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While the Eksdom request for increase is on the go, I felt the need to just try and find some solitude away from reported murder and mayhem and lengthy on-air discussions about wrongs, democracy and the squandered billions. Unfortunately the particular escape hatch I chose was not such a good choice…
After watching The Cove on DVD (again) a cold sweat started running down the back of my neck. For those not in the know, The Cove is a documentary about the killing of dolphins for human consumption in a hidden bay in Japan. It re-awakened thoughts I had for a long time about what we, as the rulers of earth, are actually doing to our kingdom.
It is nothing new that everything we do in life is basically done to make money, some for a living and others for much more than that. Long gone are the days that we hunted or grew our own food just to exist, these days we all want to be wealthy and have more than is necessary. This hunger for wealth drives us to break promises, lie, steal, hurt, maim, pillage and kill. It stretches from individuals to gangs, consortiums, groups, governments and even nations. Eventually we will out-do ourselves. If there is not going to be a worldwide famine, a flu strain that will kill millions or another world war, we will just kill each other to survive – not even thinking about wealth anymore.
The point of my ranting is this: Why can we not find ways to sustain our existence without compromising that of other species? If we are soooo intelligent that we can have computers think and do things for us, get DNA from hair follicles, clone beasts (and probably humans as well) and visit other planets, why do we still have to decimate what was inherently never ours to touch at all?
Is it so far-fetched to come up with a conspiracy theory which professes that the governments and powers that are – keep us numb to the big picture, feed us shit (as in the mushroom growing in the darkness) and prefer to have us gobbling up plastic food to procreate extensively, delivering more of us unhealthy tubs to feed the medical chain into the thriving business it is and thereby ensuring profits of all the other leeches along the way? It would have been an isolated issue if only we humans suffered through our own ruthlessness.
I am mad at us when a hundred year old tree drops by one chop. I am mad at us when I see maimed rhinos lying dead on their sides with horns chopped off. I am mad at us when I read of species going by the wayside, because our ever increasing numbers need more farming space from the forests. Sure, the “lesser” species are considered “soulless” but then I am not the one considering this – for a soulless man I can only feel the agony and pain before my light is dimmed and after that you’ll have to do without me – as would be the same for the lesser species.
I am mad at us when I see that baby dolphin trying to escape the massacre with a trail of blood behind it, flapping away, battling to swim – and finally not surface again…
I sometimes just feel embarrassed to be human.
I am no tree hugger neither a Greenpeace activist nor an active conservationist; I only observe what we do to our world and the other living things on it.
If I am mad, just think how mad nature is - and if you believe that positive energy returns the same, think how big a negative whack we are bound to receive soon.
The bulk of humanity professes an afterlife for the human soul, as long as we try to be good, love our fellows, and respect life. Well, from what I have seen and experienced so far, we fail miserably. And if I was your god, you’d all have a heated discussion in the hottest kitchen for ever and ever…
Amen.
