Pat, sometime ago I saw a cartoon….a riff on the meme of evolution with a line of “beings” represented, each an advanced stage over the prior one….starting out with a chimp, then an ape, then Neanderthal/Denisovans, then modern human….in this one the final human iteration has turned back and walks toward those in line behind him with, as…
Pat, sometime ago I saw a cartoon….a riff on the meme of evolution with a line of “beings” represented, each an advanced stage over the prior one….starting out with a chimp, then an ape, then Neanderthal/Denisovans, then modern human….in this one the final human iteration has turned back and walks toward those in line behind him with, as I recall, saying “go back, we fu*ked up”…. I think I cut it out of the comic page and stashed it somewhere. Really rang true!
So true. While the best of us completed the journey not all of us made it successfully. Then there are the career cretins like myself who purposefully can’t let go and remain haunted in our Neanderthal souls.
Pat, sometime ago I saw a cartoon….a riff on the meme of evolution with a line of “beings” represented, each an advanced stage over the prior one….starting out with a chimp, then an ape, then Neanderthal/Denisovans, then modern human….in this one the final human iteration has turned back and walks toward those in line behind him with, as I recall, saying “go back, we fu*ked up”…. I think I cut it out of the comic page and stashed it somewhere. Really rang true!
So true. While the best of us completed the journey not all of us made it successfully. Then there are the career cretins like myself who purposefully can’t let go and remain haunted in our Neanderthal souls.