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Extinction Agenda

Day 50 of the Deep Horizon disaster – an estimated 43,903,138 gallons have found their way into the ocean thus far and oil is still leaking at an estimated rate of 4 gallons a second. As staggering as these numbers are things could in fact be much worse as the estimates themselves are wide ranging and no one knows for certain how much oil has leaked or even how much could be leaking right now.

The Deep Horizon Disaster is yet another chapter in the history of people and our environment suffering at the hands of corporate greed, corruption and irresponsibility.  Yet we as a populace are still surprised when these things happen – oil spill after oil spill, disaster after disaster, tragedy after tragedy.  When will we learn that corporations have no moral compass, only calculators?

The driving force behind our current world culture is money.  It is profit, it is greed.  It is having as much as you can, more than your neighbor and more than you need.  It is about having power and control, image and status.  About ego, envy, and jealousy – it is Capitalism.  We capitalize on the weak and ignorant, on the less developed, on the poor, on the less aggressive, and on the environment.  We consume, assimilate, invade, suppress, pollute, and destroy  all in the pursuit of industry, of positive quarters, of cheap labor and the highest profits.  In this industrialized world the only thing sacred is money  and “In God We Trust”.  All else falls to the hammer, the axe, the drill, chainsaw, bulldozer, refinery, sweatshop, hook, net and harpoon, the bullet, bomb and the battlefield.

Throughout our history man kind has used technology to master his environment.  Initially it was for survival – building a fire for warmth, cutting down trees to build shelter, making arrows and spears to hunt for food and protection.  Our technology has come a long way and our civilization has grown exponentially in every category except in terms of respect – respect for our environment, for wildlife, for other cultures, religions, for other peoples loss, struggle and suffering. We exist in our metropolises removed from the effects of our support of corporations and industry. We watch the fallout on television and when the “story” gets too real, when the commercials for cars, pharmaceuticals, vacations and airlines can’t distract us from the sobering destruction of the monsters we’ve created we switch to something “more entertaining”.

We are an irresponsible civilization.  Ashamed of our actions when confronted by them but too comfortable to change.  We finger-point, we blame but we take no decisive action.  We are too lazy to make hard decisions and choices, instead we leave it to the next generation who then leaves it to the next and the next and so on.  Over the last 500 years we have proven that our species is unwilling to respect our environment and the resources it provides to us.  We have hunted species to extinction, exhausted easily accessible resources and eradicated entire societies through war, greed and economics.  We are like a giant cloud of locusts, destroying all in our path, even our own species.

Our current lifestyle is unsustainable.  Fossil fuels are becoming scarcer and the risks of gathering them outweigh the benefits.  All the easy oil has been found and we are consuming what’s available at such a rate that we will run out of what is left within a generation.  The desperation of our situation although un-reported leads to decisions to deploy such risk laden devices as Deep Horizon and the principles of corporate entities make them prime for disaster.

Humanities greatest progress is made only after our greatest tragedies.  Hopefully when this is said and done the Deep Horizon Disaster will usher in an age of clean, carbon neutral, sustainable energy, but we must be the ones to force change amongst corporations.  After all, why would they when it’s cheaper for them not to?

What more evidence do we need to support the fact that we as a civilization are destroying the earth?  If we don’t alter our attitudes and treatment of the environment immediately we will see it’s ultimate destruction by our hand in our lifetime.  Our monetary agenda has set us on a path of self destruction and our arrogance resulting from being at the top of the food chain has made us oblivious to the fact that the reapers hand is that of man and the hourglass is quickly running out.

Perhaps our extinction is our greatest agenda…

As Small As A Giant

See I was made in my fathers image and they belittle my deeds

Their lustful convictions pledge allegiance to the almighty power and greed

See seeds born withered parents steer children add a lesson to their ways

Some preachers false prophets educated pigeon droppers usin’ our sins, to get paid – slaves.

Give them freedom but give them dope, take away their leaders cause that gives them hope

Sell them dreams of change and things like they were never Kings and Queens before. – as small as a giant.

– Big K.R.I.T.

Big K.R.I.T. – “K.R.I.T. Wuz Here” – Rap Album of The Year