School Kids Murdered, Social Evolution, The Falling Ruble, Oil Economy, The Interview Movie and North Korea, Boko Haram, Kurds. ISIS, Landmines, and the Cunning Fennec Fox . . .

20 December 2014

1655 hrs

Woo Hoo!  20,000+ page views for the CFF. Thank you, you genius humanists. You are the very best of all Patient Readers.

Well Folks . . .

Depression phase of the cycle setting in . . .  I'll try to be lucid in my cynicism.

Peshawar . . . Pakistan . . . The Taliban . . .

St. John's Cathedral, Peshawar, Pakistan . . .

yeah, a christian church

80+ murdered children.

Jesus Fucking Nuns and all . . .

How the fuck does that work, Patient Reader?  How do we find it in our hearts to even watch a school full of teachers and students all shot up into pieces like that?

Sure.  We are outraged when the Harrises and the Klebolds shoot up a school in suburban Colorado.

Or a certain Kinkel in Thurston, Oregon- whaddup, Kip?

Sing it sister!

How about 20 babies in Connecticut?

Movie-goers, again in Colorado.

No wonder they legalized weed, there.  Mellow out, dudes!

141+ dead in a Peshawar abattoir.  Over 80 of them school kids.  Taliban.  Jesus.

They say it's revenge against the army's continued attacks against the Taliban fighters in the region.  Naturally, you kill the kids.

Now look.  It doesn't make any sense, nor is there any semblance of reason real or imagined in this, or any scenario where murder, especially kindercide, is committed by Homo sapiens sapiens.  Intelligent man.

But it's what we do.  Humans, I mean.  Humanity, ironically, has none- or at least, very little.

Throughout our bloody, savage history, we have always found it necessary for violence and the subjugation, if not outright destruction, of those we deem foe.  For whatever reason.

Remember, we are to rip the children from the womb and dash their heads on the rocks . . .

Even that sweet and loving tome we know as the Holy Bible is rife with massacre and rape; sexual abuse of children; bad people doing bad things.

Even god, at times, laments the evil he perpetrates.

So what do we do with this terrible knowledge?   What do we do when we realize that humanity takes one step forward and two steps back?

How do we reconcile the WHOS we want to be with the critters we actually are?

How do we hope and dream?

Are the majority of humans filled with a sort of . . . Super-optimism?   Do we think that we are actually inherently good, even though as toddlers we must be instructed not to hit our little brothers?   How we must be educated in every possible way to demonstrate proper social mores?

Or do we?   Don't we already know- doesn't our genetic code already tell us- that killing is wrong?   Why do we fall on different points of the spectrum from one another?   Why do some of us find it easy to kill a deer and yet killing another person is an abhorrent act?

Why do I catch those goddam creepy fucking spiders and set them free in my garden?   Twenty years ago they deserved the bottom of my shoe.  Now I realize I don't have the right to extinguish life of any kind . . . in any form.

Will I ever have an answer?

What I do know is walking through a school and shooting kids is wrong.  I mean, as a scientist I even look at it from an evolutionary point of view:

How many would have been engineers, building the new great structures and spans of the world?

How many would have expanded our knowledge of science?

Which one would have cured cancer?

Well, we’ll never fucking know because we just can't seem to stop killing.

What can we do about the here and now, though?  Can we punish anyone?  Would it even matter if we could, or did?

Do we now just sit by and hope it doesn't happen again?  Has that ever worked, hoping that the Taliban would evolve a conscience and see the errors in their ways when it comes to doing the right thing?  Has that ever worked with humanity in general?

This isn't the last atrocity we're going to see.  Not by a long shot.  Perhaps we need to simply inure ourselves to these periodic interruptions in our societal evolution.   Maybe we just need to say, “Wow.  Glad that wasn't my kid . . .” 

Maybe we should just get used to it . . .

Cold, no?

I'm not here to solve our problems, Patient Reader, nor am I under any assumptions that I am capable of doing so.

As the Cunning Fennec Fox I am only hoping to make us think.  To approach a problem as intelligent men and women, Homo sapiens sapiens, and perhaps some of you who are undoubtedly smarter than I, can fix all that is oh so broken.

Ok. Moving on.

The ruble closed yesterday at 59.6168.  The “psychological barrier” is 60- if you're able to extrapolate its meaning. I have faith in y’all.

So it's said that this is due to the falling prices in oil worldwide. You know oil; its economy is governed by the American dollar?  Anyway . . .

Which begs the question: is America pushing the price of oil down to intentionally harm the Russian economy?  Do you think we would really do such a thing?

We can't afford to attack Russia with conventional weapons of war . . . But we can certainly damage Russia's, or anyone's economy thusly.

Wouldn't it be nice, since it's so easy, to drop gasoline prices just so middle-class America can better make ends meet?  Aw but, now I'm just being Cuh-Razy.

Sony caved to censorship in the form of terrorism.  Over a comedic satire movie certain to sweep the Oscars . . . Right?  I mean, Seth Rogen and James Franco?  The genius behind Pineapple Express?  How can you go wrong with a production that equals the brilliance of The Godfather or Schindler’s List?

DPRK worries that it makes the Supreme Leadership appear silly . . .

Really?  Have they seen themselves?

Now North Korea is seeking to form a joint probe to find the true perpetrators, like a Tweaker who will steal your shit and then help you look for it.

 Or O.J. looking for the real killer.

Boko Haram invaded another village, killing all the males and taking the women and female children.  Remember, Moses allowed Joshua to do the same.  Straight Old Testament and 21^st Century shit.  Oh well . . . Maybe they won't get raped.

Kurds break the ISIS mountain siege.  Now they're dealing with mines.  You know, the blowy uppy kind.  Yay, humanity!

There was this little thing called the Ottawa Treaty (not to be confused with the Ottawa Conference) in which there was a gathering of nations discussing the banning of anti-personnel mines.

One of the arguments is that when a conflict ceases, the mines are left behind, unintentionally “found” by the likes of farmers preparing fields . . . or by children playing.

35 countries, which include China and Russia, are non-signatories to the treaty/ban. Oh yeah. The U.S. didn't sign it, either.

Amazing 

One Japanese scientist involved in the stem cell research fuck-up resigned; another was found dead in his lab of an apparent suicide.

Dude shoots two NYC cops while they were sitting in their car . . . Then he shoots himself . . .

You know better than anyone else, Patient Reader, that I could wax philosophic as infinitum, but I have to get going on some more photography projects.

I wish you all well and Peace; good health and strength as we tread water in the Dark Sea we call Earth.

I will see you soon, and give those sister-fucking Repubs what’s what when I do.

Always,

The Cunning Fennec Fox