Christopher Lynk has some words to say.

Old Enough to Take Care of Itself

Life is a pretty fragile thing. As we know it, life can't survive being on fire, life can't survive being crushed under a large shoe, and life certainly cannot tolerate another season of Queer Eye for the Texas Guy, tonight at 7/8 central. The very prospect of life happening is as slim to none as the late Christopher Reeve and Stephen Hawking starting a metal hair band named after the triceratops fortress boss from Super Mario World. (Those are the odds the intelligent believe, those who place their fate in one of numerous flying sky wizards are often believed to think life is even more rare.) I've sat through more environmental documentaries involving our parasitic overtaking to this planet than I care to count, and I lavish the factual, yet sensationalistic data they provide to me. Perhaps it's not all true. Perhaps the global temperature won't raise by a massive two degrees in the next century, crushing coastal human-hives under meters of crashing surf. Perhaps we won't ever run out of precious metals and resources that we excavate from the ground. After all, we can always just buy it from a poorer nation.  


Advanced, sentient machines from 300 years in the future got it right. Humankind is a viral infection on this planet. We've invented cities, styrofoam containers, and have been working hard at producing vehicles to take us to cities so we can buy things in styrofoam containers and use as much of the fossilized remains of dinosaurs as possible.

I had a conversation with my mother a few weeks ago about the benefits of solar electricity. I mentioned that there are ways to sub-contract your roof to help pay for the costs of installing a solar collection grid, while dividing the credits earned with the third party. Granted, I didn't research my proposal, I could not confirm for certain that they would be able to find such a co-op; this was merely an idea. My mother, to defunct me, was quite confident that her homes' energy was not provided by coal, oil, or nuclear, but instead by electricity, which disproves that silly law of entropy that only the crazies believe in. She would have none of it, and proceeded to remind me that I should be trying to create grandkids for her.

For the longest time in my life, lack of education was a concept that really scared me. Now that I'm older and my perception has been honed, I realize that the problem is not a lack of education, but the refusal of learning. The resources are out there. They are free, available 24/7, and my friend Google is extremely willing to provide them to you. Compounded with this is the phenomenon that causes the human mind to formulate truths to fill in all of the blanks it has. Take Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen for example, who thinks Earth looks a fraction of a percent its actual age.


You go girl! Look at the confidence! It is a shame our best and brightest are always underneath those who have say. It's obvious that since the Earth has been around for a while, without all us hippies crying about air pollution and the strip mining of our natural resources, that the planet will do just fine no matter how hard we play with it. No worries, Jesus will come back and take all the believers to the magical place in the clouds long before they have to deal with the mess they caused. Now that's an insurance plan I'd like.


Lynk
Written on Tuesday, 07 July 2009 18:15 by Lynk

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