Rogue Species

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Rogue Species

Rogue species.                 Twisted minds

Violent actions                 Many kinds

Malformed brains           Our DNA

Greed and cruelty           Come what may

We’re a rogue species, everyone at odds,

Pretending we’re sane

But damaged goods

Throughout history         Down the years

Mass destruction             Many fears

Maunufacturing               Prejudice and hate

Institutionalised              Church and state.

We’re a rogue species, everyone at odds,

Pretending we’re sane

But damaged goods

Opher – 3.1.2025

My first poem of 2025 is a little sad. A recognition of the reality of human beings. We really aren’t very nice. Indeed, I think we are totally deranged. Our default position is one of greed. We have a love of death and cruelty. We strive for power and recognition. We instil division and hate.

Just look at history with its litany of war, torture and destruction. It’s everywhere. Given half a chance we indulge in nastiness of the worst type.

Just look at the state and religion – imprisonment, torture machines, war and hate. All vying for supremacy and suppressing all opposition.

Just look at the way we organise our countries and the whole world – absolute insanity, competition, racism, wars, defence, politics, religion. We are utterly mad.

We’re all to blame. We all contribute. We elect monsters – psychopaths, narcissists, sociopaths and somehow expect them to make things better. We are mad.

Individually we are kind, caring and compassionate. Put us in a group and we become maniacs.

George Carlin’s American Dream

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I just spent the weirdest New Year of all time. I watched George Carlin’s American Dream. Had to watch it to the very end. It was captivating. Probably the best bit of TV I’ve watched.

He took Lenny Bruce a stage further. This wasn’t comedy even though it made me laugh; it was acute social observation.

George Carlin’s American Dream (TV Series 2022) – IMDb

You need to watch it. Well worth it. Sometimes it’s hard to get your head round where George was coming from. It was so dark. But this is what I gleaned:

We are a rogue species. Our whole history has been run on violence and destruction. We are a completely messed up species. There is no hope for us. The sooner we are all gone the better.

Individually we are fine but put us together in a group and we become rabid, completely nuts. Lunatic religions. Lunatic politics. Lunatic conspiracy. Just lunatic.

What we need is a good virus to eradicate us.

The whole world is run by around 900 billionaires for 900 billionaires. They don’t give a fuck about us. THEY REALLY DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT US!

To them we are an expendable workforce, a mindlesss bunch of soldiers to be deployed and a bunch of suckers to be exploited. Our lives are worthless, pointless and completely useless. We exist so that they can do what they want. Fortunately for them we are extremely gullible and easy to control.

The last thing that 900 want is an educated, thinking public. They like us stupid, working for them, sacrificing ourselves for them and voting for who they tell us to. They want a stupid, ill-informed bunch of morons unable to reason. They want dope, soap and social media. When we’re not working for them they want us comatose.

The way the world is organised is complete madness and there is no way of putting it right because we, as a species, are insane. We are as guilty as the 900 responsible for the shit show. We put them in charge. We elect their puppets.

All we can do is remove ourselves from the shitshow and watch it as entertainment.

There is no hope. Give up the idea of hope. Give up the idea of trying to make things better. There is no way. We are all fundamentally damaged. We are fucked.

War, natural disasters, starvation, volcanoes, hurricanes, drought, global warming, plagues, sit back and enjoy. It’s entertainment. We are doomed. Anything that helps kill us off is good. It’s entertainment. Divorce yourself. There is no hope.

Forget about the planet. We cannot hurt the planet. Even if we wipe out 99% of life it’ll come back. The planet’s not in danger. We are! We will be gone and the planet with take a deep sigh and move on. We are the problem and we will kill ourselves and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.