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18.5 Fearless Before Infinity
Paradox turns to inherent contradiction, which in turn suggests a pattern of proved
behavior in humans. The empirical evidence is clearly ill-boding for the biosphere.
Ambassadors of that contradiction, each of us, recognize and feel the self-inflicted
wounds, the frenzies from centuries of reasoning faculties that have backfired.
Weather and climate anomalies; every environmentally induced illness; epidemiological factoids indicting our rage for chemical synthesis, production, and massive
distribution; for every toxic extreme, extractive regime, and syndrome of slaughter,
such is the fate of thought in the human commons. Hence, the startling statistics
Fig. 18.2 Mahavira detail from Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca. 1470s. (Private Collection). (Photo ©
M.C.Tobias)
18 A Cave at Taranga
18.5 Fearless Before Infinity
Paradox turns to inherent contradiction, which in turn suggests a pattern of proved
behavior in humans. The empirical evidence is clearly ill-boding for the biosphere.
Ambassadors of that contradiction, each of us, recognize and feel the self-inflicted
wounds, the frenzies from centuries of reasoning faculties that have backfired.
Weather and climate anomalies; every environmentally induced illness; epidemiological factoids indicting our rage for chemical synthesis, production, and massive
distribution; for every toxic extreme, extractive regime, and syndrome of slaughter,
such is the fate of thought in the human commons. Hence, the startling statistics
Fig. 18.2 Mahavira detail from Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca. 1470s. (Private Collection). (Photo ©
M.C.Tobias)
18 A Cave at Taranga