mostly nonfiction and bakersfield news | October 22nd, 2009
The Next Species
James Gaitis muses about the species after us on RedRoom.com. Enjoy! – Erika Rae, Irresponsible Editor
We were talking about the next species to come. The species after Homo sapiens. She said she hoped its defining characteristic would be a new sixth sense. And when I asked her what sense that might be she said, “A sense of guilt.”
I formulated the idea that there already were members of the next species living here on our little planet. After all, it’s not always the case that a new species pops suddenly and distinctly into its new existence precisely at the time when the old dies out. We now know that both can survive, at least for a while, along different evolutionary paths. I thought of all the good things good people are doing against the tide of so much bad. And so I said, “Maybe there are already some of them amongst us. Some of the next species who have this intuitive sixth sense of guilt of which you speak.”
And she smiled with that melancholy blue-eyed smile of a beautiful vegetarian cat-rescuing pacifist and answered, “Yes. Perhaps a relative few.” [...]
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