¶ Nature Permits It Sequence (1)
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Nature Permits It Sequence:
"Stress-producing metaphysical gas stretches and strains nature to yield into social-evolution conformations such as the gas-filled plastic tube of Universe. There is an a priori universal law in the controlled complexity that tolerates man’s pressurized nonsense, as nature permits each day’s seemingly new Universe of semifamiliarities, semiwonders and semimystery, what humans might think of as history unfolding on this little planet. There is the Game of Cosmic History, in which Universe goes on approximately unaware of human nonsense while accommodating its omnilocal game-playing. Flies have their game. Mosquitoes have their game. Microbes have their game. Lion cubs have their game. Whatever games they may be playing, positive or negative, realistic or make-believe, all the games are fail-safe, alternate circuits, omniconsequential to eternally regenerative Universe integrity. It’s all permitted. It all belongs.
“Only humans play ‘Deceive yourself and you can fool the world’; or ‘I know what it’s all about’; or ‘Life is just chemistry’; and ‘We humans invented and are running the world.’ Dogs play ‘Fetch it’ to please their masters, not to deceive themselves. The most affectionate of dogs do not play ‘Burial of our dead’–”
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