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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 10, 2012 - 06:35pm PT
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Hmmm..."my message."
Same as this old vulture's ever was, I suppose.
Do the right thing.
Mr. Abbey, another old vulture, talked with us in this 1982 interview.
This covers just about all my major bitches about how humans conduct their affairs and husband their earth.
I am not as sanguine about our future as a race, but the earth will endure and prosper without our sorry asses.
He looks like Americano Fidel, doesn't he? And his voice and manner and quick-wittedness are as seductive as Fidel probably imagined himself during his celebrated marathon speeches.
He said we are all our own guru, asserting that he was neither anyone's guru besides his own. I am in total harmony.
He was humble enough to say his role was that of a writer, nothing more, except he was a concerned father in his own estimation; and humble enought to say he was no prophet.
"I don't have any hope of personal immortality..." takes care of that question which concerns every one on the planet: What happens next?
Like the sly bastard clever word guy he was, he has a smirky quality here that disclaims prophecy.
You need to respect his acumen as much as his entertainment value as a writer, which is through the roof, as far as I'm concerned.
My personal Abbey all-timer was his big-ass novel A Fool's Progress. I always wanted to run a bookstore/gunshop.
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Q: Are the United States of America still or were we ever "the biggest environmentally-sensitive nation on Earth, or as I suspect are we just humbugs?
Edit before first reactionary post: Don't tell me you can answer the question fairly without listening to what Mr. Abbey has to say. "Oh, I can tell you that without hearing a thirty-minute harangue." It's no harangue, far from it, it's a rational appeal presented in a thoughful manner. ST quality, even...LOL
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 10, 2012 - 07:01pm PT
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SAVE THE PINGUINOS!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 10, 2012 - 07:02pm PT
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Nice. We are climbing an impossibly unstable sandy slope- one step up, two back. He does look like Fidel. I love Abbey's writing and Fidel's perseverance.
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beef supreme
climber
the west
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Sep 10, 2012 - 07:31pm PT
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Couldn't watch the vids due to slow net-
but, if you're interested in some very good, fairly 'reported' information on the welfare of the planet and it's abundance of species check out David Quammen's book about species collapse (among other things- extinction and biogeography) called Song of the Dodo. (I may have his last name spelled wrong and the title a little off). Not very heartening, really- and he wrote it quite a few years ago.
The way humans have been doing it the last generation or two... doesn't leave much room for any other options. Something very surprising that I learned from that Song of the Dodo is that we're basically in a time period of species loss that is on par with the extinction of the dinosaurs- crazy to think about.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 10, 2012 - 08:14pm PT
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Doctor Pasani would like to say that saving one flock of vultures is worth more than saving any old whale.
Guru-vy sh#t, guys!!!
Coo-coo-ka-choo!!!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 20, 2012 - 01:20pm PT
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http://www.whentechfails.com/
http://www.matstein.com
I was just talking to Rick Sylvester and he mailed me this web link. Whereupon I stubbed my toe and took it as a prophetic/omenic prod to send it on. You need to be prepared for crises to come, especially you homeowners. Biblical proportions are what you can't do a thing about, but if you are prepared nonetheless, little crises (like Rick's little face-plant he took yesterday while clearing away pine needles so Armageddon won/t burn down his house) can be more easily dealt with.
"I just said good luck."--BD
Is it my imagination, or do the bulk of believers in end-time-coming-BS seem to be God-fearing, salt-of-the-earth types who are homeowners? Business owners?
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Sep 20, 2012 - 01:58pm PT
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hrumph, appropriate that my lights went out this AM just as I was leaving for work. Spent some time wondering which lights (2 way switches) were on, so that when the power came back on and I was gone stuff would be turned off. Maybe Sylvester was saying that he had tied in with him, nice granite rock climbing shot of the author on the link.
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