weve got to realize that as violent and unpredictable as nature is, it gave birth to us. if it wasnt this way, we would never have come about. it wouldnt be an 'advance' in nature to remove humans since it would inevitably repeat the process of forming us again either here or somewhere else. i mean, the greatest advance fish came up with was to crawl on land to become birds... which prey on fish when they need to. most tribal cultures had an initiation process by which their kids became adults. they would have to go on a dangerous hunt or something, but now they just go to college. it forms the consumer class which is kind of like a primordial soup. they are a class of maintenance which allows life to continue but stays pretty much the same for their whole lives. they have no desire to take the kinds of risks other people do... on the other hand, risk takers who stay that way for their whole lives come up with the kinds of experiments which make life worthwhile though they themselves often do not reproduce. the idea of settling down for a normal life is repugnant to them in some cases. anyway, the native americans were conquered by the europeans. the only reason the europeans were in that position was because of their proximity to a variety of other cultures which forced/enabled them to do so whereas the natives were more or less isolated. this was the only way of carrying the natives into a unified modern age... however, the only way for us to survive in it is to learn some lessons from the natives and make it a place where they can exist. iniquity always results in bloodshed and evolution tends toward greater equality. in other words, as adventurers, anarchists, whatever, we are in fact leading the charge to make civilization more civilized. still, at least some people are going to have to contribute to future generations in order for any of our ideas to have an impact. whatever, these things go in cycles. idk, fuck ive been reading a lot of history lately so its good to lay some thoughts out there. interesting topic yall.