Lets all take a moment to give thanks to our hyper-materialistic, murderous, artificial, omnicidal, ecocidal, genocidal, suicidal, self-defeating, tyrannical culture that disadvantages scores of innocent human beings in order that you live in privilege..... This was a nation made of waste with no end in sight. Domestic waste, medical waste, industrial waste formed their own perverse geography. Stinking rivers sluiced through banks of putrid trash, mountains, valleys, peaks and troughs all formed from discarded filth. An ecology based on our indifference and ignorance in the “cradle of civilization” where our species is said to have originated. Here amid the pestilence I saw Armageddon. Here the end of the world is not a prophecy but a condition. A demented herd chewed polystyrene cud. Sows fed their piglets in the bilge. Gloomy shadows split the sun as marabou storks, five foot in span with ragged labial throats, swooped down. My mate Nik said he had to revise his vision of hell to include what he’d seen.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:51:25 +0000