Post-holidays Tsunami

DemonSpawn

Date:
10/01/2005

Well, I'm glad that's over. Another commercial holiday (mostly) successfully dealt with. I was fortunate enough to throw name in a most supreme manner while technically passed out, all before the stroke of midnight, which I managed to avoid by being non compus mentus at the time.

I hate the Xmas holidays. Now I'm just waiting for all the brats to go back to school, so that the traffic jams become predictable again.

As far as the Tsunami is concerned, I'm staying silent on the topic, at the request of Coolmac. So all I'll say about that is this: it's fuckin' tragic that so many people were killed. I really mean that. Maybe it'll teach them not to test nukes under the sea. What's that? Oh, I'm a crackpot conspiracy theorist, am I? Why do you think that earthquake actually happened? I don't believe that it was an act of any god.

And while we're on the topic of calamities, I have to ask, firstly, why is it that a bunch of people from the same malignant species, (homo sapien), get wiped out by a 'natural' disaster and the whole world weeps as one; but when thousands of different species across the globe are being wiped out on a daily basis, no-one gives a shit, much less a billion dollars to get things back on track?

I relate it back to the dominant monotheistic view that only humans really count because they supposedly have souls, and other life forms do not.

This leads me to my second question. What the hell good is having a soul, if it only means that you become a greedy, ambitious, self-serving fucker who destroys the natural world without a moment's thought, (except, of course, for the profit margin)?

People are truly hypocrites by nature. I mean, okay, the Tsunami in SE Asia was bad. And the only reason why there was such a fuss was because there were so many god damned European tourists there. That is all the media have concentrated on – the few thousand guys from the Netherlands etc. who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong (right?) time. How about the many thousand locals who will be utterly screwed after their experiences in those refugee camps? Women and children having been raped because they were under the 'protection' of troops, babies dying of dysentry and other diseases because there is no clean water. Thousands of homeless, who will probably never see a cent of that famous foreign money. If I had to search for my loved ones in a mass grave, full of decomposing corpses, I would never be able to speak to anyone ever again. But, those poor tourists are safely evacuated to their warm, plumbed, under-floor-heated suburbs. That's okay, then.

What annoys me, with all this stuff is that the moment people start to die in big numbers, (and provided that either the US or Europe has something to do with that place), they throw money at them. Oh, and don't forget those weapons and/ or military support. We've seen it for ages with Israel / Palestine: oh awfully sorry you're all killing each other off. Here, have some weapons, and some cash, and some troops. That's guaranteed to stop people dying. After all, we're all for peace, yes! It's happening and has happened in the past in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, pretty much everywhere.

I'm developing a serious case of misanthropy, caused by listening to the crap they spout on the radio and TV, aggravated by the so-called 'festive season', and a substantial lack of any means to change what is happening, or alternatively, to hire a few snipers to take out those assholes that insist on fucking it up for everyone else. George Dubya, for one.

You know, early last week, the media was commenting on the fact that dear ol' Georgie didn't make a public speech immediately following the Tsunami. I've heard the suggestion that he was advised not to, because he might proclaim that his god did it to punish all the heathens in Asia.

I personally think it was because he was waiting to see if he could find a way to use it to his own ends, and couldn't. Maybe it would have been to the benefit of the world if he had just opened his trap and started talking anyway. I mean, accusing Bin Ladin or Hussein of causing the Tsunami would be pretty good grounds for an impeachment, wouldn't it?

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