Tuesday, January 21, 2003

Kel just finished Kavalier and

Kel just finished Kavalier and Clay and I’m bound to start reading it soon.  In the spirit of such things I’ve been looking through my old comic books lately - there’s only two, The Dark Knight Returns and The Watchmen.  So when this article came to my attention it struck me as very poignant.  My main problem with the “humanists” is that they seem to portray anything that’s not human as “animal,” and endorse the negative imputation with which that word has been saddled.  That seems a shortsighted and reactionary position, and I’m surprised such professional visionaries would assume it.  I’m inclined to think that our evolutionary successors should be entitled to whatever we think we are entitled to ourselves.  To do otherwise would be to thwart the very design of evolution.  Then again, it’s not like it would be the first time we’ve done that…

Also, by lowering trade tarrifs, theoretically you’re expanding your product marketing potential - lower cost means additional economy of importation and perhaps a bigger market share by mere virture of ubiquity.  It’s bad business and bad philosophy.  Ceci n’est pas un pipe, guys - we’re dealing with comicbook characters.  Can’t we put these resources into something more productive?