nished, was just nature, red in tooth and claw. It was in chaos, in a state of primeval anarchy. So, the story goes: the world was made for man, and man was made to rule it, to fix it and put it in order. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I-The world defied man. Storms tore at his dwellings, jungles grew in his fields, animals and insects bit at him and ate his food. The world would not submit to man's rule, so man had to conquer it. s-Man conquering nature is something else that you hear fifty times a day. As the Takers see it: man had a destiny and he had to fulfill this destiny. The gods gave man a choice, a brief life of glory, or a long uneventful life in obscurity. And the Takers chose a brief life of glory. And we just shrug and say, 'destruction of the world is the price that we must pay to have indoor plumbing and automobiles'. Yes, and what I am saying is that the price you've paid is not the price to become human. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------s-Man's destiny was to conquer the world, and he has, almost. The problem is that man's conquest of the world, has itself devastated the world. Its hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse. Only one thing can save us. We have to increase our mastery of the world until our rule over it becomes absolute. Then when we are in complete control, everything will be fine. We will have fusion power, feed the population using a square centimeter of land per person and control the weather in any way we like. We will manipulate the environment the way a programmer manipulates a computer. And if we manage to do this, if we finally manage to make ourselves the absolute rulers of the world then nothing can stop us. Then we move into the Star Trek era. Man moves to outer space to conquer and rul...
