Nobody has the monopoly on clarity. I watched (from a high window) a young female alsation on heat and cavorting with a tiny terrier male yesterday and then later went to see a person making reeds for Irish pipes. He told me that the Irish church burnt traditional instruments - in favour of 'plain song'.
The high fells are a greeny-brown desert and they have been like that for a very long time. It is clear that we haven't evolved, in a biological sense, between then and now. Those that don't learn from their mistakes are condemned to repeat them - paraphrased. The hippies believed they were a significant mutation, for a year or so, but it was just a rearrangement (of hairstyles). As to 'harmony with nature' - with six billion people it's just not possible, with six million maybe. 'Chemical scum' is Hawking's take.
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