D. Montgomery said:
We have the history that the "white man" ran the Indians off and proceeded to destroy everything in his wake, and now we have the white man saying that he's done all the destruction possible, so the Indians can't kill a few whales.
An anomaly of history. A real cultural problem. A real philosophical problem. I wish I knew the answer.
I think the human race just as well give up on the idea of "preservation". It should be obvious that all races and cultures have the single-minded focus of defoliating and ruining any "natural" surroundings.
The reasons certain cultures seem more "attuned" to a "natural" relationship to the planet include things like rampant bacterial infections wiping out large numbers of their group in one fell swoop.
Had their numbers been larger the native americans would have fucked up the North American continent many moons ago
Like the little pot-bellied Africans, denuding their own lands and then waging war on one another over over who has the largest bundle of sticks....it's pathetic, a fitting ending to a fluke in evolution. A creature that seeks to destroy it's host outright....even viral infections are smarter than that!
Ha!
Humans suck.....we are like a mite infestation that won't go away, a persistent blood sucking parasite that denounces anything not human. The modern day "native americans" are for the most part much more concerned with running bingo parlors and getting liquored up than any bullshit cultural heritage. It's a sham, it's past, they have arrived at the same scummy juncture in their evolution as the European mongrels that beat them out of their territories fair and square.
The "gift" we have that could conceivably make a difference, our capacity for "reason" and "logic", is dramatically overshadowed by the innate capacity to be programmed into mindless sheep who buy any lie that comes along, be it religious or political.
If I offer you a refuge not of this world, and tell you that all of your "worldly suffering" matters not, you will line up like so many suckling calves and get drunk off the milk.
Until humanity is purged of the lie of religion, and faces the cold dark reality of being a very long shot in a game of craps, the planet is ultimately doomed....there is no over-riding reason to protect that which is assumed to be "worldly" and undesirable.
Maybe next time. |
