I’ve been sober now for a little over 3 1/2 years. I’m 32. These last few years have only confirmed a big part of why I used to drink so much.
My eyes have been opened even more to all the damage going on in the world, both in the environment and within ourselves. What a horrible fucking species we are as a whole. So many egotistical, careless, selfish, over-consuming, seemingly know-it-all, good-willed talkers but will never make real change, parasites. I’m not saying I’m perfect, nowhere near, but fuck how can so many people not know that their day to day choices are damaging and killing our own species, making the world a living hell for so many other living beings, and fucking up our environment in just about every way possible. Some of them would say they do know, yet they continue to go about their way, contributing over and over to the very same things they say they despise. Why? All in the name of more material shit that we can wear, drive, fly, watch, shove down our fat fucking throats? What a parasite we are as a species. Yeah there are good ones I know, but fuck how long have people been saying that? When will there ever be enough good people to the point where they’re the rule not the exception? I’m not holding my breath.
I don’t see our societal addictions to horrible food, treatment of animals and destruction of their habitats, love for material shit, frivolous technology, obsession with personal cars and trucks, procreating more than we can handle, and advancement of weapons to destroy as many humans and structures as possible (just to name a few) letting up anytime soon. Actually, if psychology is right, our addiction to all this will only continue to accelerate. Addictions that go untreated only go one way, right? We’re an addict that doesn’t want help, and our disease is only progressing. I’m sober and I can say with a sober and clear mind: fuck this world. Actually, more precisely: fuck just about every human on this planet. You’ve ruined it. No matter how much you may not think you’ve been a part of the problem, statistically you most likely have been. If you are part of that majority and you’re reading this now, why don’t you change?
Really look hard at your life, your every day choices and your actions. Don’t be upset at me for pointing it out. I didn’t choose to join this shit show, but I’m really glad I can choose to leave it.
-df
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Great post, I agree with everything and youve given me the first good reason I’ve heard in a long time to stay sober. I’m not going to turn a blind eye, not going to drink away the guilt of being part of a scum species that’s shitting its own bed. Yes I’m part of the problem, I don’t take offense to the implication because it’s true. Even though I’ve done lots to reverse the damage I’ve caused, the fact is I’m still part of the problem and I wish more people would accept this realization and try harder. Sobriety (literal and figurative) is the first step. Maybe suicide is the next. Who knows. The only unacceptable path is to keep doing what we’ve been doing.
You might enjoy a video by George Carlin called Saving the Planet.
There are some costs which can’t be abated by an individual unless they have sufficient resource. I’ve done what I can to economize, reuse, and lessen my impact. My poverty keeps me in a house that is attached to a grid powered by coal. My city is one of the many American cities choked with roads built for cars, one of the least eco friendly modes of transportation ever invented.
Across the river, there’s a refinery. I’ve been inside the grounds, it’s a polluting time bomb, who knows what sort of birth defects we’ll get so that people can have their gasoline.
Talking on solutions though; soil enrichment, because climate change is at heart a soil crisis. Healthy soil absorbs carbon, and better yet promotes vegetative growth which also sucks up carbon. I’ve eliminated yard waste as an export for my home. Maybe it is a small thing, but when I grow things in the soil I sweated for, it feels good, whole, like maybe there is hope.
We aren’t meant to be greater than a sick parasite. Slow minds, weak bodies, the need to practice something life long to gain the tiniest ability to create, so futile, so forgettable. It’s no wonder we have so much tech to carry our useless forms that cannot survive a fraction as well as animals do. And, on a perfect for life planet, for a species to need what we need is comedicaly, satiricaly, pathetic.
Being this weak and futile makes us only want power so much more resulting in the greed and materialsim we see, because deep down we are empty, we have no real tools to survive, we never had, designed to be desperate and destitute we are.
Our utter lack of any real intelligence millienia ago, coupled with our useless bodies drove us into developing agriculture, mass breeding animals for slaughteer, screwing eachother for survival, then tech, property and finally the monetised shithole we suffer today.
Duped by missevolution, we are, in my view, a most grisly mistake (or joke) of mother nature. And like the weaker will project an image of strength in compensation, here we sit proclaiming ourselves smartest of all species…and yet, the mere existence of money, countries and our various quarrelling, debases these claims entirely.
That most of us repeat the same week again and again, to the purpose of paying bills, further to a system that depends on our planets death: it offsets any technological and intellectual achivement, nulling us out to the lowest species on this planet.
The only solution I can see: Halt having kids, this will, in time, collpase the pyramid, reduce the lock of mass in cascading us helplessly to a place nobody wants to be, and at its most extreme implementation, (population reduced 95%), will begin to disarm those that the system has favoured to rule and manipulate us.
I am quite convinced that the crux of our issues at this time is the sheer 7.9 billion X underdeveloped, missevolved, diluted apes, caging eachother in.
For perhaps 20-25 years, no kids, from no nation, whatsoever, it would go a long way, I feel, in reducing the infection upon Earth.
Clarification: by population control, I mean only through halting the birth rate, non biologically, at a point before conception even begins. ‘Easier said than done’, doesn’t even begin to describe the challenge upon education and societal percpetion that is required to show people today and in the near future, how having kids is pure detriment.