February 4th, 2008
A Frog Waving
There is a species of frog, now extinct except in captivity, that has learned how to gesture. Should the disappearance of amphibians serve as a warning to us?
Transcriptorial: In those final days we learned / how to warn our friends / but not how to save them.
In the days before we learned how to save them, but great smelling hair and smooth skin was so much more important.
It should, but even when many of us disappear we may not take the hint.
So true.
It should, but sadly, it won’t.
It’s weird how we have this great ability as a species to imagine the future, and an equally great ability to put the future out of our minds.
an inability to put the future (or possible futures) out of your mind leads to either suicidal depression or paralysis, depending.