Were
good with committing a majority of world population to an
inescapable $1 a day existence
Yet,
were told that the wondrous ingenuity and creative energy of our
people was our greatest asset
Made
sure our biggest strides in any subject were for the butchering of
each other on massive scales
Unable
to stop slaughtering each other, our very habitat became legalized
mass collateral damage
We
channelized every major river and converted them all into drains for
our toxic daily wastes
Clearcut
all the old-growth forests for ticky-tack development and/or
subsistence firewood
Blindly
leveled both natural and man-made structures during our constant
internecine warfare
While
the Chinese depended on laughably unreal growth rates simply to stave
off vast social unrest
Wiped
out almost all the whales, poisoned their milk and clamored to hunt
down the rest
Songbirds
and raptors disappeared in what seemed like silence, given our own
ever-increasing
noise
Amphibians
were extinguished via our fungi, chemicals, climate change and
wetland reclamation
But,
in terms of protection, the fundamentals of our economy still
remained our highest priority
Squeezed
the great cats we so admired into ever more fragmented and marginal
habitats
Even
the vast world ocean was polluted, stripped of its life and its
breeding grounds destroyed
Our
own population carelessly bloomed well beyond the supporting earth’s
carrying capacity
Nonetheless,
we had to chose
to focus upon lowering unemployment rates and family food prices
Polluted
and wasted the very fresh water we needed each day for our own simple
survival
Covered
unplanned cities in gloomy blankets of their own choking
and poisonous wastes
Managed
to alter the gaseous balance of the entire atmosphere in record time…
And
committed no precious resources to that disaster by labeling it as
natural
or part of His plan
Invented
and franchised ironclad
religions to enslave man’s innocent need to faith
Destroyed
the living soil in a thousandth of the time that it took to be
created
Blindly
became the first biological organism to cause a mass extinction on
this planet, our only home
Offshored
our workers with the fairytale of freeing them up for the
higher-paying jobs of tomorrow
Ignored
history
and family wisdom and then re-created their mistakes on grander &
deadlier scales
Replaced
iron-fisted totalitarian control with the ethnic cleansing of
newly-liberated lands
Spoke
glibly of the pipedream of peace while spending more
on armaments each and every year
Made
tough & incontrovertible political decisions in private dialogues
with a mass personal savior
Replaced
stodgy manufacturing with go-go financial services and saw CEO
bonuses explode
Pioneered
negative savings rates as a convenient and necessary source of
income
Proclaimed
that a vapid
consumerism was the very foundation of our ever-growing economic
miracle
Deregulated
the giant banks who got rich gambling, went bankrupt and then
squealed
for bailouts
Pumped
newly-printed easy money into the financial shams we deceivingly
declared too big to fail
Blackmailed
them with stock market crashes until we got our huge,
no-strings-attached payouts
Saw
all these things as small prices to pay during our sanctified pursuit
of sacred individual happiness
Lived
in smug contentment, marginalizing with soundbites & cynical
smirks any and all who disagreed