Sorry Satchmo
Watching an old video of Cranberries’ Zombie made me sad at
the reality of the immense suffering of us all and in our human perception also
the ‘worse’ suffering of ‘innocent’ children too often by other not so innocent
children as well.
I was reminded of how much I hate the word resilience and
the need for it even having it in some primary schools guidelines and motto.
Life itself needs to be ‘resilient’ I know but I am a
dreamer, a Herbert George dreamer of Elois without Morlocks of ‘good’ without ‘evil’.
We are apes after all.
Our only biggest problem is hubris being the dominant species we think
it means we have achieved some special status.
The dinosaurs were a dominant species at one time too and look what
happened to them.
We are no better.
A two year old can enjoy the suffering of another two year
old and it will always be like this. There will always be mindless senseless
wars crimes and violence.
One would think life is fragile enough without this added
killing right?
Strangely enough one of the biggest killers is a silent one
but still an affront to the ‘special gift’, the privilege, the random lottery
of Life: Suicide.
Anyway back to my muttons here, (artistic freedom free
translation), our biggest fault is hubris to think that man is the cat’s meow
of ‘creation’, the ultimate good act of an all knowing all powerful all good
super fairy.
Man is the dominant species for NOW and that’s it and in
TIME it means nothing.
We’re the big lizards of this temporary minute in the space
time continuum.
But we ARE lizards.
Always will be.
Our medulla oblongata will always be much larger than our
tiny pineal gland (the size of a grain of rice) the seat of our dreams of
grandeur and all of our delusions.
But all this won’t matter in time again as the circle of
life will all bring us back to this tiny unimaginable nothingness of the
beginning and the end of the universe, either a tiny dot containing all ‘creation’
(so impossible to fathom)
or better a huge big black hole of nothingness,
no
consciousness,
no feelings,
no knowledge,
no nothing
and certainly no big ape
temporarily called homo sapiens sapiens.
