This essay is written for all the people who do not live by the tenets it speaks of.

When was the last time you thought about what you put in your mouth?  Feeding is something that is the very basis of living.  We share this with all the other earthlings that inhabit this planet.  When animals wake up, they start their quest for food.  Not too long ago, we were the same way.  Even right now, in remote parts of the Earth, tribal peoples spend most of their day looking for, getting and preparing food; and by getting I mean hunting, harvesting and planting… not going to the super market.

But one of the consequences of the modern world that we all live in, and take for granted is just that.  The fact that we have become the dominant animal has provided us an unfortunate reward (and I respectfully borrow the term dominant animal from Prof. Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and The Dominant Animal).  Rather than having to hunt, or even earn our food by working for it, we step into our “rolling couches” (the truthful term for a car), and roll our lazy behinds to a building where the food is already prepared for our consumption (grocery store).  All we have to do is give the Homo Sapien guarding the food supply (the cashier) some paper with pictures on it (money), and you are allowed to take your portion home.

We no longer operate within the food chain.  We are the ultimate predator, killing anything that comes in our way.  Human beings no longer worry about being eaten.  Since food is so readily available we choose to occupy ourselves with working for paper, so that we can trade that paper for food when it is feeding time.  Everyone in the system does this.  Even the guardian of the food (the cashier) has to pay for the food in the store they guard.  The driver of the truck that delivers the food, he too has to pay.  The people working in the field, to pick the food… they pay too.  We have agreed to work in a system, where paper dominates your ability to feed.  That is the human contract.

But this illusion of plentifulness has its side effects.  As the song Don’t Sleep by the Elevaters points out, there are “no subscriptions without the tax”.  What tax?  You watched it in the video above.  THAT my friends, is the beastly result of Homo Sapien Sapien not having to earn it’s food.  Fat, mislead humans, misleading other humans to a live a life of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity and government dependency (Medicare and Medicaid).  Read more here: http://thegoldenspiral.org/2009/06/08/bpa-the-bad-and-the-ugly-there-is-no-good/

We live too rich.  The spoils of it is now finally showing itself.  Imagine this sort of display in the plains of Africa?  Imagine this being shown to the peoples of Afghanistan, the very people we are trying to liberate from the brutal grip of fundamentalist religion.  We are going liberate them from one evil, and feed them another… this new culture of ours.

This is wrong on so many levels.  Just think of the inequity of ethics, when we treat the animals that died for this grotesque meal of these people with such indignity; only to create another form of indignity.  The very people that eat meat derived from industrial farming, are suffering the consequences… disease.  Suffering begets suffering.

Isn’t it time we changed our world.  Isn’t it time we each made a decision to change our lives by participating in our decisions rather having decisions made for us by our televisions sets?  If the voice in your mind quietly told you right now, that you are not one of those people; then I hate to inform you… but you have already been programmed.  Only the people who are aware of this happening can change it in their own lives.  Look around you.  Marketing everywhere.  Cities are merely space for marketing.  Nothing is safe, not even the sky.  I couldn’t go to the beach without having to deal with these idiots:

Plane Flying With Banner Ad... at the Beach.

The sad part is that this is so rampant that we can’t even see it anymore.  Our incredible ability to create technology results in web sites where Homo Sapiens can capture video of something and make it available to others to learn from or experience, and this is what we do with it:

I can’t wait until she wins that competition and contributes her amazing skills to further advance humanity.

What I am talking about here is that everything in our society is starting to answer to the LOWEST common denominator.  Our health, our intelligence, our cultural advancement, our science, our value systems, and even our politics.  It saddens me to see that society has taken Mike Judge’s film Idiocracy and turned it into an instruction manual.

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.  If every one of us individually heeds that message, the world changes.  It’s really quite elegant and simple.  All you have to do to change the world, is wake up, and choose to be a better person.

Eat better.  Talk better.  Do better.  Think better.  Choose better.  Love better.

“Good, better, best.  Never let it rest.  Until your good is better, and your better, best.”

That is an old quote that many of you might know already.  It is quoted as being said by St. Jerome (c. 347 – 420 A.D.).  But I find it interesting that there are numerous articles littering the internet giving credit to Tim Duncan, a basketball player who said this quote in an interview because his mom always said it to him.  So Yahoo Answers shows this quote as Tim Duncan’s rather than St. Jerome (Link Here).  If this isn’t the beginning of idiocracy I’m not sure what is.

Come on people.  You DO NOT know what you are eating.  You are being programmed by your televisions.

Let’s figure this out shall we?  To help, I started a forum.  You will see a new tab [Forum] which will take you to an open area of the site.  You don’t have to register.  You can be completely anonymous.  Start talking.  Let’s see where the solutions to this problem are.

There is only one rule: if you post insults, vulgarity, or with hate, your comment will be deleted.  This is a forum for intelligent Homo Sapiens.

Just incase you still doubt…