A World Without Humans? It All Falls Apart
13th August 2007
NYT. Review of The World Without Us, which I look forward to reading.
Mr. Weisman speaks to the darkest parts of our collective imagination as well as some of the strangest.
Well, no, he speaks to the darkest parts of the Brahmin imagination; those of us in Flyover Country don’t spend a lot of time worrying about these things. No doubt the People of the Crust would point to this as being a major component of the problem; those of us who compose the Filling merely see this as evidence of the eternal truth that those who want to borrow trouble usually have an unlimited credit line.