Thursday, May 13, 2004
People Suck
What the hell is wrong with people. I’ve just been watching the mini-series Band of Brothers about a tiny smidgen of World War 2. Troy is coming to the screen in the near future. A few months ago, it was Cold Mountain, about the Civil War. There’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Blue Max about World War 1. The Battleship Potemkin will get you a bit of one of several Russian revolutions. Do I really need to go. What are all these movies about?
People killing people by the hundreds, the thousands, the millions. Wouldn’t you think we’d learn by now? We haven’t learned a goddamned thing in thousands of years of full scale butchery. I’ll take that back, we have learned to kill better. We can now kill more people for less reasons with less work than ever before. And why do we kill them? To make sure they understand that killing people is bad. I mean, what the hell?
Just look what is going on now. There’s a bunch of kids in Iraq who are now in deep shit over mistreatment of prisoners. These are the same kids who are dodging shrapnel filled bombs (oops IEDs – sounds more polite) in some dried out country with no idea of when they might be able to leave. Halliburton is making billions over there and we’re taking some poor kid who’s making $25,000 a year to court because they humiliated someone.
The president said, “Bring ‘em on” and they did. The goofballs over there are chopping heads off on Iraqi MTV! They’re shooting kids who were told to go there and protect the USA against all enemies. Just make sure you pick and choose your enemies. After all, blowing up a city is fine and dandy, but go around thinking you lock up some prisoner in a dark cell and get away with it.
This is really bullshit. Let’s just get all the nuclear countries together – the good and the bad. (and why is a nuke in Pakistani hands good, but in North Korean hands bad?) and just push all the buttons together. Have a block party and press the goddamned buttons. Quit screwing around with killing a few thousand at a time and kill everyone everywhere all at once. Why have an inner city drive-by when you can vaporize the whole city. Screw blowing up a bus with bomb strapped to your ass. Think big! Vitrify the entire country. We can give the world back to some mutated ecoli bacteria sitting in a mud puddle in what used to be the Caribbean and start all over again.
People suck!
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