Thursday, January 2, 2014

Finished the Sun so long ago

I've been gone for a long long time. I'm back. I finished Global Warming Sun a couple years ago. Here is how it came out.
  I can't remember how much I have already gone into the power of nature, folly of man series but I have continued down that road both artistically and philosophically. I have though a lot about all the mistakes we are making as a species. We have lost our fear/respect for nature and ultimately that will be our undoing. Here is an analogy:

Imagine if you will, A kid goes to kindergarden and everything they are teaching, testing and talking about makes absolutely no sense to him whatsoever. He is not a stupid kid, in fact by the time kindergarden has rolled around he has accomplished far more than any other entity on the planet, however, the things valued in kindergarden are just not important.

So the kid fails kindergarden and has to repeat, and then he fails another twenty times so now he is a twenty five year old kindergardener running around with the regular kindergardeners. Now another thing about this kid, he is hugely athletic strong as any twenty five year old man not evil but somewhat ambivalent to our accepted morals. He has killed kids before. Oh another thing is that nobody really watches what happens out at recess at all, I mean at all. So this behemoth represents nature.

Now imagine a second kid come into the class that really gets everything being taught at school. He loves to read and do math. He can spell and is awesome at science and he gets all A's and is killing it in kindergarden and the kid begins to get a big head. He gets pretty cocky. He walks around the playground looking to prove how intelligent and better than everyone else he is. This kid represents the human race.

In the second kid's need to prove he is the best kid in the school he begins to harass the first kid. He disregards him, he insults him, he slaps, kicks, laughs at, pees on, and rapes the first kid. Now the first kid has been very patient with the second kid. He has put up with him for the most part aside from the odd tsunami, fire, hurricane and such he has allowed the second kid a LOT of leeway. But the second kid takes this as a sign of weakness and proof that he does not need to respect the first kid at all and actually starts to believe that the first kid was put in the school to serve him. Of course this is not the case and the second kid is only alive because of the grace of the first.

That is where we are and we need to wake up and smell the stupidity that we hold up as intelligence.


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