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Walt Kelly was PRESCIENT. Do you have any clue what "we have met the enemy and he is us" really means?

In a 1970 cartoon for EARTH DAY Walt wrote that. What did he mean?

Man...from his treatment of the earth...is the planet's ENEMY.

Yes. That long ago.

Now unrelated to that at all is during the war of 1812 Commodore Perry said "we have met the enemy and they are ours". It shows up all the time. Why I do not know. So.

From the 1970 warning of a cartoonist all he said has come to bear its fruit. No one listened then. No one listens now...well a few do but not enough to matter. True words unheeded have consequences. Enjoying ours?

Posted - January 20, 2020

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