Yeah I slathered that toe with a ton of salve, once I dragged myself in the house and finally located a jar of it. A puddle of salve and blood on the floor... I’m going to make another batch- this one works but not nearly as well as I’d hoped and not nearly as well as the first batch worked. Not sure why - maybe I need to follow the recipe better.
We are definitely on a bad trajectory in the short and medium term. I shudder to think of how bad things will get in future and what world my kid will be living in. I wonder if television had never been invented, if people would have more time to see the obvious. Probably not- we used to be even blinder, as far as I can see. And like everything else we make, there’s a mix of good and bad and such a thing as good television as well.
It can be shocking to meet the tourists where I live and see their points of view. They all seem to appreciate my home and the nature, but mostly in a very disconnected and skewed fashion. I hitched a free ride back from kayaking on a zodiac tourist transport and listened to this long self-righteous rant from some of them, as we passed some clearcuts, about the stupid locals and their logging practices and how the whole place should be made into a park. I had to point out that the logging is carried out by huge corporations from the city, where they come from, and all the logs and 99.999% of the money goes down to them as well. The locals mostly hate the situation but can’t control it. And the Parks people just seem to drive boats around burning gas, enforcing a zillion rules and giving people tickets for displacing pebbles and pieces of moss in the ‘wilderness paradise’.
I asked the driver of our eco-friendly tour boat how much gas he burned that day. 430 litres... We are all part of the problem. There’s just so damn many of us.
I know in the big picture it will right itself and, probably re- form without humans in it. But myself I’ll badly miss peaceful wide open spaces and abundant fish and wildlife. I mean to make the most of what’s left while I’m here though.
I guess what I was trying to say about people’s personality and how it relates to religion, is we all have our little angle on things. I know many religious people who are much better people than me and I completely admire their faith and the codes that they live by. Of course I know religious people who are jerks too, and non-religious people who are also jerks.
I like what GT said about faith. I hadn’t quite thought of things that way but it makes perfect sense. Spent a couple decades without much of it (faith, or sense either) and it wasn’t fun at all.