Oh Wow Okay HWOS 04 010

2024-03-28T00:00:00Z

Oh Wow Okay "I wonder if a sillier and more ignorant catachresis than 'Mother Nature' was ever perpetrated? It is because Nature is toothless, hideous and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilization. One thinks of wild animals as savage, but the fiercest of them begins to look almost domesticated when one considers the viciousness required of a survivor in the sea; as for the insects, their lives are sustained only by intricate processes of fantastic horror. There is no conception more fallacious than the sense of cosiness implied by 'Mother Nature.' Each species must strive to survive, and that it will do by every means in its power, however foul, unless the instinct to survive is weakened by conflict with another instinct" (p. 140). Wyndham, John. The Midwich Cuckoos. Ballantine Books, 1957. https://archive.org/details/midwichcuckoos0000john