the savage materialists

"I have been watching videos on primal people who live in remote areas and it strikes me how they are being driven out and their worlds left in ruins so that "civilized"people, like you and me, can have those things that we have grown accustomed to and take for granted. We have those things at their expense... and yet... people are going to great lengths and great expense to save animals that are endangered. We are raping the world with a lust that is out of proportion with what nature intended. We speak of global warming and of the greenhouse gases and of the pollution from fossil fuels and few really seem to see that if we continue to live as we are living now, and continue to rape the land that these remote tribes of  people will be the first to go, and we will be in line in due course of time as well. .. just as the Native Americans are struggling for survival today, for the same reasons. Not so long ago families owned acres of land,and farmed it. There were many dairy farms. Now there are few and the foods are grown with chemicals and the cattle and other animals that once lived on farms,outdoors, are kept in huge controlled barns and in cages and never allowed the freedom to graze in open pastures or roam in wild grasses. Soon we will all be living in controlled environments living  in little cubicles , in controlled environments and never able to go outside and roam and feel the sun and breezes and smell the flowers ... and is happening now, and people welcome it... air conditioning, artificial lighting, and clothes driers, being the most obvious conveniences that we not only accept, but welcome as blessings that free us to do other things... like work more hours just to have our basic needs met... and many are not able to do so, and are finding themselves on the streets without food or medical attention, right here in America. Open your eyes... open your minds... the world is closing in on us... it is closing in on YOU.... like a stranger with a lolllipop it beckons... and the people follow like children lusting for the sweet taste of materialistic success, which most will never have, and those who do, have sold their souls for, and dance like puppets to entertain us...... and they smile because not to is to die..."

comment composed by RiverLightRider