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own making: suicide, voluntarily or involuntarily by the whole human
genome.
III HABITAT AND BUBBLES
THE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS BUBBLE
Fully invested as the Americans are by the storm of production-
consumption, we are carpet bombing the land with the single-family
house.The single-family house is the classical tip of the iceberg of wrong-
ness. Wherever the single-family-house bomb is dropped, an avalanche of
commitments and goods follow. A shrapnel-like chain of “events” investing
the underground, the landscape, and the atmosphere.The commitments are
the rules, regulations, mortgages, the covenants among neighbors, policing,
law and order, etc.The goods, delivered directly or indirectly by the rubber
wheel, pour in in ever larger clones of itself.
Political Correctness demands that the sub-exurban pattern be the tan-
gible proof of the “American Dream” and that the glamour of life be in an
escalating momentum: more is better. Consumption is good, hypercon-
sumption better. I call this the unarrestable engine of a better kind of
wrongness.
This dream made into a planetary reality would do in China, India,
Africa, South America, and all. Just as a pointer, the tip of the iceberg again,
the number of cars, trucks, buses, and similar rubber-rolling stock.Ten plan-
ets would probably not deliver sufficient disposable biosphere to satisfy our
hyperconsumptive felicity.
THE HISTORICAL FITNESS BUBBLE
Waste, pollution, environmental disruption, and segregation have been the
shadow projected by our presence in search of food, shelter, and dominion.
But for most of our presence on the planet, let's say 3 million years, the
impact of such presence has been absorbed by the vastness of its biosphere.
No longer so and mainly because of two agencies: population and how-
ness. Population growth has been the direct consequence of howness: how
to make something into something else in gender and in size.The scientific
and technological revolutions have been nothing short of magic, putting to
shame the shaman and the witch doctors of animism.
What has emerged at the very beginning of the creational process of real-
ity is howness. With the quasi-miraculous tools of depth vision, larynx
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