In case you missed it on juergen_hubert’s Journal (which is pretty damn likely, since he’s over at the okc): Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism by Aaron Diaz
In response to Too good not to share by juergen_hubert:
Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism
Excerpt:
Here we see Klomp’s predictions descend from unsupported speculation to sheer fantasy. His recent cave painting, The Quickening is Near, explains in great detail different methods we may employ to transform words into some kind of visible format, but all are incomplete. The simple fact remains that words are sounds, not pictures, and no amount of wishing will change that. Even if such a thing were possible, it is doubtful that many would wish to store their memories externally. This author, for one, would prefer it if his memories stayed in his head and not on some cold, lifeless bark.
My favorite excerpt: Do we really want to live in a society populated by geriatric 27-year-olds? In living so long and spending so much time ‘thinking,’ do we not also run the risk of becoming a cold, passionless race incapable of experiencing our two emotions (fear and not fear)?
This guy and Randall Munroe
(the guy behind xkcd) are doing the real work…
*sigh*
Sometime I feel just like lil’ Ollie Funt in the shadow of too many great Opuses… (if you know what that means without looking it up, I <3 you a little bit forever…)
Tags: Aaron Diaz, Dresden Codak, Ollie Funt, Randall Munroe, web comics, xkcd
