Hmm.
I found a flaw with my last post. I went on and on about how i fend everything off with my brain and nothing really gets in, but there's a crack in the fortress. I contemplated the whole idea further and realized it's only people i defend against. It occured to me that music has free riegn in my brain-brain, it stomps around and plays with chemicals and has a jolly old time. So i went to begin this rectifying post and thought to m'self gosh, music isn't even the only one. All the political nonsense, natural disasters, people being evil, bad luck, disease, stress, everything that causes displeasure in the world found all sorts of room in my head: could this be because there's no people in there? By leaving people out did i make all sorts of room for crappiness? That's disconcerting. 12 year olds are idiots, how didn't i see that one coming. Oh that's right, as a little kid you haven't quite learned to be pessimistic and paranoid yet so badness rarely occurs to you unless you can see it. Or taste it, kids eat weird things.
So anyway team, what should i do? I wonder if i can squish it outof my brain and be cool again. Eh. I don't think i could do that, but it would be awesome if i could. Did you know i really don't care that much about the environment? Maybe i'm being too practical, but i think the idea of us "harmin Mother Nature" is incredibly egocentric and comparable to a tick worrying about.. something very silly. I shall let Aesop speak for me. He wrote a fable about a fly who landed on a rhino, got all settled, and then called out to the rhino "I apologize if i'm inconveniencing you too much" and the rhino said "Actually, i didn't even know you were there" and then the moral that went along with the fable was "The smaller the mind, the greater the conciet." How do i remember this fable from my little kid days, you ask? I was fascinated that the genius Aesop had managed to comprise an entire, coherent sentence in which every other word was "the". 'Mazing. Seriously, a planet over five billion years old, a mighty celestial object formed by the implosion of a dust cloud and undergoing cataclysmic geological changes until it cooled a bit and "settled down" into a fiery mass of inconceivable energy frosted with a bit of dirt on which trees grow and water flows is not going to be bothered by a few humans playing around with chemicals that already exist. The Gods of Tense and Punctuation started crying when i wrote that sentence. The Earth doesn't give a d*mn about what we do, we could unleash every single nuclear atomic Hellfest we possess all at once, and it would be nothing compared to the Gas-Clouded Volcanic Upraising of Death the world was under for so many millions of years before us. What happens if we destroy all life on earth? A few organic molecules are rearranged, oh well.
So anyway team, what should i do? I wonder if i can squish it outof my brain and be cool again. Eh. I don't think i could do that, but it would be awesome if i could. Did you know i really don't care that much about the environment? Maybe i'm being too practical, but i think the idea of us "harmin Mother Nature" is incredibly egocentric and comparable to a tick worrying about.. something very silly. I shall let Aesop speak for me. He wrote a fable about a fly who landed on a rhino, got all settled, and then called out to the rhino "I apologize if i'm inconveniencing you too much" and the rhino said "Actually, i didn't even know you were there" and then the moral that went along with the fable was "The smaller the mind, the greater the conciet." How do i remember this fable from my little kid days, you ask? I was fascinated that the genius Aesop had managed to comprise an entire, coherent sentence in which every other word was "the". 'Mazing. Seriously, a planet over five billion years old, a mighty celestial object formed by the implosion of a dust cloud and undergoing cataclysmic geological changes until it cooled a bit and "settled down" into a fiery mass of inconceivable energy frosted with a bit of dirt on which trees grow and water flows is not going to be bothered by a few humans playing around with chemicals that already exist. The Gods of Tense and Punctuation started crying when i wrote that sentence. The Earth doesn't give a d*mn about what we do, we could unleash every single nuclear atomic Hellfest we possess all at once, and it would be nothing compared to the Gas-Clouded Volcanic Upraising of Death the world was under for so many millions of years before us. What happens if we destroy all life on earth? A few organic molecules are rearranged, oh well.
posted by seamus at 2:41 PM
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My head is filled with all sorts of stuff like kids dying of starvation and young soldiers getting limbs amputated and species going extinct and the enviornment getting filled with toxins so that babies are born with birth defects and glaciers melting and black kids getting harrassed by white cops and women getting beaten up by husbands and rainforests getting cut down ....
The thing that keeps me sane and not just desperately sad all the time is that I do let people into my head. Without family and friendship and students in my life -- I think all that stuff would be overwhelming. It's the human connections, and all that I learn from the people in my life, that keep me sane.
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