18.01.2007 - 3:34 p.m.

it's official

unless you've been hiding under a rock ( i have on occasion, it's worth trying sometime ) you'll no doubt be aware that lately there's a few column inches being devoted to the monstrous, money crapping behemoth that is big brudda. It would be pointless of me to go over what every paper has already regurgitated every day since the weekend, but since i've been banging on about this for years anyway, here's a synopsis of stuff i've already bored you to death with ( for a fuller account i suggest you read ( or re-read ) the entries in my 'older' folder )

- humans have a tendency towards ignorance
- the population is realising this by becoming stupider year by year ( or possibly week by week )
- the general media is not helping
- idiots should be marginalised, placing them on television tends to make them think they�re right
- increasing proportion of populace + less thought = knee-jerk reactions + hysteria
- thanks to fluid dynamics i can prove it :

a denser medium will sink while a lighter medium will rise above it

i think the metaphor speaks for itself

i often like to think of myself as creamy, or possibly a light distillate ( i don't weigh much ) and as the common denominator gets cruder i rise faster, bring on the tabloids, break open the bottles of binge, it's party time and fuck the consequences, they won't happen until after we're dead anyway

therefore

it's not our problem.

I'm not worried, like many treehugging ecotossers are, about our destruction of the planet and the stripping of natural resources and the poisons and pollution and species death and oooo, aren't we awful.

because in the end, and i mean much further than the common denominator can comprehend, the whole mighty 'civilisation' created by the humans will reduce down to an interesting layer of sedimentary rock about three feet thick, probably glowing and with strange stuff leaching out of it, but that's about it, three feet.

Human sponsored species death is nothing compared with other extinctions that have occurred in history, and creatures like giant pandas, although both cute and emotive, have been heading towards extinction long before we got involved. There's practically nothing we can do ( including global nuclear exchanges ) that can't be rectified given enough time by mother earth, continents can be swallowed up and reborn through tectonics and in the furnace of the earth everything is reduced to elements. All it will take is one significant extinction event and we're history and before you know it rats are higher up the food chain than us ( and probably laughing )

an alternative title might be:

How i learned to stop worrying and start laughing at other people

kick back, slip on the comfy slippers and enjoy the ride, there's absolutely no way we can change the direction we're heading and to think otherwise is naive and sentimental, only an Outside-Context-Problem will change the direction and the new direction will probably be a short-cut to hell from the long road to hell we're on now.

On the plus side, people who take themselves too seriously get really wound up when other people are laughing at them, and this tends to set off other tics, neuroses and weirdness that may have been dormant until that point, this then makes the objects of laughter even funnier. If anyone ( in the UK ) can remember the series 'GBH' from many years ago, the character played by Robert Lindsay became funnier as his world came apart and his eccentricities rose to the surface.

Now that�s good comedy