We Can’t Be Nice About Any Of This Anymore

When our self-serving idiocy begins to work against the universal morality of other species and we refuse to put an end to it ourselves, those species do their best to fight back.

When we act against the universal morality of great numbers of species, we act against the universal morality of all life, and all life will work together to ensure we can’t keep doing that.

This is how all of this crap keeps going on, every bit of it. Including coronavirus, even including an alarming percentage of seismic activity in the last fifty years, to say nothing of the natural disasters that are made worse by our destruction of the environment, and it just keeps going and it all starts with individuals thinking clearly and ethically. Individuals who make a deliberate choice to refuse to at least make the genuine effort to *try* to do either one of those things are making a deliberate choice to die.

We no longer have the option of first considering the hurt feelings of the privileged.  Especially when it’s mostly adults acting like little kids, being afraid to remove a band-aid and see the healing where a wound used to be.  None of this is really going to “hurt” anybody, beyond the blow to their ego in finding out they’ve got to actually start living up to their own self-image, they’re not allowed to keep faking it anymore.

The coddling of these egos has to stop, and it has to stop now.  It’s killing us, in very large numbers, and those numbers are going to get larger still before they start shrinking.  Aside from basic human selfishness in the immediate sense, what mostly keeps this going is that arguing over these things is a multibillion dollar industry, and in spite of the generalized damage is inflicts on society as a whole, it props up the power and lifestyles of the ownership class.

But if we don’t change what we’re doing, NOW, they’re not going to start shrinking until so many people have died that the human population is no longer a threat to the rest of the world or itself.

We can no longer, as a matter of that universal human morality I keep talking about, continue to be polite to the stupid.  Yes, there are going to be people who genuinely don’t get it, but that’s what education is for.  That’s ignorance and it can be fixed.  I’m talking about stupidity, which is willful ignorance or pretense to it.  There are many more people who get it just fine and pretend not to – they play stupid – like the people who get a fake “emotional support animal” just because they notice people with real ones and are pissed off that someone is getting something “special” and they’re not.

The protection of these people’s feelings has to end, or it’s going to end us.  It sounds cruel, but it isn’t.  What’s cruel is the price everyone has to pay to keep propping all this BS up.

Sorry.