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Merry Earth Day

think of all the stupid holidays that western civilization celebrates--- everything from christmas to valentines, all holding rituals that require one to cough up the bucks & perpetuate the empire & the riches in this one plot of land aren’t even given to all of its occupants, so imagine how stupid these holidays are to those who live outside the empire, whose own lives having nothing to do with us at all, except for the fact that our policeman will beat them to death if they don’t do what we say--- wouldn’t it make more sense to scrap all the ridiculous holidays, whose fictitious meanings hold no real substance & instead to focus on the physical of which we all have in common, evidence of our evolution & evidence of our survival, which lies beneath all our feet as we step each day creating more ways to destroy it, killing more of each other in order to exploit it--- certainly a day for the earth is not enough, nor a month or a year--- as the damage that we have done strangles our own existence with more experts insisting that we have passed the tipping point already, or are so dangerously close we’ve not a minute to spare, there seems nothing merry about one day in which we all pretend to give a ****.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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