Malarkey Purge

A flame eats, breathes, and reproduces then it dies.  In consideration of all that is, was, and will be as a whole, our lives are the same as the flame’s.  We don’t have to constantly consume to reproduce, and we don’t die as quickly as we are born.  We have a unique ability to exploit our little habitat very effectively.  This is through a form of perception that has developed over a very long time span.  You and I did not earn this perspective, we were blessed and cursed with it at the time our lives began.  Existence is the easiest and most rewarding thing any human, at this time, has accomplished.  We are more comfortable, capable, and deluded than anything I am aware of.  We forget we are life, not superior forms of life, but just life.  If we were superior forms of life we wouldn’t live and die like the flame to the perspective of the Grand Schema.  If we were concerned with ensuring the human race survives as long as possible, maybe we could become an important part of life.  People now only concern themselves with the comforts their environment supplies.  We don’t realize now more than ever we can choose to fight for survival as a life form, as a race.  Look at what our obsession with these petty desires and comforts has done to our World in the last century.  We have enslaved entire countries, destroyed cultures, doomed countless habitats, released atomic pollution, spread and raised countless new diseases, and actually put a hole in our sky.  We have destroyed the vast majority of the richest most irreplaceable life-sustaining component of our Global Environment: the rain forests.  How is it more important for us to live lives with television and ready in a minute ninety-nine cent cheeseburgers, than it is for the human race to live on and ensure the life of the planet which sustains us.  Scientists know that the global environment has been greatly damaged many times, and from that damage came chaotic times of constant vicious fighting for survival by most forms of life; especially the dominant animals.  We have already hurt so much so quickly.  We keep reproducing and consuming with no regard for the consequences.  We care only for our own lives and the lives of the group that sustains us, because our destructive culture has convinced us that we all can’t agree on a universal desire.  We are life, the a priori meaning of life is: life.  Life has given us these precious gifts of awareness, emotion, power, and expression.  These things could develop and our potential could be endless.  The first step is to live for life, to know that we want our form of life to go on and develop in conjunction with our life-sustaining planet.  I know, even if no one admits it, that we all want the human race to live on forever, we all want this planet to grow forever.  We are life; we want to live.  Our maximum potential to live forever is our current potential.  With this perception constantly manifesting in everything I think: I see others who are not convinced or even aware of these ideas, and to me they are lying down and dieing.  I can’t care about forms of destruction that horrify most people, because I see us slowly destroying something that is more important to us than anything.  I can’t delude myself and try to be happy with our short walk on the Green Mile.  So what if you or I die, and who cares if you produce another generation of offspring.  Eventually all your descendants will die.  Some of them might be caught in the vicious fight for the survival of life on this planet.  I can’t lay down and die, because I am life.  The meaning of life is: life, not comfort, happiness, specific people, ninety-nine cent cheeseburgers, and it sure as hell isn’t death.  Life forms don’t want to die, I am part of a greater life form, and I don’t want it to die.  I refuse to live to die, and I refuse to lay down and die, because I am a life form, that which is a part of life.  I want to be life; I want to devote this existence to that which sustains it.