The flow chart on p. 215 is a great snap shot of life. I could talk about the bank around the corner that won't send me statements or the bank in England that spends more than my account is worth to do the same. About my friend, an army engineer who was forced to fix things the wrong way because the only "right" way is by the book which is specifically wrong while the right way is against the book and is therefore "wrong". Or so many other stupid things. If the book has no other value in the universe, this chart validates the book's existence.

Life is made needlessly difficult so that we squander money paying professions to do things that we might otherwise be able to do for ourselves. But then the capitalist system collapses and idle hands rise in revolt.

Nobody wants responsibility for anything, so everyone always looks for the best way to pass it along to someone else... until it finds someone who forgot to cover his arse.

Just as the evidence of plant and animal fossil in antartica was open to interpretations, so interpretations are open to argument. The bottom line is facts don't exist. Theories hold power until those who hold the theory are no longer arround to support it.

We are a part of nature and nature is a part of us. We can no escape the consequences of our action... we effect the planet and the planet effects us in a continuous feedback loop.