after struggeling for so and so many years against the stupid idiots who treat this planet and its resources as if it was something you can just replace any time (ah, the mars missions! you actually think motherfuckers! great. thank you too), after environmentalism experiencing a decrease in interest in the general populace and gaining nothing but a tired, cynical smile by most of the hip people around me I came to following conclusion:
Christel was right.
She told me, when I was 7 or 9 or whatever, wanting to found a Greenpeace Youthgroup in order to save the Whales and the World (which I eventually did, when I was 12, I mean the founding of the Youthgroup, not the saving, unfortunately)
'Jayjay, You can't save anything unless you clean up yourself first. That's why in this monestry (I forgot where) the monks are only allowed to help other people when they have gone through a school themselves, to get their act together, that is, tackle the internal environmental destruction so to say'
Well, who could blame me, I didn't get this at this young an age, but to my credit I have to add, that even then I sensed that she was probably right, which, of course, didn't stop me from doing what I thought I had to do.
But now, reading a lot about religion lately, (I can only strongly strongly recommend any book by Joseph Ratzinger, who is the pope now.... especially 'Salt of the Earth' and 'On God and the World'. It is extremely interesting and opens up views on things you've brushed off all your life, following the general opinions that are available among young people who like to critize just about everything they don't understand really. sorry, but that's how I feel about it now.) I realized more and more and once again:
THe problem of environmentalism is, that the internal pollution of human beings in our society is totally neglected. The take on outer pollution can only be successful when it attempts in the same time to tackle the problem of internal pollution.
I've always thought, that the same mindset that makes you justify smoking (= polluting and eventually destroying your 'inner' lung-rainforest) is the one, that allows for the schizophrenia of destroying rain forests on this planet. I've had a discussion about this with a friend of mine and I remember how he defeated my point but somehow his argument didn't stick with me and I still think that.
(proof of how stubborn we are when it comes to our own little privately acquired opinions! yeah yippie! I am so smart!)
You are welcome to defeat my point again, until then I will keep sticking to it, to give myself the benefit of a doubt
Julia Butterfly Hill, by the way, seems to be very aware of this problem, when I heard her talk here at a Community College in LA she mentioned that there is a need of regaining a spiritual connection to the earth, to the living, and she righteously mentions the native tribes of America to be a very very precious resource for us to help us along with that.
However, as I am currently reading and thinking a lot about Christian Belief I might add, that, here too, the respect for the living and this planet is inherent and should be reflected in the actions of any one who calls him/herself Christian.
You know, who can f*** off, in my opinion> you name it. I don't like him either, as much as I dislike any idiotic business mind that disregards the fragility of life.
Therefore, Bush is only good when it grows where it is natural.
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