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Termyn8or -> Fledgling birds (7/21/2008 5:50:31 PM)
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As most probably know, I am off Mondays. So I decide to sit out on the porch today. Talked with the olman about alot of things, from alternative fuels (he knows things, he was a high end job shop machinist, made the first machine that produced floppy disks in fact)
We talked about all kinds of things, history of the world, like how the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family became the Windsors and who brought in the bleeder gene. All the way from that to politics and my idea for the 400HP 40MPG car. Like I said he knows shit, he has built a few racing engines, including V8s that could do nine thousand RPM. Give that a try sometime. We can tell you why it is so difficult yet so easy for a crotchrocket engine.
But the birds. There were a hell of alot of them. I mean ALOT. Little things, fledglings no doubt. Hunting and pecking for food. I got to thinking, and the million thoughts in my head got replaced by a different million thoughts.
If I were a bird I could fly, but I would not have the mental capacity to really appreciate it. I would take it for granted, and a bird that can't fly dies usually.
I mean in the street and the front yard there may have been like forty of them there at the same time. Looking for food of course, that is about all they do. I was thinking about how simple life could be. Living on bugs instead of buying on time.
Yes I bought on time, just because it is paid off doesn't mean I didn't do it. It doesn't mean that I did not enslave myself for a time. A bird just flies away. It doesn't care about shit, just the next edible thing it can find. So simple.
Thinking about my job which I might have to quit, don't worry, I'll get another, but birds have no such problems. It never enters their mind, whether they have one or not.
I was at peace. I also watched the cat from across the street try a little hunting. Came back with nothing. Poor thing, but what if he had caught one ? What about the bird he kills ? I realize that this is nature, and we live and die.
As humans we think we are somehow above the laws of nature. We think it can't or at least shouldn't happen to us. What gives us that right ? Top of the food chain ? Go into the bowels of Africa and face up to a huge tiger or lion and think again.
Go swimming with sharks and eat one. Really, what is it that gives us domain over this planet ? We are hairless apes, and alot of people really aren't much more. Absorbed into technology that they have no nope or desire to understand even though it controls their lives.
Birds do not have these issues.
So which species is better off ? We have to worry about specie (money) and all kind of shit, and where has it gotten us ? We are sick and dying, birds just fly around looking for bugs to eat. And if you are healthy right now, don't think this does not apply to you. I know and I have proof that aging at the rate we do is caused by deficiencies in our food. But then birds do not have that problem either.
So in the whole of human development, what have we really gained ? Incontinent, diabetic, depressed people with kids on SSRIs.
What have we gained ? Put a Man on the moon, for what reason ? Just to prove up to the USSR ? That's what it was all about. There was no other reason to do it, and showing our ass is what put the probe on Mars. For what ? It will be a hundred years before we make a dime off of this technology.
Meanwhile back on the planet we are losing the ability to feed ourselves, and everybody is out to screw everybody (present company excluded). I simply don't see the advantage.
Be a bird. Live a few years and never have to fill out a tax form, get car insurance, worry about your kid coming home pregnant, or your Wife leaving you. Never have to deal with a TV technician, auto mechanic or air conditioning repairman. No replacement windows on the house, no cement Man to pour a new driveway, nothing of the sort. No wiring problems or roof leaks. No flat tires. No assholes on the highway.
Are we really better off ?
T
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