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  • on Fire And Ice by Robert Frost, on October 28, 2004
    The great thing about poetry is that you can interpret it to mean whatever you like. I personally interpret the fire in here to be anger and hatred and the ice to be depression and apathy. Excesses of either really could destroy humanity.

    Of course, we're an ethnocentric species. Whenever we speak of the world ending, we really talk about humanity ending. I have no doubt that humanity can kill off. But I think people don't give this planet enough credit. We may be able to poison this planet so much that we all die and that it takes several million years for it to recover possibly, but it will recover and some other species will recover to dominance. Those enivirnomentalists who say "Save Earth!" really mean "Save Humanity!"

    The Earth can take whatever we throw at it. And if I'm wrong, if it can't, the Earth won't care any way. It's a planet, it doesn't have feelings. So either way, we kill ourselves off and we and the other species we destroyed would be the only ones who care. Comforting thought, isn't it?

  • on You Men by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, on June 13, 2003
    I agree, the ending is my favorite part too. I also don't speak Spanish, so I'm going on just the translation too. These are my favorite stanzas:

    "So where does the greater guilt lie
    for a passion that should not be:
    with the man who pleads out of baseness
    or the woman debased by his plea?

    Or which is more to be blamed--
    though both will have cause for chagrin:
    the woman who sins for money
    or the man who pays money to sin?"

    The last stanza got a bit too venomous for my taste. Although from what I have observed, I can't say I disagree with it for the most part.

    As for musika's comment on how the world is run, I've wondered that myself. I think some of the world's problems might be solved if more women were in charge but I don't think it would solve anything. Either way, neither men or women are perfect. And in my opinion, I don't think there is anything stopping women from becoming say...the president of the US or something like that. Except for money - men make more money on average than women do and thats really all politics is about when it gets boiled down to the basics: the person with the most money is most likely to win the election. I personally like that idea that was made up a while ago, I don't remember where, but it was someone saying that a test should be made to see if someone is fit to be the president. The first thing that disqualifies them is if they actually wanted to be president.