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Fabulous Times
Dec. 27th, 2009 01:21 amJust came back from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yoshiinjapan 's party. It was great! Saw lots of old friends, and made a few new ones. We even had a secret special character unlocked (have to use the group appropriate terminology)! Josh came to visit all the way from Georgia. He claims he hasn't picked up the southern "twang" and that he's a "new yoaka," but these things creep up on you. I still have the Hawai'ian tag question at the end of sentences, yeah?
On the way down to the city this afternoon, I managed to depress myself thouroughly by thinking about how ridiculously far human life has spead on the planet. I was reading a sample of a book called "Eating Animals" (I think that's what it's called). And it is depressing because he is talking about factory farming of animals, and was likely going to start pushing for vegetarianism. Except that agriculture is all fucked now too. Like how there is no crop switching, and too many pesticides, and how they crowd the plants, etc. And it's not like plants want to die for us either. On the one hand we are greedy and terrible and there are too many people and not enough resources. On the other hand, I don't think we should have to apologize for needing to survive off of living tissue and being animals ourselves just trying to live in our own self interests.
It depressed me because it's all a mess, and when I think about it too much I get overwhelmed with the weight of it all; the problems we face as a species. And instead of feeling like I could be doing something about it, and advocating for change, I just feel despair and sadness.
Maybe this is my sign to get involved in some environmental issue as a volunteer, so that I can redirect this energy into something positive. Plus it will be good to have other activities to be involved with just on a personal level, rather than being all school and academia. I have to do some research about it. Some of these organizations just piss me off.
yoshiinjapan 's party. It was great! Saw lots of old friends, and made a few new ones. We even had a secret special character unlocked (have to use the group appropriate terminology)! Josh came to visit all the way from Georgia. He claims he hasn't picked up the southern "twang" and that he's a "new yoaka," but these things creep up on you. I still have the Hawai'ian tag question at the end of sentences, yeah? On the way down to the city this afternoon, I managed to depress myself thouroughly by thinking about how ridiculously far human life has spead on the planet. I was reading a sample of a book called "Eating Animals" (I think that's what it's called). And it is depressing because he is talking about factory farming of animals, and was likely going to start pushing for vegetarianism. Except that agriculture is all fucked now too. Like how there is no crop switching, and too many pesticides, and how they crowd the plants, etc. And it's not like plants want to die for us either. On the one hand we are greedy and terrible and there are too many people and not enough resources. On the other hand, I don't think we should have to apologize for needing to survive off of living tissue and being animals ourselves just trying to live in our own self interests.
It depressed me because it's all a mess, and when I think about it too much I get overwhelmed with the weight of it all; the problems we face as a species. And instead of feeling like I could be doing something about it, and advocating for change, I just feel despair and sadness.
Maybe this is my sign to get involved in some environmental issue as a volunteer, so that I can redirect this energy into something positive. Plus it will be good to have other activities to be involved with just on a personal level, rather than being all school and academia. I have to do some research about it. Some of these organizations just piss me off.
