A place for my thoughts and ideas, my creative outlet, a little piece of the web for me to call my own...yeah...right...
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| a bite of chocolat... ::home:: A place for my thoughts and ideas, my creative outlet, a little piece of the web for me to call my own...yeah...right... |
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Sunday, March 31, 2002 “I'd like to share a revelation I had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.” -Agent Smith, The Matrix [I love that quote!] However cliché the saying is…the world is going to hell in a hand basket. With all the damage that’s been done to this planet, and all the damage that’s inevitably going to be done to it in the future, the world, as we know it, is not going to be around much longer...in terms of billions of years…and there’s really nothing we can do about it. I mean yeah, we can reduce, reuse, recycle our asses off, but does it even matter? Eventually, the sun is going to expand and swallow up the first few planets in our solar system. Even after earth is destroyed, the sun will explode at some point in time, creating a black hole that will probably swallow the rest of our solar system. Perhaps we’ll become intelligent enough to be able to transport our species to another earth-like planet in a different galaxy, or we’ll be able to create decent living conditions in large space ships/space stations and just fall forever in space. But we’ll probably destroy earth before then. Either we’ll blow it up in some ridiculous nuclear war or we’ll slowly strangle Mother Nature with pollution or whatnot. The only ways I see to save our planet from ourselves would be to live like the Native Americans did. Self sufficient, non-destructive, use only what you need, not too much more…True I’d rather keep my computer, my television, my CD player…but the only way giving up my material possessions would save the planet would be if the rest of the world joined me. Of course it could start gradually. Small communities of environmentalists could spring up here and there, trying to attract more people to their chosen lifestyle. Or possibly, humans could become so intelligent that we discover a way to live as we do now without polluting and causing any further damage. Maybe even intelligent enough to fix most of the past damage…but I’m pretty sure we’ll destroy the planet before we, as a species, reach that level of intelligence. So probably the best way to help our planet would be to live “uncivilized.” But who’s to say what’s civilized? Is civilized living like a virus? Like a plague? Or is civilized realizing that the way in which we live is bad for the environment? We do need the environment to survive. We are not yet capable of creating our own living circumstances. Do we want to live gluttonous, greedy lives destroying this earth and leaving nothing for the generations to come? I say we should preserve the environment somehow…but boy how I’d miss technology…now I don’t know many people who would be willing to give it all up. The destruction of Earth has commenced and no one really cares… I wish that humans will reach that level of intelligence where they can create their own world somewhere in space, because I don’t want to give everything up. I don’t want all of these intellectual advancements to be worthless. And I hope that we don’t destroy our planet in the mean time… If only I were Tyler Durden... posted by Shannon | 11:57 PM |
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