we can do what we damn well please with it. Exactly. That is what has been happening here for the past ten thousand years. You have been doing what you damn well please with it. And, you hear this fifty times a day, people talking about OUR oceans, OUR environment, OUR wildlife. Not as if it relates to us but as if it is our possession; our birthright! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I-I want you to tell me the middle of the story. s- Ok. The world was made for man, but it took him a long, long time to figure that out. For nearly three million years he lived as though the world was made for jellyfish. What do you mean? I mean that man lived as if he were no better than any other creature. He lived at the mercy of the world, without having any control over the environment. This was a problem for him because in this condition, man could not truly be man. He needed to develop, and in order to develop he needed to stay in one place. This was not possible without first devising some way to not run out of food. Thus was born agriculture. With agriculture, man was finally released from the constrains of the hunter-gatherer way of life and could make some real progress. And from this part of the story what can we say about man's purpose? We can say that man's destiny was to live a life better than a jellyfish. We can say that man's destiny was to accomplish great things. It is more than that. What does the myth tells us? Imagine yourself on the earth several thousand years ago. Uh, I would rather not. It's dangerous down there; its a jungle. And, without man, the world was unfi...
