Cancer cells

There is possibly no way to feel better about yourself for doing virtually nothing than to congratulate yourself for being environmentally conscious and savvy – whatever that means.  I can assure you however environmentally friendly your lifestyle is, that toads, cockroaches, earthworms, and even the beavers that gnaw down the trees are doing a far better job than you.  One may think to themselves at such a point, “Yes, and that’s exactly the kind of creatures I am trying to protect and emulate in their coexistence with the environment.”  If that is your sentiment, then perhaps you should make like the earthworm and eat dirt.  This would reduce your carbon footprint significantly, and other than constantly breathing and undergoing cellular respiration in trillions of cells, your carbon output would be getting closer to negligible.  Those kale chips are a great way to reduce your impact – seeing how they’re packaged in excessive polyethylene containers and had to be shipped from heaven knows where…oh, they’re locally and organically grown, you say?  In that case, way to go by eating plants, those natural carbon-sequestering machines which convert carbon dioxide to oxygen with nothing needed but the sun as the input mechanism.   Also, don’t have any children.  Those infectious little vermin would be nothing but further pollutants to an otherwise potentially pristine environment and your responsible family planning would, of course, be essential to the earth’s survival.  This is a modest proposal and is far less than the modest proposal suggested by Jonathan Swift for parents to eat their babies…I am not at all suggesting that – just to not have them in the first place. Humans are, as you may have imagined, like the cancer cells to the giant organism that is Mother Earth; ‘Gaia’, let’s call her.  Earth is one big happy ecosystem but it is been infected with gelatinous bags of protoplasm called humans that the universal oncologist has deemed necessary to excise if the planet herself is to survive and heal herself.  Therefore, we must eradicate these rapidly multiplying, metastasizing cells before they overtake the healthy Mother Earth.  This can be achieved in many forms:  abortion, war, or even suicide if you like Nietzsche or Kamus.  The point is, Mother Earth – and let’s not be coy about it:  you have cancer and we must initiate rapid, immediate, aggressive therapy of multiple different kinds if you are to be cured.  I am quite sure, you being all for ‘natural’ remedies, will want to start the homeopathic treatment first, but I am afraid the shark cartilage will not work this time and we will need to pursue more aggressive avenues to achieve a higher survival prognosis.

Wisdom is proved right by all of its children; and foolishness is proved wrong by the eradication of all of hers. Those who hate wisdom love death, and are expedient and efficient in pursuing this great love of theirs. If humans are the cancer, their destruction is the cure. But if humans are image bearers of God, then they are meant to take dominion over the garden they find themselves in, and work toward making it a garden city. And in that final day, in the true garden city, no vile thing will enter, including actual cancer cells or even death itself. Yes, death itself will die, and life will remain!