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hekatologos 0239
Martin Helick (rmhelick@telerama.lm.com)
7 Jul 1996 14:26:47 -0400
0239 Molann an obair an saor (The work commends the craftsman)
Because we are inseperable from the society that has molded us, we
impart its identity to everything that we do. What then will future
generations say about us when the ruins of our civilization are ex-
humed? They will find no tomb of Tutankamen, no Acropolis, not even
a Pompeii, only decomposed landfills and collapsed oil domes and a
network of highways girdling the landscape after all need for them
has passed. Our vanity would like them to think of of us as we like
think of ourselves: as a great civilization gone mildly astray. But
the evidence, alas, says otherwise, and the vision is more likely
to be that of a nameless and irresponsible horde, as nomadic as
reindeer, as untidy as beavers, as voracious as grizzly bears.
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r.m.helick...hekatologos...gravitas....http://www.lm.com/~rmhelick
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