I like it when nature is excessive. That's why I like natural disasters. All these natural disasters that've been going on, I fucking love 'em. I can't get enough of them. Ah, when nature's going crazy, throwing things around, scaring people and destroying property, I'm a happy fucking guy. I'm a happy fucking guy.
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks me in the head and kicks me in the nuts, I enjoy that.
I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None.
For those who had not already realized it, the above words are not my own but actually those of the late great George Carlin. In spite of not being mine, I fervently believe every one of the above 125 words just as if I had strung them together myself.
How miscreant of us that our "toll" as a species in existing on this planet has been the tarnishing and tainting of mother nature. Every once in a while she’s just gotta get even right?
For every one of the thousands of species that go extinct each year on this planet as a result of preventable human action there should be an unbearably intense tornado, tsunami, volcano, flood, earthquake, hurricane and drought somewhere to help balance the scales a bit. We are consciously and counter-intuitively destroying our home...do we deserve any less?
I’d love to go on (I could write paragraph after paragraph of my justifications for feeling this way), but frankly sometimes things are better short and sweet. And not only can I just not improve on the Carlin quote, but it doesn't really need any kind of clarification. I think it speaks plenty loud on its own.
Gotta love Carlin
ReplyDeleteby the way, I posted the above about 3 hours ago, but it disappeared!! Praises!
ReplyDeleteLuckily, it was still saved on the 'copy' of my copy-and-paste I did for safety's sake.
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sweet God! It deleted it a second time!!! For the love of VIRGIN!
ReplyDeleteFUCK MY LIFE!!!! A THIRD TIME!!! WHAT THE FUCK!
ReplyDeleteI read something strange earlier, I think it was in an article by Swinburne regarding the problem of evil in philosophy of religion.
ReplyDeleteHurricanes, etc. are generally called 'natural evils'. He mentioned the idea that natural evils come about because human error. As far as I saw, he did not support the idea, but he was saying it was sufficient for showing that the existence of God and the existence of natural evil are logically compatible. (It would take too long to explain any more of this.)
I wondered about this idea, though...
What would it mean if this were actually true: 'There are negative environmental happenings because humans possessing free will make bad decisions.' ?
Carlin could be interpreted as having a view somewhat like this, no? But certainly not in a spiritual sense a la Pat Robertson. (Haiti made that pact with the devil, remember? So Fuck 'Em.)
But, let's play with this idea a bit. Carlin likes it when nature kicks our ass because we rape and pillage the globe. Does our raping and pillaging cause this? Are we a disease that Mother Earth is trying to fight off? Are tornadoes and hurricanes her white blood cells?
How plausible is this? Could it be that the environment would stop destroying villages in Haiti and Africa (containing people who certainly did not do very much to deserve the ass-kicking) if humanity as a whole were as sustainable as possible?
Also worth wondering is (if this 'theory' is true) - Why does Mother Earth destroy the impoverished parts of the planet? The people there don't harm her much. They get by on next to nothing. They get ass-fucked by the civilized nations. AND they get famines, plagues, dirty water, mad-cow, AIDS epidemics, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, you name it.
If this is how Mother Earth behaves (yes, I know She isn't a real Person), then she might (just might, with a hint of sarcasm) be more of a dick than God!
HAHAHAH - BTW, I plan to post something cool about the problem of evil soon. I have been reading a good deal about it, and I want to share the coolest arguments for/against the existence of God with my comrades.
All very interesting amigo mío and my apologies for the repeated fiery hoops you had to jump through just to get that to permanently post haha.
ReplyDeleteAs far as your point though, I cannot speak for George Carlin but I certainly can for myself and for some unexplainable reason I feel as though Carlin might respond in this same way.
If the quote seemed to imply the belief that these evil deeds of humanity caused the natural disasters, then it may have been a miscommunication. What Carlin is perhaps trying to say (and what I believe myself) is that the two phenomena of man destroying nature and nature destroying man are independent of each other, yet still obviously coincide. That is, if man were to all of the sudden uniformly stop destroying nature, nature would most certainly not return the favor. It’s just that for the first time in human history we seem to be winning this little war with nature in that nature is sustaining much, much more damage on the annual basis than mankind as a species is.
It’s hilarious (and to me gratifying) to paint the image of Mother Nature the “avenger” who sends AIDS and hurricanes in the same way that our body sends antibodies to fight an invasive force, but at the end of the day there is clearly no causation linking these two. After all, the majority of the things in discussion here (e.g. earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts, floods, hurricanes, etc) have been occurring on this planet long before humans were present and would undoubtedly continue in our absence.
I‘d say then that the fact that the poorest areas of the world seem to in many ways get hit the hardest is a combination of coincidence and perception. Coincidence in the obvious sense, and perception in the sense that natural disasters and epidemics here tend to be exacerbated (e.g. AIDS) by the conditions poverty creates. Plenty of natural disasters happen in the developed nations of the world, but they tend to make slightly less of an impact due to that country’s capability to cope (as terrible as a debacle as Katrina was imagine what it would have been like if it had happened in Abidjan or Dar es Salaam as opposed to New Orleans).
That being said, I totally understand where you are coming from and I completely agree with the notion that causation between man kind’s actions and mother nature’s forces is absolutely ludicrous. I’m just saying that when mother nature does decide to get dirty and fuck things up every once in a while, I say let her have her sweet revenge. Even if it isn’t actual revenge (because “mother” nature has no free will nor consciousness for that matter) I just like the idea of man somehow being held accountable and being punished for all the shitty things we have done to this indescribably wonderful habitat we’ve been given.
And yeah man, bring on the post about evil! And anything regarding arguments for and against the existence of God sounds like something I’m trying to read too haha. I’ve still got that prayer one that is thiiiis close to being finished. Praise the virgin for these wonderful ideas!!