reflections on recent mental wandering

Human beings have royally fucked up life on this planet.
we can barely treat each other well, let alone every other living thing we have to share our environment with. Earth would get along perfectly well without us, and in fact, maybe it should. every major religion, and every minor one that i know of, has a flood story: humans get too numerous and too stupid for our own good, not to mention the good of everything else, and something comes along to wipe us out. except now we've gotten to the point where we even fuck up dying off: a vaccine for the swine flu? maybe that was the next thing that was supposed to come along and kill off a large number of us, but we're just too stubborn to admit that maybe we don't know best.

that said, i still believe that the world is a beautiful place, and human beings can be such a beautiful part of it. there is so much good that has come out of human creation, and i think it's so cool that humans can think and feel and do all the things we do. being born human is an incredible opportunity. but so many people have gotten careless, and they waste it, and that in turn wastes everything else. if we could only remember how to live with our world instead of in it....