Small appreciation rant nobody asked for. Do you even have any idea where this image came from?
This image! The one we use every Christmas.
This is from a speculative evolution book by Dougal Dixon, full of imaginings of how man might evolve in the future after countless self inflicted ecological disasters and society collapses. This book veers hard into crazy town. I absolutely love it, but not because I believe in a lick of what's in this book. I love it because it's gross, bizarre, unsettling, and it frankly makes me uncomfortable. Cover shown below.
This book has wild ideas about the future of man not limited to: Symbiotic but far genetically diverged hominids living like Master-Blaster from Beyond Thunderdome.
Parasitic flea humans that suck the blood of what appears to be a pinniped version of a humanoid.
Sea otter humans?
Horse humans. Wild shit.
There's more! Another book by this author is simply called After Man, which explores the potential evolution of wildlife after we become extinct on earth for undefined reasons. This book is only slightly better grounded in the land of reality. It's almost believable, and almost nobody would ask much about it if they found it on your bookshelf. It could lurk on your coffee table among a pile of national geographic mags and a bird watcher's field guide fairly unsuspectingly.
But inside are Sand Sharks, desert piranha bats, blubber kangaroos, monkey cats, and the most horrifying baboon relatives you've ever seen in your life.
And then we have The New Dinosaurs, a book that speculates how dinosaurs might have evolved had the Cretaceous chicxulub impact never occurred. Absolutely unhinged stuff in there too.
If you put all three of these on your coffee table you can screen out any new friends who don't appreciate morbid whimsy! It's like gunshot to keep property taxes low, but more in the way of reminding all of your associates that you love the bizarre without taking it all that seriously.
I absolutely love these books for their absurdity and their simultaneous grains of sensitivity toward the impact we have on the planet. Fun stuff.
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