I will be discussing humanity as a whole in this post. I don't like global warming since I know nothing about it, and apparently, even scientists, the supposed-to-be masters of objectivity, disagree. Whether it's faulty knowledge or bias, I don't know, or care. I'll touch lightly on it, but I won't talk much in depth about it.
Consider a few things with me! Isn't it interesting that we, humans, all of us (excluding a select few) are the only beings in existence that strive against the natural order, against nature? Isn't it interesting that we bastardize the animals of this earth, raise them horribly so we can kill them in "humane" ways, so we can feed our gluttonous bellies? Isn't it interesting that I am able to have so much food stored in cabinets, fridges, and even my garage that if I were to ever suddenly be starving, I could sate myself for a month (without going out for more food, either), and yet people in Africa, and most likely, people all over the world are still starving?
Of course, we wonder, "but if we don't have this system, how will we eat?" That's an interesting question. Surely, it's better than producing so much surplus that we cannot actually eat it all, and instead it sits in surplus zones until it rots, and it has to be thrown out. (I don't know where I've read this, but it happens.) Perhaps we could be more efficient. Perhaps we could export our food, to people who actually would eat our extra junk--people who are so hungry, that they would not care how unhealthy our crap might be, if it would just fill them.
Isn't it interesting that we not only use the bees and silkworms for our valuables--but nay, we don't only pen up these senseless bugs (and who is to say just how senseless they really are?), but we pen up cows, bulls, and chicks--chicks, in fact, to the extent that they sit upon one another, adding more and more stacks of chicks until their legs are literally crushed underneath the weight of one another. Cows mooing, sitting in piles of shit, shoulder to shoulder--head to head.
That's not to just say the animal abuse. We reap the land and harvest it, to the extent that we are running out of oil for our cars. Our many, many, many numerous cars, and our gigantic SUVs and Hummers. Seriously, who needs a Hummer? I sure wouldn't ever need a Hummer to do anything but make a huge cross-country move--and I probably wouldn't do it in a monster of a gas-guzzler, either. Hummers should be a special breed of rentable moving company car. Anyway.
Why not the trees? We rape the land, we axe the trees! After all, we need all that paper. (Perhaps a digital age is coming up where we no longer need to use paper. Or perhaps that digital age is the result of having no more trees to write upon.) You'd think that with all our science, all our knowledge, we'd be able to do more than figure out how to give women bigger breast implants more efficiently.
Did you know that the first vehicles were in fact hydrogen-based, and were VERY efficient? But the oil companies wanted their money--so they paid off the car companies to use fuel. (I don't know where I've heard this, but I've heard it. Stew it over, research it if you care to.) The same applies for .ogg's and .mp3's--.ogg's are a superior sound format which has better quality and a smaller size, but the record companies wanted to have a monopoly over .mp3's. Now, we have .mp4's--or even .m4a's, by iTunes, which are impossible to listen to unless you've certified that you've bought the song, and it's "legally" yours to listen to.
In fact, think about that. Think about how you have to pay to listen to sound vibrations. Think about how you have to pay to listen to people's arrangements and ideas, to listen to the sound vibrations which they make--what happened to freedom of speech? Of course, I don't know.
What happened to chivalry, purity, chastity, love, virtue, compassion, empathy, harmony, and peace? What happened in our minds that caused us to rape the land rather than live with it, utilizing all we could to the utmost maximum--not for the sake of saying "look! look at what I have gathered!" but to use it, efficiently? I think the Indians had the best thing going for them. If you don't know the beauty of nature, you need to see it. Chances are, you won't see it unless you go far out of your way to. I'd like to take a poll. Go outside, and look in every direction possible, and look as far to the horizon as you can. How many of you can claim to see real, unraped, untouched nature? Can you? No? Go outside and walk, run, bike, drive (cough), or fly outside--10 miles. 25 miles. 100 miles. 1,000 miles? No, the park does not count as real nature.
This is not a post that gives solutions. This is a post that gives warnings and laments what we've done to our precious earth, so abundant before. Stir this over: all the people in real power are fueled by greed--greed so powerful that they have all the money they could ever want--so much more, that they couldn't even spend it on something worthy of the amount of their money. Yet they want more, just to say, "I have this money and I am rich." How long do you think it will be before these people die out? How many children do you think are raised under this idea of greed and "success", "victor" and economy? Do you think our children will even last that long on this earth?
I might be insane, but I'm not anywhere near comfortable saying assuredly that when the greedy men die, it won't be because the earth died and took them with it. Including the rest of us. I'm just hoping this earth will nourish us for a long time to come.
This is not a post for solutions--this is a post that poses the question, and demands you look around. Go on. Take my poll--go outside. I dare you.
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