Here are some tidbits of information to chew on:
Humans no longer exist in an intimate relationship with the natural world. We no longer find a necessity in investing ourselves as stewards in the processes of the natural environment in order to survive. There is no ?giving and taking;? only taking. We have eliminated a need to depend upon our senses and grasp of natural relationships by developing technologies that distance us from any spiritual connection with the real world. Instead of depending upon the skills of understanding the environment and the creatures that live there, we have created agriculture and mass plant and animal augmentation so that our food is overproduced, over-tampered, and neatly packaged. This eliminates any need to invest ourselves in the transaction of one life for another, and it allows us to have more than we need while we remove ourselves from the roots of existence. This means we lose our fundamental level of our relative purpose on a personal and cultural perspective. America is statistically the ?fattest? of the countries, but gluttony and greed are pandemic.
Our senses are now torpid as we have designed our lifestyles to revolve around flattened sidewalks and pavements (pavements, which, by the way, leach about 10 billion gallons of oil into the oceans approximately every eight months), bombarded by advertising, televisions, radios, telephones, and too much synthetic or manufactured stimuli that do not act as a catalyst between ourselves and the natural world that sustains our lives. Our eyes?our dominant sense--are tunnel-visioned; our ears are stagnant of diffusion because we focus them into mechanical targets and lack the need and ability to utilize them beyond significant stimulation; our noses are all but deadened as we stuff them with perfumes, petroleum wastes, and myriad elements that have no bearing upon the synergy of senses for survival. In other words, we don?t live in a world in which our senses mean survival. We have created crutches, in fact, for our sensory deprived, and our physically handicapped. Coupled with our fear of mortality and our unnatural life extensions, we now have a planet overpopulated with a species that fosters its genetic shortcomings to the point that we are able to breed our weaknesses into our bloodlines and thrive. This means that we have breached the carrying capacity of a planet we poison, and we are essentially de-evolving, if not mutating. A study was done that showed how the thumbs of today?s children exhibit a marked increase in dexterity when compared to the dexterity of past generations. It is suggested that video games have much to do with this mutation.
Because of our gross lack of respect and reverence for the function and provision of the natural world, we have eliminated species from existence and caused damages in the waters, air, and earth that will persist for generations. This means we have sacrificed our children for our infantile instant gratifications. We have done more damage to the planet in the past 150 years than has been done over the past 10,000. We have made our water too toxic to drink freely. In fact, we are the only non-water-dwelling animal that defecates in its water on purpose.
In our desire to treat nature as a commodity, we have wiped out nearly all original forest from this (and now other) countries. Through succession and our continued raping of the land, as well as to generate revenue for the government through fishing and gaming, and in our introduction of foreign species via international travels, we have created our own cultural overpopulation of deer, mice, ticks, and mosquitoes, among other bacteria and viruses. And through lack of truly understanding the ramifications of hunting without being more closely tied to the creatures and the environment, we have tried to replace natural predators?that we have extirpated?without a true understanding of their roles and impacts. In other words, we know just enough about the environment to be dangerous. And we have proven it.
Now the unfortunate thing about this is that we teach our children the same mentality. So it doesn?t matter what kind of government we support or disdain; it doesn?t matter whether we form our own micro-nation under our very own government rule. As long as we support this spiritual deadening and technological progression, then we are not really solving a crucial issue.
The funny thing is, the more you argue with me, the more you show how tied and invested you are to this government and its propaganda than you would like to admit. Like I said, you support the government in action and philosophy, while you despise it in words.
By the way, can you think of another organism that spreads rapidly on its host, builds enormous, long term ?growths? on its host, multiplies exponentially, and causes mass, irreparable damage the way that we do?
Cancer.
Alright. Go ahead. I?ve cut my Ph.D. teeth on lawyers and military personnel over the past couple of decades with this, and everyone ends up discovering that they can?t argue with nature. Let?s see how far you want to take it instead of emptying your muddy cup and listening.
-M
