swole: inextricable inability to extinguish the human race

[Alan Sondheim]

swole: inextricable inability to extinguish the human race

death refuses its reversal. death is not a chain letter. if i kill for
example, two, and those two were able to kill two each, etc., then it
would be a matter of only a few generations to reach the several billion
necessary for extinguishing. but in fact every death creates yet another
lost potential; the pool is lost.

this is the paradox: the inability of the species to extinguish itself by
transitive chains, without the aid of war, terrorism, and other forms of
slaughter.

the difficulty with these? transpeciation. do we really want to
indiscriminately take other life-forms with us? the beauty of the chain is
that it results in a minimum of damage at each level.

disease carries on this work for us. it is disease that has the capability
for exponential expansion. but disease is indiscriminate, doesn't work
quickly enough, and runs up against good intentions. the very first thing
is to eliminate good intentions.

good intentions are bad intentions. to save one of us might eliminate an
entire species.

it returns to the reversal and its inability. genidentity plays a role; to
act from the dead upon the living involves a problematic ontological
shift. despite humanity's constant efforts, there is no indication of
this, not to mention its efficacy.

no, we are left with our debris, garbage-animals slaughtering without
discrimination, unable to kill off our own for the good of the polis.
would that death were action, that death spread like the environmental
savior it may well be. germ warfare, yes, but highly targeted. there is no
other answer; this is stopgap at best.

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