Quick Thoughts on People's Place:
While other more pressing issues and events were unfolding around our ever so decaying world a gorilla was killed in a Cincinnati Zoo. Human were being religiously and racially persecuted, US service members were wounded in the ongoing destructive war in the Middle East, and women continued to be sold as sex slaves right across the Atlantic. Yes, yes, yes, we all get it. These events that are vitally shaping our world politics, morality, and world view are of far more concern that the dead gorilla... But is it really? People are dead tired of hearing about the fucking gorilla, but the reality is that this incident delves deeper into our state as human beings than what is clearly apparent as well as what it is being portrayed to be. This isn't about the dead gorilla. Period. This is about the depths of human cruelty and prideful ego. This is about deeply and truly believing that we are by any and all measures the pinnacle of creation. This is about the idea and view that human life is worth more that any other form of life in existence. It's about the notion that we are in control of what has the right to live and what does not. It's about humanity's clear attempt to control nature because, fuck, we're better than nature.
What. A. Fucking. Ego: Human Ego at its Absolute Pedestal of Grace:
We take what we want when we want it:
- Issue #1. The Planet:
Simple, obvious, yet not understood: Animals do not belong in captivity. This isn't how nature works. Why do we always seem like the odd man (or should I say specie) out. How much clearer can it become? We do not fit into this otherwise harmonious and tranquil place. We never have. We never will. Everything else seems to fit in like a key in a key hole. Everything seems to work within itself to reach a certain Utopian balance. Cue humans in: Balance: Disrupted. Animals have their place on this planet. They have a place to drink, sleep, hunt, repose. Cue in technology and deforestation. Umm, okay. We are going to tear down all this gorgeous shit because, well, we need to build our buildings and cities and factories to feed our constant and never ending greed. Yes, we as people believe that we have the right to do whatever we desire on and to this planet because, well, we are people, of course. Aren't we the most evolved and ultimately the most entitled? We will be the destruction of this planet, but it's all okay. We're humans! We find our way out of any pile of shit we happen to deliberately jump into, right? Of course we will! Because we're that smart. We're that evolved. We're that clever. Fuck the planet. We'll find another. I mean, the universe is full of them... It is this mentality that leads to the elimination of nature and other animals without the slightest hint of remorse. The simple fact: We think we are better. Why? :rolls eyes:
- Issue #2. Life:
We take their environment, but that's not enough. We. Must. Take. Them. See, this isn't about the gorilla. It's about a much broader and disturbing matter. Life. Life is such a beautiful thing. It's organic, it's unpredictable, it's war for survival. It's rare. So rare that we have yet to find any trace of it in the universe. Not a blade of grass, not a microscopic bacteria. Nothing. Yet we as humans think that we have control over the lives of every other specie on the planet? We take and we cage because when we go to a zoo there better be a a damn vicious lion or shit slinging ape ready for my entertainment and viewing pleasure. We experiment on because that monkey suffering while we try our chemical shit on it is better than a human suffering. We kill for fur and leather because that damn animal skin will sure look better on me that cashmere and cotton. What despicable animals we are. What will satisfy us as people is central in our lives. The cost of it: irrelevant. Even if that cost is another life. And, yes. A life is a life. Life feels. It feels fear, it feels pain, it dies. Isn't just interesting how so much like us they are?
- Issue #3. Us:
Since the beginning of our specie we have felt superior to any other form or life. Religion is partly why we feel so elevated when it comes to animal comparison, but boy this ego we possess has overtake God. We feel bigger than God. Initially God was the only one that could create life... Well, we can do that now. Initially, God was the only one that could end the world. Well, yeah... We've hunted on full stomachs, we've sacrificed animals, we've engaged in animal dissections and experimentation, we hire exterminators, we run over animals on the streets and simply leave them there, we "humanly euthanize." Why don't we ever "humanely euthanize" people? Shit, we keep them alive with machines and drugs even when their bodies are begging to let go. Anyway, we treat life as something that is dispensable. We see absolutely no value in life. And, fuck, not just the lives of animals, look at our own specie. At war since the beginning of time. The difference is that we choose to be at war. We create conflicts. We create religious wars, we create oil wars, we create idea based wars. That's all us. We are chaos. We are destruction. It's in our nature. Animals are innocent and free. They are victims of the plague that is humanity. A plague that takes anything in it's path. A plague that consumes what it wants and moves on. A plague that is destroying this planet without a hint of fear and remorse. A plague that values itself more than what it takes. A plague that feels entitlement. One that feels as if it inherited the earth and can do what it pleases with it. A plague that will consume the resources of this earth as well as life. A plague that will eventually consume itself. Then what? Nothing. Nothing at all. Tell me again what makes a human life more valuable than any other...........
