May 27, 2009

• Arrogance
  

  My wife asked me this morning if I knew what was going on with the seals and the children in San Diego. Duh, of course not. I rely on the reactions of the people in my life the same way a spider relies on the vibrations in her web to notify her of anything entering it of which she should be aware. My choice is to live in another world where peace of mind reigns. It's taken years of work to insulate myself from the twanging of the spider web in which the world seems to be caught. One of my sisters called me a week ago and told me I was arrogant. Twang! First I've heard from her in a couple of years. Just so we're clear, arrogant is having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities. What can I say? Of course I'm arrogant. The difference, as far as I can tell, between my arrogance and most other people's isn't that I have it but that I reveal it. Not to the world. That's mostly a waste of time. I reveal my arrogance to myself, the place where it might do some good to see it and accept it. Yes, I admit it. In the big scheme of things my sense of importance to myself is grossly exaggerated. It takes daily reminders to bring myself into a universal scale where I'm less than a particle of sand on a universal beach so vast that the imagination staggers in the light of it like a drunken San Diego sailor on Saturday night shore leave. How difficult it is for us to see our own arrogance. It stings. Of course it stings in an indirect way if we don't see it and most prefer that. Indirect is so much easier to blame on others. Once removed from cause and effect is nice and twice removed is twice as nice. Unless you wish to be something other than what you are being.

  You've got to love the entitled morons of La Jolla who will try to save the whales and then see no contradiction in spending upwards of seven hundred thousands of dollars a year to drive the seals off the beach so the children can have a place of their own. It's just this sort of human arrogance that has driven so many species to extinction. It's our earth and they'd better get the hell off it or we'll be forced to eliminate them. If the seals were trying to have their babies in Chuck E. Cheese's I could see the need for barking dog sounds and water hoses to save the seals. That's not necessary though because seals are smarter than humans when it comes to the environment in which they wish to raise their offspring. Honestly, I don't blame the residents of La Jolla or San Diego. How could I? They are like sheep that have gone astray. The fact is that sheep are stupid and once they get lost they're not as smart as pigeons or dogs who can find their way back home. You've got to go out and round up the poor little wooly headed creatures to save them from themselves. I'm not shepherding in La Jolla so they're going to have to sort this out themselves. Either that or a couple of wolves will show up for dinner.

  The poor (literally) city of San Diego is going to have to pay the bill to try to appease the few entitled morons who want their beach back. Never mind that the seals were there first. Might makes right when you're arrogant. I admire the city's approach. Barking dog sounds broadcast on the beach from six a.m. to sunset seven days a week would certainly convince me to stay away from the beach. The city will probably be sued to provide ear plugs for the children of the rich and infamous. There's no such thing as a frivolous law suit when we value ourselves as highly as we do. Let all the universe bend the knee and worship our right to do what is in our own short-sighted self-interest. It's part of the human condition that can't be cured by the effects of our insanity. We'll either continue our march toward extinction or we'll begin to see ourselves for what we really are. Pompous, arrogant children playing Russian roulette with a universal revolver. This will be a fight to the death and we don't seem to mind dying as long as we're the last species to do it. Silly when you think about it. The rats and cockroaches are the real survivors.

  Update:
  A San Diego judge today decided the seals must go according to the law. The legal wrangling will continue for months and months to come while a new state law is passed that will put an end to the arrogance of entitlement. Barking dog sounds and water guns! Sweet Jesus. What will we think of next?
  

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