Humans have officially lost their way

Sometimes I wonder why God — or Buddha, or Allah, or whom/whatever you may or may not believe in — doesn't just finish this little experiment we call human-kind.

Obviously, things aren't going so well. In the past 200 years we've managed to put our planet on the brink of disaster by treating the earth, water and air like our personal dumping ground. We are squeezing out other animals, because we've destroyed or overrun their natural habitats. We go to war to get our hands on oil. We kill innocent people to try to convince the world our way of life is the best.

Today's news out of Long Island, New York, just solidifies the fact we're doomed as a species.

Today is 'Black Friday', the day after the U.S. Thanksgiving when retailers put on irresistible deals for the American consumer.

It also became Black Friday for one Wal-Mart employee, who was trampled to death as shoppers rushed into the store, shortly after it opened this morning. All to save $15 on an Elmo Live likely.

Stop and think about that for a second.

A man ... was killed ... by a stampede of shoppers who had lined up at 5 a.m. to get into freakin' Wal-mart... to save a few bucks on a toy.

Disgusting.

Happy Thanksgiving America. I hope you enjoyed your shopping extravaganza today.

Now push the button God, I think we deserve it.

Comments

[Wally Keeler]

You used the trampled shopper (the micro) as a platform to rant(the macro) that "...the past 200 years we've managed to put our planet on the brink of disaster by treating the earth, water and air like our personal dumping ground. We are squeezing out other animals, because we've destroyed or overrun their natural habitats. We go to war to get our hands on oil. We kill innocent people to try to convince the world our way of life is the best. Today's news out of Long Island, New York, just solidifies the fact we're doomed as a species."

You sound like a back-tracking politician when you assert that you were "merely saying".

You initiated the litany of the doomgloomboom over the past 200 years. Your historical perceptive radar is totally depleted. The past 200 years has been the most beneficial period for humanity than all previous epochs combined, ever since we emerged from the ooze.

Newspapers are in the business of presenting the dark side of everything, and this has warped your perception of historical reality. This shouldn't matter in your individual case, however, you are a paid professional putting your warped myopia into the public domain, thereby warping the perception of others.

I suggest you pull over, clean the filthy windshield of your passenger vehicle before proceeding into an ever increasing properous healthy future.

[Dwight]

Well Wally, I think you're missing the point.

If you think I would actually like to see the world blown to pieces, than I suggest you check your sarcasm detector, as the batteries may be on their last legs.

I was merely saying that materialism has created such lust for "a good deal" that it cost a man his life to a stampeding herd of shoppers. This has nothing to do with getting three square meals a day.

[Wally Keeler]

Humans have enriched this planet with their unprecedented creativity. At the turn of the 20th century, only about 5% of human kind enjoyed 3 square meals a day. 100 years later, almost 95% of humankind can enjoy 3 square meals. With speedbumps and potholes along the way, this trend will continue.

It will continue because the literacy level of humans has increased from a 5% elite in 1900 to almost 90% today.

More humans are better feed than at any other time in history, and more intelligent than any other time in history, and life overall will improve as we move forward.

If you don't believe this, then do what my father did -- get down on your knees, wrap your mouth around an automobile exhaust pipe and inhale deeply.

What kind of father would inform his son, "Now push the button God, I think we deserve it."

What is the point of you having children, Dwight?

[GS]

Right on!