FINGERNAILS AND STRAWS Is civilization merely cooperative predation, supporting illusions of physical escape from consequences of eating and being eaten? Our actions speak clearly of sly dissimulation as deliberate confusion offers alluring bait to multiple chances for cheating and being beaten. Then why do I love so dearly this language of elucidation unless by poetic infusion I challenge to reshape financial romances into weeding and being seeded with genetic discpline yearly self-limit each population to end our wild profusion and, hoping it's not too late, save children of gentle sciences for nurtured loving and being needed.

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