Deathly crazy!
We are all more or less deathly crazy
Some and sometimes much more than others
But always deathly crazy
(This COULD change???)
Lack of sharing
Too little caring …
Too much complacency, apathy, self-induced ignorance, de facto rotten immorality
Poverty; slums, favelas, ghettos, shanty towns; starvation, death???
Out of sight, out of mind
Deathly crazy
(This could be changed)
Nazi extermination camps and Soviet Gulags
Khmer Rouge mass killings, Rwandan Tutsi killings, Congo killing fields
Bosnia’s Srebrenica ethnic cleansing
Bear River Massacre, Sand Creek, Marias, Wounded Knee
U.S./Saudi killings in Yemen; many U.S. military killings elsewhere
And on … and on … and on …
So very deathly crazy
(But this could be changed)
Plowing out prairies, clear-cutting forests, damming rivers & streams
Constant biocide spraying to date of fields across the world after WW II
Over-grazing, over-browsing; so many dogs, cats
So many shrimp, carp, tilapia (and people)
So many individuals of domesticated species–crop species; fowl, swine, bovine
Artificialization-desertification
Cars, cars, cars; semis, semis, semis; pick-em-up trucks; recreationals …
Concrete, asphalt
McMansions and true mansions, excessive air-conditioning
So many mowers and blowers
Exotic artificial landscapes
Exotic and synthetic foods
Stuff, plastic … stuff, stuff, stuff
Fossil energy and materials, mining/mining/mining, Haber-Bosch, MANufacturing
Rampant energy transformations, anthropomorphic global-climate change
So very, very deathly crazy for all of humanity
(But this could change???)
Science/SARS-CoV-2/need to manage COVID-19 is a hoax
MY freedom is my sole soul desire
Masking? Hell no!
And I’ll get as close to people as I (selfishly)desire
Vaccination!
Not in MY bless(ed) body
No matter the clearance, & recognition of ecological-community need
From morally ethical scientists, intellectuals, statespersons, expert bureaucrats
No matter a desperate need for positively ethical applied community ecologists/PEACEmakers
Why, why, why are we deathly crazy
(This COULD be changed)
Guns, AR-15s, nuclear arms, death drones
And more and more arms
Suicides, domestic violence and homicides, school shootings and DEATH, gun accidents
War … wars …
Human stupidity
Lack of critical thinking and decision-making
Deathly crazy
(But this could change)
Trophy hunting, hunting for sport
Rather than “hunting-and-gathering”
And instead of working toward regeneration
Of dynamic homeostatic symbioses
For all including all species
Deathly crazy
(This could change!)
More, more, more
For the blessed Haves
For the arrogant chosen ones
For GOD’s children
Disparity, overshoot, biocapacity drawdown
Who cares as long as I have my sheltering walls and artificial go(o)dness
As long as I can fly
To a fenced-in, walled-in, protected artificially-built space
Of cars, concrete, asphalt, plastics, stuff, stuff, stuff
A place of super-environmentally, super-genetically modified Nature
Perhaps with trophy-bucks with a gillion points
Deathly crazy
(But this could change?)
Neil’s “Look at Mother Nature on the run …”
Roberto Carlos’ “As Beleias”
Dylan’s “License to Kill”
Walsh’s “We’re killing everything that’s alive
And anyone who tries to deny it
Wears a tie
And gets paid to lie.”
Joni’s “Big Yellow Taxi”
McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction”
The man in black’s “Don’t Go Near the Water”
Journalist, scholar Robert Jensen’s thoughts on a dying? … or dead??? world
Adam Wright’s lamenting verse piercingly, hauntingly says it all
“I don’t doubt for a minute …
We’ll get right to rightin’ all these wrongs
Someday we will
But I wonder if the world can wait that long”
And much more by the better and best poets
Truthfully spoken in many languages
“I said come on, people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
Right now
Right now”
(“Everybody” means love, respect, admiration, & wisdom for all biota
This includes other species, ethnicities, tribes, cultures, religions
With particular histories, education backgrounds, socio-economic statuses
Behaviors, languages spoken, skin colors, smells
Sexual orientations and persuasions, types of dress and ornamentation
Etc., etc., etc.)
We are deathly crazy
But this could be changed
This must be changed
Now!
……………..
pbm
7 S’s / VV->^^
