Sophisticated. Mm.
I have to say, I am fed up to here with all this pratting about how humans are the greatest things to ever walk the Earth. We build houses, bombs, capitalism, chemicals to treat our unnatural diseases, schools to trap our children in so we don't have to face the fact that we should have aborted (cotton. willow. bark.), etc. And yet... "But that's only the bad stuff! I mean, we wouldn't have any of the good stuff unless we had the bad stuff!"
... I think that I may have a slightly different view of what 'good' is. Because pepperoni pizza and iPods don't fit my definition.
Out here, in the middle of Colorado, you can see that we were never meant to be here, not even the overglorified Natives. It's too hot in the summer; because this place is plainsland verging into mountains, there is very little cover, and even then... there's very little to eat. There are few berries, fewer trees, and no trees or bushes that produce in a large enough and consistent enough amount to sustain us. The air is dry and there is very little water, which is why the common method of death by exposure is dehydration - a horrible way to die... and one we were never meant to die from. Dehydration destroys us. I'm not stupid enough to think that nature is malicious, nor stupid enough to think that DNA will waste us for the sake of its own propagation. Which is also malice, by the way; most people just don't realize that callous use is malicious because it is so common in capitalism, and so necessary.
The animals here were meant to live, barring the ones that come out during the noon periods; that's how you can tell the native creatures from the non-natives, here. In Washington State you can tell by what creatures huddle away just after a rainfall, and which ones burst out in every way they can. Rain is life there. Here, shade is life.
Rabbits are small and low to the ground... except for the grazing animals like bison, all of the animals are small and capable of hunching low to the ground. Coyotes, crows, mice, prairie dogs; they're all capable of creating their own shelter from the earth. Humans were never able to; we had to use the unnatural to survive where we are not natural, which makes sense. If we tried to live naturally here, as stupid and haughty as we are, nature would eat us. The bison moved out of the dry-plains areas as spring and the rainfalls left because they wouldn't be able to survive. The Pueblo people were the only ones who managed at all well to live with the scrub desert... and they, before they were exterminated, were quickly becoming a post-human race. We are not meant to live here. Your swollen head does not provide an excuse for taking what was never yours from someone else.
That said, humans are truly amazing. There is no other race in this world that can move into an area that is naturally inhospitable to them, use technology and artifice to change its surface, and... make it even more inhospitable. But to everyone, instead of just them.
Cities are wastelands. Concrete jungles where you cannot safely obtain either life or death, but are forcibly held in limbo. They poison and sap you.
Suburbs aren't wastelands. They are the literal embodiment of Hell.
No food, no water, no place to rest; it's all owned. No matter what good things humans might have done, there is nothing that can redeem this.
At this point, barring the sudden miracle of 11/12 the Earth's human population committing suicide, the best thing we can do is press the red button. It's the only thing that will allow anyone else to survive.
Humans aren't smart, they're just viciously inconsiderate.
... I think that I may have a slightly different view of what 'good' is. Because pepperoni pizza and iPods don't fit my definition.
Out here, in the middle of Colorado, you can see that we were never meant to be here, not even the overglorified Natives. It's too hot in the summer; because this place is plainsland verging into mountains, there is very little cover, and even then... there's very little to eat. There are few berries, fewer trees, and no trees or bushes that produce in a large enough and consistent enough amount to sustain us. The air is dry and there is very little water, which is why the common method of death by exposure is dehydration - a horrible way to die... and one we were never meant to die from. Dehydration destroys us. I'm not stupid enough to think that nature is malicious, nor stupid enough to think that DNA will waste us for the sake of its own propagation. Which is also malice, by the way; most people just don't realize that callous use is malicious because it is so common in capitalism, and so necessary.
The animals here were meant to live, barring the ones that come out during the noon periods; that's how you can tell the native creatures from the non-natives, here. In Washington State you can tell by what creatures huddle away just after a rainfall, and which ones burst out in every way they can. Rain is life there. Here, shade is life.
Rabbits are small and low to the ground... except for the grazing animals like bison, all of the animals are small and capable of hunching low to the ground. Coyotes, crows, mice, prairie dogs; they're all capable of creating their own shelter from the earth. Humans were never able to; we had to use the unnatural to survive where we are not natural, which makes sense. If we tried to live naturally here, as stupid and haughty as we are, nature would eat us. The bison moved out of the dry-plains areas as spring and the rainfalls left because they wouldn't be able to survive. The Pueblo people were the only ones who managed at all well to live with the scrub desert... and they, before they were exterminated, were quickly becoming a post-human race. We are not meant to live here. Your swollen head does not provide an excuse for taking what was never yours from someone else.
That said, humans are truly amazing. There is no other race in this world that can move into an area that is naturally inhospitable to them, use technology and artifice to change its surface, and... make it even more inhospitable. But to everyone, instead of just them.
Cities are wastelands. Concrete jungles where you cannot safely obtain either life or death, but are forcibly held in limbo. They poison and sap you.
Suburbs aren't wastelands. They are the literal embodiment of Hell.
No food, no water, no place to rest; it's all owned. No matter what good things humans might have done, there is nothing that can redeem this.
At this point, barring the sudden miracle of 11/12 the Earth's human population committing suicide, the best thing we can do is press the red button. It's the only thing that will allow anyone else to survive.
Humans aren't smart, they're just viciously inconsiderate.