Open Thread - 05-23-25 - The Conqueror and the Conquered
Submitted by JtC on Fri, 05/23/2025 - 9:44am
Today I'm going to stray from my usual political pontifications and tell a tale of the ageless struggle between man and nature. To wit, man, a supposedly superior being equipped with cognitive percipience, and nature, a creature with a supposedly lesser developed encephalon with not much more than a primal awareness for survival.
It's a tale about the natural evolution of that being which emerged from the primordial watery stew of teeming eukaryotes cells many millennia ago, and, with time, developed arms and legs and learned to walk upright as the crown of all creation.
It's a tale of vastly superior intelligence equipped with well adapted opposable digit dexterity, and how that superiority can be tested by a natural survival adaptation of a supposedly inferior lower life form.
But most of all it's a tale of wit and the witless, of consequence and kharma, of ego and humility, of the conqueror and the conquered.
