Freesinger Roy

I Am Therefore I think by Roy freesinger C2005

Rene Descartes, French philosopher-mathematician asserted in 1637/
“I think, therefore I am,”/ He had it backwards/ I am, therefore I think is right!/
No one can think before she-he is born/
from mother, into families & cultures/
That provide love, food, care, language/
a way-of-life & cultural know-how/
Ergo, “We are, therefore we think!”
We are the only beings who can ’say’ that/

At birth our minds are empty /
of Mom & Dad, family & society/
of language, math, culture/
Of religion, nation, politics/
Empty baby minds, tabula rasa/
but with many mental organs/
that make it possible to learn/
language, family, societal know-how/
That makes it possible to live with other people/
Sometimes not, as ye well know/

Every culture from the largest to tiny tribes /
Must have a language
for its members to function/ We’ve been that way /
since the mutations, that caused us to be human (circa 130,000 BCE)
those mutations differentiated us /
from all other hominids/
made it possible by orgasm/
to multiply, survive, thrive/

But has our genetic addiction to orgasm & wargasm/
separated by language & cultures/
Made us too greedy & cruel/
Has orgasm caused too many people /
from 6.2 now to 11.5 billion by 2150/
Orgasm was a fail-safe adaptation/
Now is it a fail-sure culmination?/
Can we survive wars, pestilence, viruses, global warming!/
Will corporate greenhouse gasses, methane, & orgasm/
Cause our earth to become too hot/
for human, animal, plant habitation/
Except for a few South Pole emerging green lands/
& a few North Polar islands/
Will the super wealthy, their corporations & military/
Murder our descendents/ take the Poles for themselves?/
Or will our descendents kill them?
What think ye? / I am, therefore I think/