Saturday, March 15, 2014

A Modest Bitterness - 3/15/2014

I've seen a lot of things lately that I don't understand. Lots of things online, both recent and historical, that go on and on about the terrible failures of man. Our cruelties, stupidities, selfishness and crimes. They repeatedly display humanity as an utterly amoral species without redeeming features. Or, more commonly, some subset of humanity.

To those who say these things I say I agree, and want to follow your logic to its inevitable, legitimate conclusion. Because humanity (and all of its subsets, one way or another) is irredeemably awful, vicious, vile, disgusting, evil and heartless, I propose that we take the obvious next step.

The '70s saw the movement called Zero Population Growth, aimed at reducing the expansion of the numbers of the human race to zero, so that we could stabilize and work to improve ourselves and our planet. My suggestion is that we remove one word from that policy.

I now propose the Zero Population policy. Its intent is to eliminate the irretrievably damaging and useless human race from the planet Earth. Citizens will be asked to work on a grass-roots level to take themselves and their families out of the ecosystem on a permanent basis. Centers for learning about the various processes that will result in this removal will be made available, although most of us seem to be pretty much naturals at that kind of thing (since humanity is really nothing more than a trumped-up killer ape).

So go to your supermarkets and purchase lots of drain cleaner. Make use of all of those nice bang-making devices so many of us own. Find tall buildings and bridges. Find out how fast your car can really move before aiming it at the concrete wall.

Here's to the end of the human race. We slaughtered and destroyed, we did lots of damage, and lots of us got a great deal of enjoyment pointing out all of our flaws without mercy, compassion or justice. Which is, after all, the most human of mind sets.


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