618
An absence of accounting for natural capital depreciation is particularly true in
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria, all of which
share oil and gas as common, delusional and destructive denominators. It is less
obvious in Oman and Botswana.
27
And most striking about such debt is the nation
of Bhutan, which ranks fifth highest in terms of the internal ratio of national debt to
GDP, with Japan being number 1. Moreover, ineluctably, in absolute numbers, the
human population explosion continues unabated.
Morally bankrupt, the remaining entrails claim the silliest of notions—civilization—to be the rudder and stern of this senseless figment of a shooting star gathering dust in a mindlessness. Where is it going, in so reckless and indifferent a hurry?
To what leviathan of ironies do we owe such selfish and rapacious a storyline?
The view of natural versus unnatural is singularly ambiguous, giving perpetual
birth to every paradox and headache. Many of our kind have ascribed to the colorful deliberations attendant upon the ideal of relativity, whose intellectual architects
were confident that abstraction could materialize in one dimension or another,
between wave, particle, vapor and void. That time and space and all those laws of
energy were not merely the ideas of a certain great ape, but actualities of a sort that
presumably matter, with equally solvent material apparitions; again, a biological
reality of particular relevancy to those who survived the incinerating effects of two
atomic bombs in Japan, or of other gas chambers in World War II.
Debate proves of interest for only a minute or two, before the onslaught of our
internalized boredom with ourselves. Uncertainty is apotheosized as a rallying cry.
Certainty, on the other hand, lost in the labyrinth of connections, as emphasized by
Ludwig Wittgenstein during the last two years of his life, living in Ithaca, New York,
and writing those fragments that would constitute his book On Certainty. “My
name is ‘L.W.’ And if someone were to dispute it, I should straightaway make connexions with innumerable things which make it certain”
28
(Fig. 65.3).
65.5 A Deformative Fixity
Moments and spaces on earth where this odd and disturbing member of an Order
called Primates seeks refuge so as to shuffle the playing cards of its life might be
the behavior of a deformed fixity at the species level.
29
But taking hostage most
27 See “Debt to GDP Ratio by Country 2019,” World Population Review, http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-national-debt/, Accessed September 22, 2019.
28 21.4, 594, On Certainty – Über Gewissheit, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edited by G. E. M
Anscombe And G. H. Von Wright, The Text In German, Über Gewissheit, Translated By Denis
Paul And G.E.M. Anscombe, with An Introduction By Arthur C. Danto, And Twelve Illustrations
By Mel Bochner. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1991.
29 See “The Evolutionary Basis of Some Clinical Disorders of the Human Foot: A Comparative
Survey of the Living Primates,” by T R Olson, M R Seidel, National Library of Medicine, PMID:
6873777, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/107110078300300603, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.
65 The Great Divergence
An absence of accounting for natural capital depreciation is particularly true in
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Nigeria, all of which
share oil and gas as common, delusional and destructive denominators. It is less
obvious in Oman and Botswana.
27
And most striking about such debt is the nation
of Bhutan, which ranks fifth highest in terms of the internal ratio of national debt to
GDP, with Japan being number 1. Moreover, ineluctably, in absolute numbers, the
human population explosion continues unabated.
Morally bankrupt, the remaining entrails claim the silliest of notions—civilization—to be the rudder and stern of this senseless figment of a shooting star gathering dust in a mindlessness. Where is it going, in so reckless and indifferent a hurry?
To what leviathan of ironies do we owe such selfish and rapacious a storyline?
The view of natural versus unnatural is singularly ambiguous, giving perpetual
birth to every paradox and headache. Many of our kind have ascribed to the colorful deliberations attendant upon the ideal of relativity, whose intellectual architects
were confident that abstraction could materialize in one dimension or another,
between wave, particle, vapor and void. That time and space and all those laws of
energy were not merely the ideas of a certain great ape, but actualities of a sort that
presumably matter, with equally solvent material apparitions; again, a biological
reality of particular relevancy to those who survived the incinerating effects of two
atomic bombs in Japan, or of other gas chambers in World War II.
Debate proves of interest for only a minute or two, before the onslaught of our
internalized boredom with ourselves. Uncertainty is apotheosized as a rallying cry.
Certainty, on the other hand, lost in the labyrinth of connections, as emphasized by
Ludwig Wittgenstein during the last two years of his life, living in Ithaca, New York,
and writing those fragments that would constitute his book On Certainty. “My
name is ‘L.W.’ And if someone were to dispute it, I should straightaway make connexions with innumerable things which make it certain”
28
(Fig. 65.3).
65.5 A Deformative Fixity
Moments and spaces on earth where this odd and disturbing member of an Order
called Primates seeks refuge so as to shuffle the playing cards of its life might be
the behavior of a deformed fixity at the species level.
29
But taking hostage most
27 See “Debt to GDP Ratio by Country 2019,” World Population Review, http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-national-debt/, Accessed September 22, 2019.
28 21.4, 594, On Certainty – Über Gewissheit, by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Edited by G. E. M
Anscombe And G. H. Von Wright, The Text In German, Über Gewissheit, Translated By Denis
Paul And G.E.M. Anscombe, with An Introduction By Arthur C. Danto, And Twelve Illustrations
By Mel Bochner. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1991.
29 See “The Evolutionary Basis of Some Clinical Disorders of the Human Foot: A Comparative
Survey of the Living Primates,” by T R Olson, M R Seidel, National Library of Medicine, PMID:
6873777, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/107110078300300603, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.
65 The Great Divergence