Karma and Galactic Pissants
Today has been one of those strange weather days. My home state along with four others was under a tornado watch for over eight hours as I sat here with one eye on the keyboard, the other on the sky and an ear cocked to weather reports. For whatever reason, my town escaped this horrid clash of hot and cold air, but others were not so fortunate, and all in all, the whole day seems to prove the insignificance and basic uselessness of humankind. In fact, all weather phenomenon and natural catastrophes lead to the same conclusion -- we're too smug in our arrogance, basic ignorance, and dreams of the glory of superiority and empiricism.
Proof?
We have no ability to accurately cause, predict or halt the power or paths of tornados or hurricanes. We have no control of earthquakes, sand storms, tsunamis, landslides, floods, falling meteors, thunderstorms or just plain rain. If you can't corral, control, and dictate to Mother Nature, how can any human beings delude themselves into thinking they can be "superpowers?" The largest, most technologically advanced military in the universe cannot subdue the weather, yet power hungry humans who can't control their own urges are convinced they can subdue nations.
Humanity is only a galactic pissant, scurrying around in great self importance through their little tunnels, thinking they can lay aside all manner of wealth for a rainy day, thinking their individual and collective desires have preeminence. Except, Mom Nature has a giant aerosol can of Cosmic Raid to knock us down to size when we get too enraptured with ourselves. Now, if she would only be more precise in her targeting rather than doing the greatest damage to the small worker ants with the least ability to renew themselves after a destructive event. A few solid spritzs of that Raid on power hungry and greedy leadership just might replace hubris with humility, corruption with compassion, and unquenchable hunger for more and richer spoils with a craving for fairness and peace.
Today has been one of those strange weather days. My home state along with four others was under a tornado watch for over eight hours as I sat here with one eye on the keyboard, the other on the sky and an ear cocked to weather reports. For whatever reason, my town escaped this horrid clash of hot and cold air, but others were not so fortunate, and all in all, the whole day seems to prove the insignificance and basic uselessness of humankind. In fact, all weather phenomenon and natural catastrophes lead to the same conclusion -- we're too smug in our arrogance, basic ignorance, and dreams of the glory of superiority and empiricism.
Proof?
We have no ability to accurately cause, predict or halt the power or paths of tornados or hurricanes. We have no control of earthquakes, sand storms, tsunamis, landslides, floods, falling meteors, thunderstorms or just plain rain. If you can't corral, control, and dictate to Mother Nature, how can any human beings delude themselves into thinking they can be "superpowers?" The largest, most technologically advanced military in the universe cannot subdue the weather, yet power hungry humans who can't control their own urges are convinced they can subdue nations.
Humanity is only a galactic pissant, scurrying around in great self importance through their little tunnels, thinking they can lay aside all manner of wealth for a rainy day, thinking their individual and collective desires have preeminence. Except, Mom Nature has a giant aerosol can of Cosmic Raid to knock us down to size when we get too enraptured with ourselves. Now, if she would only be more precise in her targeting rather than doing the greatest damage to the small worker ants with the least ability to renew themselves after a destructive event. A few solid spritzs of that Raid on power hungry and greedy leadership just might replace hubris with humility, corruption with compassion, and unquenchable hunger for more and richer spoils with a craving for fairness and peace.
posted by kaz at 9:05 PM
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