Nothing Has Meaning

When the rain stops soil will suffer.
When the rain stops rivers will dry.
When the rain stops groundwater will deplete.
When the rain stops springs will dry up.
When the rain stops plants will die.
When the rain stops dams will be useless.
When the rain stops life ends.

Sometimes the idea of hitting a target seems appropriate to those not taking aim.

By this one can think of the possibility that one will not hit a target without aiming for it, though literally a false statement, practically true. In terms of likelihoods, hitting the target is highly unlikely.

Substitute target for goal and one can begin to understand a simple but sometimes overlooked paradigm of movement, that movement forward should be dedicated to reaching a certain point.

All the its not the destination its the journey slogans aside it is easier to get somewhere specific when you know where you are going.

Though I highly recommend drifting, this earth, a place where we evolved from star dust or appeared spontaneously from the mind of an all powerful being with faked evidence to test our faith, is soon to become inhospitable to us, and most living things we value or are accustomed to being around and eating.

Soon is relative. But soon enough for humanity.

If humans decided to maintain this earth in a state that would facilitate our continued lives, with a quality of life as we desire, this would be a goal, and the odds of reaching this goal would no longer be random but focused. Ain’t gonna happen. Still.

Where are you going?

Me? Nowhere fast with nothing to say, but its ok. It’s ok.

If you can’t see the forest for the trees, then decision making becomes all but pointless.

For example, hydro-electric power generating plants.

Once, on a small stream near my home there was a proposal to build a micro hydro facility on the stream just downstream. I was opposed, and remain opposed though the proposal is long dead.

Upon recently examining my motives, I realized that at the time I simply didn’t want to see the damage to the stream, and the permanent aesthetic damage, for the construction and maintenance of the facility.

What I didn’t consider was the holistic view, one that encounters energy costs, local and external, energy types, dependencies on non-renewable energy and so on.

Hydro power is ugly, very ugly in the short term and long term. Hydro power is very renewable, very clean and very reliable, in the long term. Here in North Fork CA in fact we derive 80 percent of our power from hydro.

Luckily, the decision I made was correct even when filtered by reality, holistic reality.

Gives one leave, though, to shut up and listen, consider, weigh, move back, way back and look again, then decide.

And ya better have a goal in there somewhere or you are moving towards oblivion.

A healthy ecosystem is a subjective topic as is everything because we now know that Nothing Has Meaning without point of view.

Balance is one concept touted in any discussion of ecosystems.

Assuming that the earth is an ecosystem we can also assume that the degree to which the earth can sustain any given state would be an indicator of balance. The earth is out of balance due to human beings.

Then again, balance is subjective so who is to say what is in balance? See my article on the earth’s attitude.

Still, we have to make assumptions here so let us define balance as an earth that will sustain life as we humans desire, generally, a life that is also good for other living things.

The earth is out of balance.

The solution to this problem?

Vote no on the human race.

Sunday 8/27/06

Category: Global Health

I’ve always thought of this as the plight of being a human, or joy, or whatever grabs your fancy.

Then I realized that this is not the truth of it.

The human condition is a disease that the earth has.

We humans are like a virus (The Matrix) that the earth has caught and there ain’t no getting over it, or is there.

Quite possibly, the earth will outlast humans, actually it will, though the face of the earth will be different than it was before the advent of intelligence of humans and hence, the vanity of humanity. But then the earth has always been a dynamic evolving flowing fluid rock.

Get well soon.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Here’s a thought. What if everyone on earth, of the human persuasion, were to acknowledge and know that the earth inherently has not the least bit of attachment to the human race.

Simply put, we are killing an ecosystem that will support us, and other living things, possibly to be known as collateral damage.

One time I told an acquaintance that whether or not the earth was hospitable to humans had no intrinsic value or necessary desirability. I was told that anyone who felt that way was value challenged. I obviously thought better and knew that values are, again, exactly based on desires, perspectives, contexts and intelligence.

Intrinsic, inherent meaning or value simply doesn’t exist. Step back and look at reality in the cold hard light of logic and you find the IS. What IS. No meaning, no spin, no win, no sway, no way, no play, no fray.

You know, so I thought, why the hell is this idea of perspective and existence free of us so provocative? Why the hell are people so caught up they can’t see themselves and their place in the ecosystem? Why aren’t we all aware of the tenuous, random and arbitrary values we assign to our cultures?

Amazingly enough I caught an episode of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart where he laid out in comedic fashion that the earth will go on. Reminds me of the Matrix when Mr. Smith refers to the human race as a virus. Reminds me of George Harrison’s line in Within and Without You, just that, life goes on within you and without you.

Wise up and agree on a set of common goals and we can save our world. The earth doesn’t care.