WHILE I DO NOT believe, judging by the women who “done with men”, that female human beings have the hermaphrodite capacity to procreate themselves like the snails; if the union of same sex is proliferated, then the human race is doomed.
A gynaecologist friend confirmed that to me. However as long as a large enough margin of the earth’s tenants practise being fruitful and multiplying, then we have no fear of being extinct. On the other hand, as long as a society regulates itself, there is room for diversion and differentiation. However it is not a fight to see who will win. Chacun à son goût (to every man whatever is tasty).
Charles Darwin was once pilloried for his beliefs in the origin of the species, and though cast into the wilderness for years, 200 years after his death, has the satisfaction, if he could hear, of an apology from the Anglican Church.
So cheer up Boysie, the use of DNA will be vindicated, although bacchanal will reign. See the woman recently who says that she doesn’t know which of her children belong to which man?
Darwin put paid to the belief that was foisted upon the world by the ancient Jews that somehow or the other there was a naked Adam and a leaf-covered Eve wandering around disorientated in the forest. We have to admit that many of the taboos espoused by Leviticus no longer make sense, although some of them make for an effectively regularized social cohesiveness.
The development of the world as it is now, cannot be explained without the acceptance of what could have happened thousands of years ago when tectonic shifts of earth, or sea, separated the Americas from Africa.
Surely the behemoth structures of Egypt must have been conceived by minds similar to the minds of South American Incas? Why are black people probably the first occupants of Australia?
This brings me to the Caribbean – a series of mountain tops and coral growths arranged in what was a chain, still threatened with being engulfed by water. Sometimes the tectonic shift is gradual, sometimes swift and catastrophic.
We may be optimistic that the next shift will cause the Caribbean to rise above the sea and become one big continent. Perhaps that shift will be occasioned by the heaviness or lightness of the ice caps and a change in the equator.
My belief is, and I have no scientific reason yet to proffer (research continues), that it will be in our favour and that we shall become one of the big continents and no longer a small fry in this competitive world. The big boys will have to pay attention to us. This will make our present social and political crisis irrelevant – thank God.
Let us examine this heavenly scenario that portends hope. One country, one Prime Minister, he may be from what was Nevis. There will be no grumbling from Jamaica about seceding to Canada, or anybody saying they are not an ATM or a society. Oil will flow everywhere, and there will be flying fish in abundance.
LIAT and Caribbean Airlines will be obsolete, as we will have a bullet train servicing the continent; no piow piow ferry. The Central Bank will be in the centre being central, and will have manners and answer the Wild Coot, who is a citizen – probably the ECCB, known for its stability and already wide outreach.
But I digress as I dream.
Wild Coot, while you are digressing and dreaming, suppose instead of rising above the waters, Kick um Jenny behave like Krakatoa in 1883. Wuhloss! Are our many volcanoes linked? I mean the ones in Martinique, Trinidad, St Vincent, St Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Montserrat and the one in Babados near to the statute of Lord Nelson (that has not erupted yet).
People have sent off voice messages, (anyone out there ?), to see if life exists on any other planet. Hoy, suppose they get back an answer (what you want?) IMAGINE consternation. And what questions would be raised here? Theological, sociological, scatological and scientific. One question that would interest the Wild Coot will be ‘How do you procreate?’ It would solve a riveting question.
“Wild Coot, aren’t people from other planets here already? According to the defence minister of Canada, they are called ‘tall whites’.”
• Harry Russell is a banker. Email: [email protected]
