Sunday, February 13, 2000

On The Subject Of Plants & Animals Vs. Humans

This is regarding my transition to why I am now somewhat okay with born-out-of-wedlock children.

I realized that I was allocating so much of my energy towards environmentalism.  Save the rain forest, save the dolphins.  but then I saw a comedy [bit]]]routine by greg proops.... and I realized he was right.

Insufferable humans are wasting so much time and energy and resources towards helping plants, animals, etc.  They are doing this while simultaneously diverting much-needed attention away from human beings.  They are inadvertently deflecting attention away from real emergencies.

With their attention, they are taking with them resources, [[[strategy,, taxpayer money,,,__, what else
and __putting all this __ towards saving the planet.

For the record, I am not and have never been vegetarian.  The reason is that eating whatever the heck anybody wants is a human right, and if I want to eat meat, I will.  Nobody has any authority whatsoever to tell a person what they cannot or should not eat, especially due to some silly moral ambiguities.

I have very recently made the discovery that.,,,,, that--- hmm how to word this.

For a very long time, this is what the environmentalists have been telling us.  Environmentalists brew and breed all this distress, anxiety, and dire emotional fraught, etc. that once a particular given species is extinguished from the planet, the planet can never recover.  There is devastation that this is a grievous loss to the natural ecosystem, --- more spec the ecosystem cycle in which the species resides...,,,,  the niche that it occupied.      to fulfill its role in this great circle of life.  (I hate to reference The Lion King in a context of something that I do not regard with much reverence, but the quote fits too well.)
extinct,

As a matter of fact, it turns out that none of this is true.  It turns out that the planet will recover quite nicely.  It will not necessarily bring back that exact species with all the assumptions and duties held therein, but the planet and living ecosystems will certainly adjust to this "loss."  It is Le Chatelier's principle, reflected on a macro scale.

All of this emotional trauma for a stray cat?  (Dharma and Greg reference)

Trailblazing cute elfin Bjork said that her family up there in Iceland is very very nature-oriented and they like the outdoors in the vein of old ancient tribal customs that incorporate nature into their spirituality and understanding of the universe.  Hunh.  So there really is an origin behind all the "elfin" descriptors.  That part was surprising enough.  I was plodding along the article totally nonchalantly and innocuously, when something she said stopped me dead in my tracks.

She said that her extended family still live off the land...  And that her family hunts.

Wait a cotton pickin minute.  Hold the freakin phone.  ...Wait, so, awesome, crazy-dressing, fun-original-musiced, liberal, progressive Bjork's family freakin HUNTS??  They are perfectly okay with stealthily tracking through the forest, carrying firearms of some sort, and killing an animal before eating it?

My mind began racing, the cogs n wheels turning at lightning speed.  I had to rationalize this confounding, wholly unexpected new development somehow. I had to find a way to explain this and make sense of it.

I suppose...  I suppose that if a family that is very tribal and lives in an old-timey village, and if that family hunts, they are not doing it for fun; they are killing for sustenance.  That family is killing animals because they need to eat.  That family is killing because they need to freakin survive.

If that family lives in the customs of the ancients, then they probably do not have modern grocery stores ans supermarkets nearby.

We do not need to worry about the earth.  The earth can take care of itself.  It was here long before any of us were.  And it will continue to be here long after we are gone.  We do not need to worry about the planet.  The planet can take care of itself.

Illegitimately begotten children are a far more dire need, worthy of our attention, resources, time, and energy.  Human beings are far more deserving of devotion from people such as myself who have chosen to dedicate their life's work to a noble cause.

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