Are we cool enough as a species to make it? I mean this seriously, because the impression one can get from surfing certain arenas of the internet, or if one is unfortunate enough to own a television set, there is a lot of stuff out there that can lead quickly to the conclusion that well… maybe we deserve to join the dinosaurs and await a new half-life as odd museum peices… our bones put together just slightly wrong enough to make us interesting for the next wave of life to take a shot here.
Ok, now that we’re away from the main page, click the media player here…
My Own Planet - The Flaming Lips
This tune is both applicable to the discussion and should give you ample time to read my quick rant and write out a short comment of your own.
So my question is how does it all balance out? Are the beautiful, intelligent people out there doing enough to counter the incredible waves of human stupidity that are being dissemenated across our cultural consciousness?
Even a short list of the various faults and failings of society is enough to drive the trully cognizant to strong drink. We’re destroying our physical atmosphere, and that marvelous invention called the television is doing it’s level best to lower the bar in terms of what passes for intelligent life here.
We are getting dumbed down on a daily basis. And for every artifact I stumble across that makes me smile and feel proud to be a human, I find or am informed of at least four things that make my skin crawl and wonder…
What’s going on here? Certainly the fact that we posses a brain and the critical faculties that have allowed the creation of such things as the arts means that there is something more here to life than the constant degredation of human-life that seems an intrinsic part of reality.
It’s x-mas time and we’re running around buying up violent toys and video-games, at any time of the year you can hop on the internet and with a bare minimum of searching come across images and videos of people who have quite literally traded their dignity for money. And at the same time, all across the ‘real world’ there are millions who would gladly make the same exchange if they had any dignity left to sell.
I know this is rough and uneven, the truth is that I really don’t know how to go about discussing this without recourse to strong drink and the sort of arm-flailing that only kermit the frog would recognize as gestures. I don’t know how to discuss this without building myself up into a good frothing lather and spouting fierce indictments of what passes for social morality.
What do you think?