Natural versus Unnatural noise?
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
basildestinySo this isn't my original thought at all. I needed a few pieces of logic before I could connect the dots, but once I had the pieces that dots connected on their own. I've been studying logical thought and epistemology. This one jumped out at me.
Given the truth of evolutionary theory and the idea that human beings share an ancestral tree with all other forms of life:
1. A sprawling suburb is every bit as natural as a prairie dog town, an ant hill, or a wasps' nest.
2. Lake Powell's Glen Canyon Dam is every bit as natural as a beaver's dam.
3. Traffic backed up on I-10 is every bit as natural as big horn sheep in line on a craggy, alpine pass in Glacier National Park.
4. A man working at a desk in a cubicle is every bit as natural as a salmon swimming up an Alaskan stream to spawn.
5. A construction worker obliterating a stretch of pavement with a jackhammer makes every bit as natural a sound as a cricket or a coyote doing whatever it is that crickets and coyotes do.
In other words, from an evolutionary perspective, the common sense idea that man-made things aren't natural isn't just false, it's unintelligible.
And therefore my pants are natural so being nekkid is not my natural state.
~Bas
Given the truth of evolutionary theory and the idea that human beings share an ancestral tree with all other forms of life:
1. A sprawling suburb is every bit as natural as a prairie dog town, an ant hill, or a wasps' nest.
2. Lake Powell's Glen Canyon Dam is every bit as natural as a beaver's dam.
3. Traffic backed up on I-10 is every bit as natural as big horn sheep in line on a craggy, alpine pass in Glacier National Park.
4. A man working at a desk in a cubicle is every bit as natural as a salmon swimming up an Alaskan stream to spawn.
5. A construction worker obliterating a stretch of pavement with a jackhammer makes every bit as natural a sound as a cricket or a coyote doing whatever it is that crickets and coyotes do.
In other words, from an evolutionary perspective, the common sense idea that man-made things aren't natural isn't just false, it's unintelligible.
And therefore my pants are natural so being nekkid is not my natural state.
~Bas
