A commonplace: Charles Pierce, on the sea

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From "How We Look at the Sea", the chapter on global warming denial in Idiot America:

And that is how most of us look at the sea-- as an afterthought, a secondary, vestigial presence. Its power seem an ancient myth, almost a superstition, like a dragon or snow beast. We fool ourselves into thinking it's something we've outgrown, when it's really only something we've talked ourselves out of believing in. We have become quite good at mistaking amnesia for wisdom.