It is undeniably true that our species has made great strides in quite a few fields of scientific endeavor, and yet in the one field of endeavor that is by far the most important — the one field that will stave off our impending doom and allow us to continue to evolve at all; the field of endeavor that would have us finally turn our useless swords into plowshares and our wicked factory farms into fruit-full fairgrounds — we have made almost no progress whatsoever.

 

Yes, our species IS still relatively young, and yet no longer close to young enough for our rampant immorality and flagrant lack of decency to remain excusable. And indeed, if we continue onward in our currently vile and respectless ways, we will most certainly — and most deservedly — fall into a most brutal extinction.

 

And yet our story mustn’t end in such a painful (and painfully embarrassing) fashion, my Friends … There is still time to right our wrongs … There is still time to transcend our barbarisms and begin to be the loving Caretakers of other species, instead of the cancerous devourers thereof.

 

Amen … Let it be so.

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt