Not fake, and not enviable. The brain, as I understand it, has lots of very good reasons for letting things go. Her mind is completely crowded, and I bet it's no picnic.
@inti: Mm, yes. Watching the bombing of Baghdad on television was the first time I had a visceral reaction to anything like that. The tears...they just happened. I don't consider myself particularly maudlin or whatever, but it was like my first grown-up, fully-aware response to what was, in flat truth, scores of innocents being annihilated. Really f*cked up moment.
@mmm: I don't think I understand why it matters. To each his own on this one, but I don't get the outrage. Maybe the term rain forest is just a little more descriptive.
While destruction of rainforests is terrible, I don't quite understand "surprise" at an example of nature bouncing back when given the room. Have you met Nature? Pushing and adapting and getting in through cracks and being resilient and generally nature-y is sort of its stock in trade.
I mean, we're doing our best to trample it, but does anybody doubt that within a couple hundred years of humanity's extinction, nature will be all, "Who?"
"Confusingly similar"? Like how I sometimes mistake birds for doorknobs?
Remax could put it another way: Our argument is that people are laughably stupid and can't read or see colors. For their premise to work, that's what they'd have to essentially mean.
I mean, we're doing our best to trample it, but does anybody doubt that within a couple hundred years of humanity's extinction, nature will be all, "Who?"
Remax could put it another way: Our argument is that people are laughably stupid and can't read or see colors. For their premise to work, that's what they'd have to essentially mean.