In antique times, what is now known as
Cabo São Vicente, the extreme southeastern point of mainland Europe,
was thought to be the end of the world, farther from it there was
only the great ocean where nobody had been and nobody had means nor
courage to venture. I have visited this ancient end of the world,
finis terrae twice, and after
my last trip there I came back as a racist. Seeing all the rubbish
people, I suppose they are mainly tourists from richer European
countries, throw everywhere convinced me that me and my friends from
the one and these happy polluters belong to different races. And
there can be no or very little mutual understanding between them and
us. I think our main differences are not genetic (I don't exclude
this completeley), but memetic. As there are or were different human
genetic races, now slowly mixing and amalgamating, there are
different memetic races, and their number is probably increasing. My
racism arises from the understanding of non-communicability between
the polluters and non-polluters, and led me to an idea that we would
need a kind of a neo-apartheid system, we would profit from not
living in the same areas, sharing the same space. It would nice to
assign the happy polluters, the tourists with their big cars and
dogs, casks of beer, caravans and golf courses to some reservations
or ghettoes. But I understand that people who have some understanding
for nature, and have (consequently?) little understanding for these
individuals of our own species, are very much a minority. And it's us
who need reservations and ghettoes. We and some other animals, many
of them in danger of extinction as the Iberian lynx or even Indian
tiger... In the age of entertainment (including sports) and
bestsellers replacing most of other culture we intellectuals should
think of creating such reservations for ourselves, members of small
tribes incapable of living the life designed for us by trendmakers.
Perhaps we should begin by founding some kind of monasteries as
intelligent people did in the darkest ages of European history. Our
age seems to be very colourful, but it's only the surface. The
coloured rubbish covers the surface and shadows everything that lies
under it, turning everything there into deepening darkness.
samedi 16 mars 2013
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