At 10/2/08 04:13 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:
I'm begining to realize that this all makes me a very, very evil person in the traditional sense. Part of what makes it so bad is that I don't really care about the traditional view of evil. There are too many people crowded onto this filthy stinking planet, and everything I can do to reduce that number is of a greater moral good than any other action I can take.
Watching the Planet Earth series gives a pretty strong contrast between natural beauty and the majority of what we produce. I remember that Joe Rogan once retold his experience of flying over green mountains and fields, then arriving at the cancerous tumor on the face of the planet that is Los Angeles. In a way I'll agree with him, but take the route of disappointment rather than hatred, unless I'm at work in which case hating the people that come in the store serves as recreation. I figure that humanity has damn good potential, but it's consistently wasted in favor of excess. Instead of working harmoniously with nature we make the conscious choice to rape the land for all we can, all the while producing as many children as possible instead of aiming for either zero or negative population growth. I figure we don't necessarily need to be Earth's melanoma, but that's just the way things seem to work out for the most part.
If nothing else, I'll try my best to avoid the same mannerisms and ideals. Lack of omnipotence denies me the chance to alter the planet in any significant way, nor can I change the nature of others, but I would be abandoning the potential if I didn't at least exert some effort to stray away from the classical model of what life is supposed to be. What we have in place strikes me as little more than an advancement of primitive instincts, and the only way I see of getting away from that model would be a massive cultural and mental evolution.
