I saw Hawkings quote yesterday too, and I thought it said more about Hawking than humanity...

Isn't all life destructive taken in this context? every organism eats something that lived before it. Every organism spreads it's own new order across a landscape if unchecked by something else in the ecology of the system.

It's not that the first life form created is destructive, it's the fact that all life forms are destructive, and (re)creative ;o)and we have grown separated from this fact.

It's easy to lose touch with that when we can go to Waitrose and buy a couple of shrink-wrapped chicken breasts with no messy blood, and destruction?

(I didn't mean to get all philosophical on a Thursday morning... it just popped out!)

Great blog,

JB>

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never know how to start and i really don't kknow how to finish, and within that span of ignorance lies the intelligence and exhaltation of drawing. You can see the palpable mystery best in the supreme old men, Rembrandt, Cezanne, Degas and above all Michelangelo in his late crucifixion drawings. I tell you it is dumb to get the configuration down too soon and then have to defend those lines as if you knew exactly what you saw and the registration was accurate. This hill-form nerve systems called Montagne St. victoire by Cezanne, those put upon girls by Degas, and the blur of Christ's body in those supreme little sheets tell of an accuracy beyond the crisis of decision, a calm without rest, gone through to the world's body, a proper study of mankind. The trouble is, you have to know as Whistler used to say, which end of the brush to put in your mouth. I get less and less sure as i get older.