We are Living in Dangerous Times

During one of my usual afternoon internet perusing sessions, done despite gorgeous carbon emitted, climate warmed fall weather that I have been programmed to avoid and stay inside (skin cancer's a bitch huh? best to avoid any sort of living) I freaked out. I was listening to "Nocturne" by Medeski, Martin and Wood and reading this article detailing the sad demise of Delhi's deputy mayor, Surinder Singh Bajwa, at the hand of a marauding band of monkeys. I freaked out because I realized that the world is fucked, we are fucking ending ourselves at the hand of ourselves.

There are wildfires raging beyond belief in southern California. It seems like every year now there is another bigger and more fucked natural disaster. Tsunami, Hurricane, Fire, I am sure an Earthquake will hit soon, I mean they already do, look at Peru, no one even cares or remembers, that was mere months ago. Also, I had a revelation as I watch my parents begin to develop their normal share of middle age health problems that our grandparents generation will live longer than us because despite probably smoking and drinking more and exercising less, their lives were less chemical. They spent more time outside or working with natural products inside. Now we live in cities, in the shadow of factories, refineries, waste plants without second thought, we sit at computers all day, mere feet from all the crap used to make the microchips and screens, we hold cell phones to our temples, right next to our brains for hours a day, this has to affect us, just ask Miss South Carolina, we are fucked. I predict the average lifespan will see its first decrease with our generation and that sucks cuz I plan to live to 100 (okay fine, I got 91, but whatever) and I want some homies to kick it with and now Mr. Bajwa won't be one of them, damn Macaques.