Callin' 'Em All Out EP56 : Monologue
There's many important lessons one can learn from some time in nature. Understanding the functions of rivers and streams, the mountains they form, and the caves beneath. You get to take in knowledge passed down from the cosmos that binds our whole world together, that shapes the environment we live in.
Stepping out into the wild is eye opening because most of us don't experience it that often. Even if we do its in short, calculated bursts, equipped with as much technology we can take in order to ensure survival. No matter how much you enjoy the experience of being outdoors we all understand that it will kill us if we do not guard against it. No one man can create that technology out of sheer instinct to survive the elements so we spend the rest of our lives huddled around each other, and that's where most of our dangers exist now.
Being in a group has its advantages. You can move things, invent things, and even develop civilization all over again. Time after time throughout the generations groups have congregated and settled nature in order to live and bring new life to the earth. We are drawn to one another through instincts for survival. That desperation we all feel when we feel alone out in the cold has us take shelter in places we don't necessarily choose in life sometimes, and that's when another element of nature emerges, the predator drive.
There are many drives that humans possess. The drive of hunger will force us to kill or destroy something to survive. What's almost unique amongst us humans, is that we may follow the same drive as our animal co-inhabitants of this earth, but I believe we feel completely different than they do about killing.
Inflicting harm on other things is an essential part of the equation when deciding upon one's ethics. How much harm should I inflict upon something for survival?
Its not necessary to torture animals before you eat them. In fact, its bad for the meat. Cortisol builds up and so does lactic acid and sooner or later you went from marbled deliciousness to Civil War era shoe leather with the luxury of salt, pepper, and a little bit of butter.
Now if happy cows make better meat doesn't that show us, from nature itself, that our purpose here on earth is to treat other things with as much respect as we can?
Doesn't it show us that the goodness that we perpetuate is reciprocated through things that are produced to help us survive?
Wouldn't you think by now that we would know not to harm animals because it hurts us humans? You would also think that the same metrics, if not even more strict would apply to us people. Well, as you may already know, not everyone got that memo.
There are some humans out there that will not abide by nature's law to look out for one another. In fact, some of those people would torture and eat you just like they did with the animals they found growing up. Some people are sick. Look up Dick Cheney for reference.
So what are the rules with dealing with people that may cause you harm or even death?
At first we separate them from the rest of the group right?
As humans we alert one another when a wolf or bear is approaching our camp. We arm ourselves and we often elect people to deal with that threat. The consequences of sending those that fail could mean being eaten alive. Probably not the same with people, but if you took the time to look up Dick Cheney, you know that could apply here too.
People victimize one another for all sorts of reasons. Greed, lust, power, all sorts of nasty things left over from those drives but may have been warped somehow like an old record left in the sun. Now the tune is slightly off with some people and they can't be included in the party mix playlist of life anymore.
That's where the concept of Justice steps in right?
I thought so for most of my life, but it's not that simple as the cops come and remove the bad guys and they're never allowed to get away with it again. The more I learn about history, especially my country's history, I'm seeing that many crimes, atrocities, even genocides were left unpunished. That the people who have caused the greatest amount of harm were allowed to walk away scott free or were even awarded for doing so.
The world we live in is unjust. We elect corrupted people to the positions whom decide what is just and fair and they fail us constantly. You can say its human nature but one thing that can turn these injustices into something more meaningful is our human drive to communicate.
Instead of warning of the four legged predators, some of us have the knack for warning others about the predators with just 2 legs. We expose the people who would harm us and others. Those who would prey upon the innocent, especially the vulnerable, and the weak.
In nature, animals will put the most vulnerable in the center and the strongest on the outside of the circle to fend off attackers. For some of us its time to take that position on the outer circle and signal to whatever's coming for us that we are strong and we're not backing down.
If you were blessed with the ability, rather through nature or experience, to call out the deceitful, lying, thieving, egg sucking scums of this earth...step up to the circle and let's put these creeps on blast. Our ability to talk shit is a gift and its no coincidence that when its getting dark and cold outside that it becomes the giving season.
We as humans, choose to surround ourselves with the people who will most likely help us to survive or ones we care for. To be able to tell the difference between them and those who would harm us is a gift. So give the gift of telling those who would harm you, your family, or your friends to deal with the isolation, exposure, and privation of the world outside, outside of the rest of us.