Thinking about things.
I don't know, I was just thinking...
I know you often see in movies and whatnot, people in planes and cars driving past or over cities, and seeing the millions of lights, that each represent a single life... but when I see that, I don't find it beautiful. I don't find it amazing, or even fascinating. I find it ugly.
Maybe it's because I have an uber-ecological view of cities, but... I just find these buildings, these gross towers of human excess rising like rotting, dying trees from the ground, repellent (if you'll excuse my prose). And ancient architecture; the Colosseum, the Parthenon, and other monuments to past human arrogance seem to me like horrible scars of pride on the face of the earth, like we, as humans, cannot justify our existence without forever marring our home, without changing it for eternity, to try and endow ourselves with some kind of divinity, as unforgiving, cruel warrior gods. To me they seem like aberrations, even despite the lives they represent.
But the problem is, isn't that disgust I feel hypocritcal? I live in a house, a fairly big house, in a large town, a huge suburban area. My life, and that of everyone I know, is based on a culture that is dependent on destroying our world. And in that sense, all "pro-green" people are hypocritical, because... well, politics are based on the same destructive mental conditioning. For example, Al Gore wishes the environment were not so screwed over. That's nice. But he goes out and makes a movie on it, which he markets-in movie theaters, in cities and towns-to people, who probably go see it, think "Oh, yeah, someone should do something," and go back. Then this movie funds his personal lifestyle, which is still destructive to the environment.
I have nothing personally against Al Gore. But I don't really see that many environmentalists going out and living... in the rainforest. Or whatever. And it seems to me like environmentalism is almost like, "I'll recycle and lobby for better gas emissions, etc." But the only way to really put an end to this mindless human destruction of something that should be precious to us to completely eradicate this mindset that is completely dependent on a gross excess of architecture. And unfortunately, that's not at all likely to happen.
I don't know. This was just something I was thinking about.
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Two notes:
1. The whole "not using LJ except for writing" thing is not really working. I keep having things to say.
2. Is anyone else confused by the fact that while writing this I was simultaneously playing music, watching John Green be hilarious, and watching America's Next Top Model?
I know you often see in movies and whatnot, people in planes and cars driving past or over cities, and seeing the millions of lights, that each represent a single life... but when I see that, I don't find it beautiful. I don't find it amazing, or even fascinating. I find it ugly.
Maybe it's because I have an uber-ecological view of cities, but... I just find these buildings, these gross towers of human excess rising like rotting, dying trees from the ground, repellent (if you'll excuse my prose). And ancient architecture; the Colosseum, the Parthenon, and other monuments to past human arrogance seem to me like horrible scars of pride on the face of the earth, like we, as humans, cannot justify our existence without forever marring our home, without changing it for eternity, to try and endow ourselves with some kind of divinity, as unforgiving, cruel warrior gods. To me they seem like aberrations, even despite the lives they represent.
But the problem is, isn't that disgust I feel hypocritcal? I live in a house, a fairly big house, in a large town, a huge suburban area. My life, and that of everyone I know, is based on a culture that is dependent on destroying our world. And in that sense, all "pro-green" people are hypocritical, because... well, politics are based on the same destructive mental conditioning. For example, Al Gore wishes the environment were not so screwed over. That's nice. But he goes out and makes a movie on it, which he markets-in movie theaters, in cities and towns-to people, who probably go see it, think "Oh, yeah, someone should do something," and go back. Then this movie funds his personal lifestyle, which is still destructive to the environment.
I have nothing personally against Al Gore. But I don't really see that many environmentalists going out and living... in the rainforest. Or whatever. And it seems to me like environmentalism is almost like, "I'll recycle and lobby for better gas emissions, etc." But the only way to really put an end to this mindless human destruction of something that should be precious to us to completely eradicate this mindset that is completely dependent on a gross excess of architecture. And unfortunately, that's not at all likely to happen.
I don't know. This was just something I was thinking about.
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Two notes:
1. The whole "not using LJ except for writing" thing is not really working. I keep having things to say.
2. Is anyone else confused by the fact that while writing this I was simultaneously playing music, watching John Green be hilarious, and watching America's Next Top Model?