on the profoundness of humanity

Wed, Sep 2, 2009

Sometimes you wonder how the human race got this far. Indeed, sometimes it must have been touch and go, what with the ever present threat of nuclear warfare and the actual use of nuclear bombs. Except, while humanity has been patting itself on the back over its non proliferation this, peace treaty that, harmonious accord something else, the planet has been slowly cooking in the background and now, apparently, we’re all fecked. Sea levels will rise, there will be no ice at the poles and the planet will be infested with scientists. No-one trusts a scientist any more. No-one even likes a scientist any more unless they’re pretty and don’t tell us how to run our lives in a multimedia telly extravaganza, with an ever changing background of collapsing ice shelves and drowning polar bears.

The Polar Bear has become the symbol of humanity’s failure to protect its environment. But the signs have been there all along. The Passenger Pigeon for example. Five BILLION! were once to be found in America, with flocks a mile long and 300 MILES wide! 2 BILLION birds in one flock. Now they are extinct. Exterminated by humans. There are no eagles in England. All exterminated. There are around 30 million hens in the UK living in what can only be described as avian concentration camps, for eighteen months of their short brutal lives, to provide cheap eggs for people who can’t afford organic free range produce as that would mean giving up smoking. After their brutally productive period is over the hens are killed and added to other food.

What possible worth can we invest in scientists who fly to conferences to talk about reducing Joe Public’s “carbon footprint”? A government that tells us we must walk to work or be taxed to the hilt via the fuel tax escalator, while it builds another runway at Heathrow? A government that denigrates our lives by branding us criminals for using light bulbs unless we use ones that are no use for reading and make peoples’ lives a misery, while they light up every attraction in London?

To my mind, science is like every other discipline. It has fantastic moments of genius but for the vast majority of the time, it is humdrum, boring and downright disgusting. Its proponents, known as “scientists”, hide behind obfuscated language to both impress funding agencies and make them look different from the rest of society. This is proof:

“Prediction of ocular irritancy of prototype shampoo formulations by the isolated rabbit eye (IRE) test and bovine corneal opacity and permeability (BCOP) assay” [ref]

Fancy language for blinding rabbits and cattle with shampoo. Well almost. This technique has “advanced” from the previous “in vivo” incarnation where the crap was just squirted into their eyes and “scientists” gathered round to see what would happen to the unfortunate animal. in vitro, on the other hand, just means they’ve killed it first and whipped its eyes out for the same test.

Science is a dirty word these days. And today it became even dirtier. Over the next ten years, 54 million animals will be tortured to prove that the shit we use in our everyday lives is safe to use, in our everyday lives. When you buy a bottle of chemical crap to pour down your toilet, some batch of little animals will have died to prove that if you are too stupid not to drink the stuff, you will not die.

But how can such assurances be made by “scientists”? We are told that pills don’t always work as different people react in different ways to the same medicine. What works for one may kill another. Yet these idiots pronounce that just because they have a table full of dead rodents we are safe to drink the shit we pour down the toilet.

We are told humans are a complex species but they shit on their environment and destroy their planet. They kill their fellow humans because they look different or speak differently. They have no regard for other life forms. They have no respect for anything other than themselves.

Isn’t it profound that arguably the greatest scientist known to man, who placed man firmly in context in the natural world and who made man humble in the face of eternal evolution, gave his name not to a prestigious scientific prize for outstanding contributions to human knowledge but to an annual award for brainless morons.

Where will this collection of destructive halfwits known as the human race end up next? They’re already planning to fire missiles at the moon and it’s just so utterly profound that the only way they can search for the giver of life, water, is by using the taker of lives, the missile.