curunir's Journal: Does anyone read these things?

Hmmm...So I'm curious, does anyone actually read these things? I suppose I need some sort of discussion topic if I want people to respond, huh?

Hmmm...

Here's a quote I found that seemed oddly applicable to our post-9/11 society...

"Civilization is only a pretense, in the crisis we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave screeching at the enemy, wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone that we'll use the moment it comes close enough." -- Orson Scott Card, Xenocide p489

What else...

Some crazy links:
This (riiiiight...)
That (hmmm...guess we can be sure Taco uses google)
Wha??? (the pictures alone are good for a larph)
hmm... (WTF is a Liberal Quaker?)

Oh and...

GO A'S!!!

A lot of derivatives of that quote

[Raiford]

I heard the same concept in another quote. It came from a physicist I worked with for a while.

"The veneer of civilization is very thin ..."-- James Cusick, NASA Lewis Research Center