Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

There’s a passage I found, which people on the website where it came from were raving about. I think it’s worth noting, because it insightfully sums up the true destructive nature that our society brings to the world. We are so powerful as a species, and we are shirking our responsibilities to our future, and generations to come. I would hope anyone who is “pro-life” would read the following, and reflect on their lifestyle - to see if it meets the demands they place at the feet of pregnant women. Are they preparing the world for the children they insist must be born at any cost?

Why are world leaders leaving people with no purpose in life other than to “improve the economy”? Are we that aimless as an intelligent species as to be only concerned about making money? Is that humanity’s goal - make more money than the last guy? If it is, we should remember that money can’t buy happiness, and we can’t breathe or eat money. It’s difficult to work for things other than “the economy” unless we feel safe. The economy improves during wartime, because no one feels safe and thus is willing to work themselves to death for the greater good of their side.

Rashers101

November 14, 2006 01:20 AM

I evade my personal responsibility for the things I choose to do. I blame the government, the oil companies, George Bush, the economy, the wealthy and anybody else I can think of for the destruction that my lifestyle causes.

I put my comfort, my convenience and my conformity ahead of the lives and livelihoods of thousands of future generations, and I try not to think too much about my daily contribution to the destruction of the world that was left to me by thousands of past generations. I put myself far, far ahead of my ancestors and decedents and take from them for the most trivial of reasons.

I ignore the real human pain, suffering and death that my behaviour causes. I turn the page, switch the channel, and change the topic of conversation. I pretend that the science isn’t definitive yet, or that there’s no point in changing before others do, and I convince myself that ’scientists’ will come up with a technological solution that will make my lifestyle and me OK.

I avoid, I deny, I justify and rationalise, I pretend, I project, I squirm and squeeze and do whatever I can to maintain my concept of myself as a good person while still doing what I do. I evade my moral responsibility a day at a time in the hope that reality will somehow be different tomorrow morning.

I steal from those who live far away from me, and who I do not know because I see their pain as cartoon pain, and not fully real. I causally destroy what future generations will depend upon to live because they have yet to be born and it is only me, and my time and my normalcy that is important.

I am like those who, sixty years ago, did their jobs and lived their normal lives and didn’t ask questions about where their jewish neighbours had gone. I am like those who participated in slavery and other atrocities, except that the effects of my crimes will outlast all those others.

And it is OK, because today I am normal, and busy, and have other things on my mind and, if what I do is really so bad so many people wouldn’t be doing the same, would they?

But when, in the hours before I die, I think back upon my life and what it has meant, I must do one thing. I must hope and hope and pray and pray that there is nothing beyond life and beyond time and beyond myself, that there is no balance, no karma, no morality and no justice.

Because if there is, and I do what I do, knowing what I know….

Well, lets not think about that.

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