COME AND GET ME MONSANTO

                                          Photograph by Brian Fender

Although I have grown to enjoy the simplest of things in this, less active existence, I still want to grab the world by the shoulders and scream WAKE UP!  So I will be sure and start it off on a happy note.   Not!

Once we decimated a group of people who did not see themselves as superior to the wildlife around them, who took only what was necessary for their survival and lived in harmony with their surroundings, we have established ourselves as far superior to the natural world.  Or have we?

We spend so much time trying to differentiate ourselves from one another, by religious and political semantics, the color of our skin, socioeconomic status, the car we drive, the phone we have, how good a soccer player our kids are, and non of this is done in harmony with the environment around us.  In fact it has so distracted us, we largely think of the environment in terms of how to best accommodate our down time, whether with palm trees and beaches or mountains and ski slopes.

We like to think of ourselves as an evolved species, but Paris Hilton and The Kardashians exist people.  And, I mean, you can't get more natural than Paris Hilton and the Kardashians.  Everything that we are bombarded with, is about defeating nature.  Monsanto has created a cluster fuck with their patent on different strains of grains, they have destroyed the biodiversity of our food supply out of pure greed.  They have genetically modified seeds (the process by which they do this is so frightening I'm at a loss for words, which as most of you know is saying something) to be resistant to a chemical that kills other plants, crops that produce dormant seeds.  They are trying to out nature Mother Nature and very few, including our government, seem to care.  Yet we are allowing ourselves to be distracted by gay marriage and abortion rights on an overpopulated planet.  You want to know what is the biggest threat to the family take a look at your food supply and tell your preacher to start yelling about that from the pulpit.

But I know, we have come so far, so why question it?  I mean if you think you're looking a little too old they can cut off a piece of your ass and slap it on your face now.  That's real innovation!

This months post (there may be more, there may not) is about my favorite new word, can we all say it together...BIOMIMICRY and illustrates just how nature Trumps  us Superior Beings (and I'm not talking about the douche bag with the bad hair). 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc