Wednesday, December 8
Part IV
Even though if you look at their original sources of their stories, and the original content, they're very similar, very very similar: be nice to each other, get along with each other, don't take crap that's not yours and so on, good common sense tips for living together with few resources in small bands or tribes. Then a better system comes along and we co-opt the old systems, and then a better system comes along and we co-opt both of the older ones, and so on and so on, and then we're at the shopping mall, decorated in non-offensive holiday greenery, boughs and wreaths, and lights, lots of pretty pretty lights (because on these, at least for now, we who are somewhere and we who are nowhere, and even those of straddling the edge of nowhere, can all agree, since it goes back to the original nature-based systems that's hardwired into the nervous systems of the various descendants of all those apes) and we're buying stuff with batteries not included and sending paper-based missives to friends and family with little one-page recaps of what happened this year...
