Well hello Blog, and good morning to you, viewers.
This might be a little bit quick, because I'm running out the door to go see the new visitor's center at the Capital building, but holy moley. As a people watcher, I just gotta say, people in California are inordinately pretty in comparison to the rest of the country. I'm off on Thanksgiving holiday, away from the beloved bay area, and I am just coming to realize that I am a spoiled brat. The mindset, the hipster kids, the over-all stylishness...California kicks ass on all counts.
Well, East Coast, I'm in my old home-town haunts. Wow me.
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Friday, November 12, 2010
Kids
Okay. I have nothing against kids, per se. Most of the kids I meet are pretty awesome...actually I'm finding kids a lot more tolerable than I used to in my younger days. But enough is enough.
Having kids is an entirely selfish act these days. We are way past "bust" as a species, but modern medicine is sustaining our obscene numbers. Yes, my green roots are showing -- I'm an environmentalist at heart. All the advocating and good behavior on my part can't put a dent in the monstrosity that is 7 billion in population. It was 6 billion when we spoke about population issues in undergrad! 6.5 in grad school ... 7 now. WTF is happening, people?? Can it really be considered responsible for some religions to denounce birth control?
Religions must be advocating for human rights, for "dominion" over nature, but to consider human beings as outside of nature, apart from it, as though the earth will simply bend to the will of an out-of-control replicating species. An ecosystem will bend, but eventually the singular species has the break. This "break" comes in the form of famine, drought, overall suffering. How can a religion advocate for this.
Intellectually, I get this. But when you think about yourself and that other person you've managed to find that you think might be good enough to replicate with, you think ... man, I'd sure like to see what a combo of me and him would be like. And, selfishly on my part, I'd like to be able to eat whatever I wanted for nine months without thinking about my figure.
Of course this is all theoretical at this point. If the time comes ... dammit, I might just have a lil critter. And maybe two so the kid has a friend. What IS that? Am I crazy? I recycle, I have my own meal worm bin to compost in my back yard, I haven't used a heater in five years to save energy, but I would bring forth the most energy intensive, resource guzzling, super-parasite on the planet: an American. Man. Hormones do a number on the logical brain.
So this may be my most controversial post ever. Sorry. It just crossed my mind now while I'm still rational. If I have kids, I'm sure I'll intellectually justify my decision on the other side. Like: well, the world needs more rational beings, why not some of mine? I will look back on this post and try to kill my doubt.
Check the fun stuff I've been thinking about with my Amazon links. Population Reduction is a band a friend of mine started in college. He's the drummer...and a screamer. There's only two members. He always characterized the music as "grindcore." Pop bomb I read back around then, and Idiocracy has an opening sequence that typifies a lot of what I think about the human population today ... and why maybe smart people, the ones that justify waiting or abstaining, should start cranking out a kid or two. So many conflicting messages! Help me Jeebus!
Having kids is an entirely selfish act these days. We are way past "bust" as a species, but modern medicine is sustaining our obscene numbers. Yes, my green roots are showing -- I'm an environmentalist at heart. All the advocating and good behavior on my part can't put a dent in the monstrosity that is 7 billion in population. It was 6 billion when we spoke about population issues in undergrad! 6.5 in grad school ... 7 now. WTF is happening, people?? Can it really be considered responsible for some religions to denounce birth control?
Religions must be advocating for human rights, for "dominion" over nature, but to consider human beings as outside of nature, apart from it, as though the earth will simply bend to the will of an out-of-control replicating species. An ecosystem will bend, but eventually the singular species has the break. This "break" comes in the form of famine, drought, overall suffering. How can a religion advocate for this.
Intellectually, I get this. But when you think about yourself and that other person you've managed to find that you think might be good enough to replicate with, you think ... man, I'd sure like to see what a combo of me and him would be like. And, selfishly on my part, I'd like to be able to eat whatever I wanted for nine months without thinking about my figure.
Of course this is all theoretical at this point. If the time comes ... dammit, I might just have a lil critter. And maybe two so the kid has a friend. What IS that? Am I crazy? I recycle, I have my own meal worm bin to compost in my back yard, I haven't used a heater in five years to save energy, but I would bring forth the most energy intensive, resource guzzling, super-parasite on the planet: an American. Man. Hormones do a number on the logical brain.
So this may be my most controversial post ever. Sorry. It just crossed my mind now while I'm still rational. If I have kids, I'm sure I'll intellectually justify my decision on the other side. Like: well, the world needs more rational beings, why not some of mine? I will look back on this post and try to kill my doubt.
Check the fun stuff I've been thinking about with my Amazon links. Population Reduction is a band a friend of mine started in college. He's the drummer...and a screamer. There's only two members. He always characterized the music as "grindcore." Pop bomb I read back around then, and Idiocracy has an opening sequence that typifies a lot of what I think about the human population today ... and why maybe smart people, the ones that justify waiting or abstaining, should start cranking out a kid or two. So many conflicting messages! Help me Jeebus!
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