adulthood
August 2008 
In your view, what life stage is the human family in?
Posted on Jul 7th, 2008
by 
pookietooth
pookietooth
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for June 29, 2008:
I don't like the question about whether or not humanity has grown up, because I don't think being grown up is a linear progression, and because in our society growing up means getting knocked down and beaten into submission, either literally or figuratively, until an individual has no true will to live or knowledge of what they really want. And also because if you look at a species' population changes over time, all species go extinct eventually, but the rest may be totally random -- from abundant to scarce repeatedly up until near the end. I would wonder whether or not we are near our end, except that I don't think anyone could say for sure until it's happened. Are we nearing extinction? I don't know but it sure seems that way some of the time.
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