Tuesday 20 June 2006

I want to be a natureist

Bugger being an environmentalist - I want to be a natureist. Not naturalist, as that involves looking at bugs and weeds and things through a microscope, but a natureist.

If being an environmentalist is about being nice to the planet, being a natureist is being true to nature.

Let's say you are sitting at a pub with a vegan and a big steak is put in front of you. You simply say, "What would a lion, sitting out in a wild, natural state in Africa do?" Then you do what the lion would do - kill the vegan and eat her, then have the steak for dessert.

Or, you're sitting at a football game and a supporter of the opposite team tries to sit in your area. You do what monkeys or wolves or bears would do - drive the interloper out of your patch. If necessary, beat him to death with rocks. People who are not part of your "tribe" are invaders - potential stealers of resources (like the good seats near the goals) - so nature says that you must defend your turf to the death. Your survival depends on it. Your job is to stick with your mob of monkeys.

Another example - some goon starts talking about equality and how everyone should be treated the same. You have two choices - you can act like the 400 kilo gorilla that is the king of his gorilla pack and crush the stupid little turd to death, or you can act like a rooster and peck him to death. After all hierarchy rules in the natural world. The stallion rules the herd of horses. The goat with the biggest horns gets to root all the nanny goats, whilst the other goats look on or get sloppy seconds. The biggest, the meanest, the toughest and the most aggressive get the goodies, whilst the meek end up as fish food. Talents are not evenly distributed across the population. Some people are very good at certain things (running really fast, kicking goals, lifting weights, swimming 400 metres, mathematics, writing essays etc) whilst others are pretty mediocre at everything, or even downright useless. That's alright - beehives have drones, and there is no reason why human societies can't have them too. You are not an individual special snowflake - you are part of the all-singing crap of the world.

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