What I care about in the deepest of senses.
Then endgame for me is this.
I am 46. I am married, and I am sitting in my kitchen around 6pm. My kids have come home from school, and me and my wife of some years, are there, with a bottle of wine, the roast or any form of dinner for that matter, is in the oven. One of my friends and his wife and kids are over for the night, (let’s call it a Saturday, so they are staying the guest room) and we are getting ready for supper, us adults gathered round the island talking about nothing, or talking about everything, it doesn’t matter save the locale.
This is what I want. For the longest I have figured, this is what I want, and to do so I have always figured film or books to do this for me. I’d gladly suffer the arrows of outrageous misfortune to do so, and I don’t think I am alone in such a scene.
Along the way, I’d hope to help the aspects of life that I care about.
And while life suffers on the human form in some of the worst ways (US in Iraq, Darfur, the general shittiness of impoverished childhood in third world countries) it’s hard to fathom I would care about these.
While there is an argument that saving the whales is the ultimate act of commercial benevolence, it’s hard to decry the point once you have gotten to that level of financial freedom.
Earth is beyond special. Even if it’s one of a many thousand or just one of 10 in the galaxy that supports life to the point where we are now, it’s special because it’s our planet.
So if I were rich, I’d probably pay money to those hurt by natural acts like Katrina or the 2004 Tsunami, but that’s only trying to help other human beings. Yeah, it’s needed, but at the same time, it’s just giving money to people who are living here on Earth, and last I checked, we aren’t the only ones here. Come to that notion, we aren’t the only thing that makes Earth so special.
If I were a rich and generous soul, I’d leave the masses of people up to fate, only helping when they needed it (on this note, Darfur needs attention and military force, not just money), but to the vitality of Earth itself.
Mind you, before you think I am all Greenpeace and so on, I am still not sold on Global Warming. Until I have proof that can be definitively connected, I am not going to believe it’s not more that the planet adjusting with time. Earth has never been stable, even if we do curb greenhouse gases and global warming is true, it doesn’t mean that Earth is acting any different… this is a planet that is not stable enough for long term life, humans just were smart enough to adapt themselves.
Though I do care about preservation. Not about the lemur in Ghana that is near extinction due to fallibility to crop manifestation.
I care about whales.
Really, that’s all I care about.
Whales are the coolest thing outside of humans that evolution has ever made. Dolphins are up there, as are sharks, but to think of a great beast, Melville had it right. There is nothing more impressive than a giant creature that roams and dominates a world on our planet that we have no true conception of. While it’s one thing to look for life on other planets terrestrial, we still have a whole world of creatures oceanic, and seeing that they can live in the 70% of the Earth that we cannot, the great creatures deserve our care. For they are what we are not… they are what make Earth so special. If you don’t buy into this, I ask, how much would you pay to see a Killer Whale fight a T Rex.
I thought so.
So I go to blue whales.
Blue Whales are, in my opinion, the coolest thing in the world. While we have Lake Baikal, Bryce Canyon, African Elephants, AIDS (I’m not trying to be curt here, but there is an organism that is designed only to kill the top form of life. Yeah it sucks, but on a scientific level, it’s a unique device of the Earth’s self correction. It’s horrible for us, it’s probably good for the planet), and the Boundary Waters. We have so much in life that we can experience, but yet, the best things that the Earth has ever given us are dying, maybe in part due to our involvement.
The greatest creature on Earth by measure of size, it’s a relative pacifist, living on only the plantation of the sea.
And yet our lives on the sea to find food and life providing necessities may lead to the end of the Blue Whale.
200 tons (400,000 pounds, that’s close to half a million, mind you) and they still are the hunted.
This is the great creature of mystery and awe on Earth.
And that’s my attraction.
I just hope they survive me and my generation.
This is a gift we have been given while we exist. That’s why I care about blue (and all) whales.
I am 46. I am married, and I am sitting in my kitchen around 6pm. My kids have come home from school, and me and my wife of some years, are there, with a bottle of wine, the roast or any form of dinner for that matter, is in the oven. One of my friends and his wife and kids are over for the night, (let’s call it a Saturday, so they are staying the guest room) and we are getting ready for supper, us adults gathered round the island talking about nothing, or talking about everything, it doesn’t matter save the locale.
This is what I want. For the longest I have figured, this is what I want, and to do so I have always figured film or books to do this for me. I’d gladly suffer the arrows of outrageous misfortune to do so, and I don’t think I am alone in such a scene.
Along the way, I’d hope to help the aspects of life that I care about.
And while life suffers on the human form in some of the worst ways (US in Iraq, Darfur, the general shittiness of impoverished childhood in third world countries) it’s hard to fathom I would care about these.
While there is an argument that saving the whales is the ultimate act of commercial benevolence, it’s hard to decry the point once you have gotten to that level of financial freedom.
Earth is beyond special. Even if it’s one of a many thousand or just one of 10 in the galaxy that supports life to the point where we are now, it’s special because it’s our planet.
So if I were rich, I’d probably pay money to those hurt by natural acts like Katrina or the 2004 Tsunami, but that’s only trying to help other human beings. Yeah, it’s needed, but at the same time, it’s just giving money to people who are living here on Earth, and last I checked, we aren’t the only ones here. Come to that notion, we aren’t the only thing that makes Earth so special.
If I were a rich and generous soul, I’d leave the masses of people up to fate, only helping when they needed it (on this note, Darfur needs attention and military force, not just money), but to the vitality of Earth itself.
Mind you, before you think I am all Greenpeace and so on, I am still not sold on Global Warming. Until I have proof that can be definitively connected, I am not going to believe it’s not more that the planet adjusting with time. Earth has never been stable, even if we do curb greenhouse gases and global warming is true, it doesn’t mean that Earth is acting any different… this is a planet that is not stable enough for long term life, humans just were smart enough to adapt themselves.
Though I do care about preservation. Not about the lemur in Ghana that is near extinction due to fallibility to crop manifestation.
I care about whales.
Really, that’s all I care about.
Whales are the coolest thing outside of humans that evolution has ever made. Dolphins are up there, as are sharks, but to think of a great beast, Melville had it right. There is nothing more impressive than a giant creature that roams and dominates a world on our planet that we have no true conception of. While it’s one thing to look for life on other planets terrestrial, we still have a whole world of creatures oceanic, and seeing that they can live in the 70% of the Earth that we cannot, the great creatures deserve our care. For they are what we are not… they are what make Earth so special. If you don’t buy into this, I ask, how much would you pay to see a Killer Whale fight a T Rex.
I thought so.
So I go to blue whales.
Blue Whales are, in my opinion, the coolest thing in the world. While we have Lake Baikal, Bryce Canyon, African Elephants, AIDS (I’m not trying to be curt here, but there is an organism that is designed only to kill the top form of life. Yeah it sucks, but on a scientific level, it’s a unique device of the Earth’s self correction. It’s horrible for us, it’s probably good for the planet), and the Boundary Waters. We have so much in life that we can experience, but yet, the best things that the Earth has ever given us are dying, maybe in part due to our involvement.
The greatest creature on Earth by measure of size, it’s a relative pacifist, living on only the plantation of the sea.
And yet our lives on the sea to find food and life providing necessities may lead to the end of the Blue Whale.
200 tons (400,000 pounds, that’s close to half a million, mind you) and they still are the hunted.
This is the great creature of mystery and awe on Earth.
And that’s my attraction.
I just hope they survive me and my generation.
This is a gift we have been given while we exist. That’s why I care about blue (and all) whales.
posted by Indiana at
2:33 AM
2 Comments:
wow. that was a whale turd of a post.
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Anonymous, at February 05, 2007 1:35 PM
And how.
This is what happens when I o'd on Animal Planet, The Science Channel and Jim Beam.
Seriously, I woke up and thought, what the hell did I write about last night.
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Indiana, at February 05, 2007 10:42 PM
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