Wednesday, February 20, 2013

sir edmund hillary

was probably not the first man to set foot on the highest point on earth sort of in the way that amerigo vespucci was not the first man to discover america.

there happened to be these natives, but we did away with most of them.

life is simply about making claims and recording them.

should an asteroid wipe out any trace of human existence and another intelligent specie emerge in half a billion years, someone will 'discover' whatever landmass or ocean that this will have become, someone will be the 'first' to summit everest, and someone will again wipe out colonies of natives.

may they be a more considerate, non-warring, intelligent, and unified specie.

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