The week began with that lurid, sickly-sweet feeling, the feeling of eating cotton candy in the hot sun all day and now the sun is setting and you’re on a roller coaster and it’s going higher and higher very very slowly and it’s still very hot and humid out and you don’t want to be a naysayer because you know this is supposed to be fun but something tells you this isn’t going to end well.
I mean, I also kind of love the over-the-top, keep-the-faith folks. Last night, I watched Neil Water's second video, post-museum-evaluation, showing the camera trap photos and why the museum was wrong to dismiss the idea of it being a thylacine and man ... when he's talking about the baby's stiff tale and those little haunches, I just don't know. Maybe? Maybe there's a tiny chance there's a secret thylacine out there? I guess I just hope that the excitement over past-groovy-animals-that-may-not-exist doesn't distract from duller-rediscovered-animals-that-need-conservation-now -- but maybe I'm wrong to be nervous. Maybe there's room in this conservation tent for everyone & all the approaches.
Yes, this is probably why I want the thylacine to exist. And why I have a romantic admiration for Bigfoot hunters. Denial for what we've done.
I mean, I also kind of love the over-the-top, keep-the-faith folks. Last night, I watched Neil Water's second video, post-museum-evaluation, showing the camera trap photos and why the museum was wrong to dismiss the idea of it being a thylacine and man ... when he's talking about the baby's stiff tale and those little haunches, I just don't know. Maybe? Maybe there's a tiny chance there's a secret thylacine out there? I guess I just hope that the excitement over past-groovy-animals-that-may-not-exist doesn't distract from duller-rediscovered-animals-that-need-conservation-now -- but maybe I'm wrong to be nervous. Maybe there's room in this conservation tent for everyone & all the approaches.