So I've been getting into some hardcore Kurt Vonnegut reading this past week, and what a week it was! I read Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions, and Bluebeard in four days which brings my novel total by Vonnegut to a meager and embarrassing four. He nails us humans right on the head from our pollution to our penis envy. We're a bunch of assholes.
No human portrays this more than myself I'd think. I am the worst kind of human being, the kind who knows what he is doing wrong and then does it anyway. I saw "Inconvenient Truth" and I litter still (although not as much.) I know what the real deal with cigarettes are and I smoke them. I know that a sugar pill will make you feel like you took a oxycontin if your mind tells it to. Do I care, no. At least not usually and outwardly because actions still speak louder than words.
Human beings are a DISEASE that is infecting this planet. We are the only animal, vegetable, or mineral that has no population thinner and takes more than it gives to the environment it lives in. African rainforest elephants will clear huge sections of forest as they eat their daily ton-age of foliage. They destroy all that's around them. This allows tiny animals to feast on shorter and younger foliage that wouldn't exist with out elephants clearing land and letting the sun hit the forest floor. We crash through the forest and then pave over it. We grow fields and fields of fruit trees and then spray them with chemicals so that no other animal but a human would eat it. Then we don't even let all of the humans eat. Only special ones with special access to gold.
Human beings are a DISEASE that is infecting this planet. We are the only animal, vegetable, or mineral that has no population thinner and takes more than it gives to the environment it lives in. African rainforest elephants will clear huge sections of forest as they eat their daily ton-age of foliage. They destroy all that's around them. This allows tiny animals to feast on shorter and younger foliage that wouldn't exist with out elephants clearing land and letting the sun hit the forest floor. We crash through the forest and then pave over it. We grow fields and fields of fruit trees and then spray them with chemicals so that no other animal but a human would eat it. Then we don't even let all of the humans eat. Only special ones with special access to gold.
And as we lose our primary animalistic concerns of where's the food, where's the infants, where's the shelter etc, we have something relatively new on planet Earth, time to think. And this new found time to think has finally allowed us to see beyond what we are looking at. To actually step out into the void and know that we are intolerable assholes. From Copernicus and Descartes to Gore and Hawkins, great minds have taken this time to think and used it to realize the importance of the human existence.
Take it like this...You have a swimming pool. It's the only swimming pool in the whole wide world so everyone uses it. They all shit in it everyday because the pool seems so big the shit will disolve and go away. But there's only one pool. So at some point it'll be so shitty no one will ever be able to swim in it again. The pool is not only the planet but humanity itself.We shit on ourselves. We take food out of the mouths of hungry people. There are more intelligent minds and scientific dollars looking for or disproving Bigfoot than there is curing small pox, a disease which we have wiped out in all the parts of the world we think are nice but let run rampant everywhere else.
And as always there is the divide inside. One part of me wants to help save us person to person. Each person who smiles is another person adding to the levity of humanity and bringing us that much closer to the harmony that can save life as we know it. And the other side that wants to kill everyone and drink their blood as I alone pollute the Earth just for spite.
Just for spite....
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