Heart Of Man

Another week on our lovely planet. It’s been really odd seeing how everything seems to be speeding up. I suspect most people have a sense of this, even if we can’t quite quantify the feeling. In the UK we’ve of course had a coup d’etat in all but name. My guess is that Boris wasn’t down with whatever is planned for us next, so he had to go. Spoiler alert – if you want to go abroad, I’d do it before September.

Not that Boris was on the side of the angels by any means but it seems to me that his heart wasn’t really in it. Essentially, he’s the type of person who fancies being king of the world but whose sense of humour or irony, not to mention sloth, would always prevent him from ruthlessly crushing his enemies. So goodbye Boris, and good luck to us all. I guess the next incumbent is going to be someone who’s all in – don’t you just want to dance a jig at the prospect? Remember, it doesn’t matter who you vote for – the government always gets in. Nil desperandum, friends. For greater is He who is in us then he who is in the world. And it doesn’t matter if you believe that truth or not, the best part of truth is that it’s always true, as Kamala Harris might very well say 🙂

What really caught my imagination this week wasn’t British political shenanigans but the Georgia guidestones. If you’ve never heard of them, GIYF. They were blown up this week by person or persons unknown but I’ve always regarded them with astonishment. Bad enough that someone might write this hate letter to the human race – to carve it in stone and display it as a manifesto of malevolence is something else. To quote Jeremiah, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

The first guideline proposes maintaining the human population at 500 million ‘in perpetual balance with nature’, whatever that may mean. To put that in perspective for you, the combined population of the USA and Nigeria is more than 500 million. Everyone else is dead – all Finns, Estonians, Kenyans, Latvians, Congolese, Ghanains, Australians, Arabs of all nations, Indians, Chinese, etc etc Everyone you know or have ever met unless they are a citizen of those two countries is dead. All citizens of the 191 other countries, poof, gone.In fact you’d have to kill some citizens of the surviving countries to bring the number down to 500 million. A brave new world indeed, who wouldn’t wish to live in lonely splendour in this new Eden?

And just in case you really hate Arabs or Americans or whatever and would love to see them decimated, let me tell you – that 500 million? You’re not on that list. Your parents, children, neighbours, friends, none of them are on that list. Stop reading this and go to your local park/mall/market – nobody you meet will be on that list, they’re all dead. And how do we maintain that magic number – think about it. If you produce child number 500 million and 1 in this new Eden because you’ve had twins, what happens next? That’s a bit of a cheat – in new Eden, reproductive rights will only apply to the chosen and all babies will be gestated in incubators before being sent to the state nurseries so no need to worry!

Yeah, but sounds like a good idea when you think about it, you say. What about overpopulation, you say? For this, you need a trusty calculator. Forget that old chestnut about Texas and fitting in the world population. Give yourself some leeway, use the North and South American continents and then factor in that some of those people will make up families that can combine their allocated area. It’s not really cramped, is it? And you still have another five empty continents that you can dedicate to agriculture and commerce. To quote Gandhi, “There is enough [land, in this case] for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed.”

So, I don’t despair. Two reasons, our side wins – it’s written and it can’t be shaken so hurrah for humanity. And secondly, people are out there today, living their lives, having a drink with friends, enjoying their families, some at the beach, some at home, some in the garden etc etc. We are never in the world, without hope. As long as the beautiful Earth stands, insane festivals like the Tomato festival in Spain go on, and human hearts are filled with love and compassion, all will be well. All the images below are of Nigeria, barring the Spanish tomato festival photo. Those are some of the resources the government is squandering through neglect, but that’s a story for another day. Here endeth the sermon. It’s a beautiful world that is full of beautiful people and we are to be valued above rubies and precious stones. Have a good one.