We are powerful and brave.
We are angry, afraid and greedy. We always want more than we have. We are ingenious.
We have invented so many superb ways to show our strength, to assuage our fear, to give vent to our anger, to take what we want.
We will hit you with rocks. We will maim you with our sword and our battleaxe. We will blow holes in your soft flesh with our blunderbus, our musket, our carbine, our pistol, our machine gun, and the life will drain from your mortal body, while we take what we want from you, your family, your home.
We will blow up your buildings, your public places, your railroad tracks, your factories, your electrical generating facilities, your airports, your roads, the very houses you dwell in.
We will organize ourselves into huge armies, and these armies will be the grandest achievements, hundreds of thousands of us in uniforms, training, planning, arming. We will tell ourselves, and you, that we only want to protect ourselves. But in our fear, our anger, our greed and our hatred, we will move to dominate you, to subjugate you, to take your treasures.
Failing that, we will kill you. We will take you in our hands and we will blacken your mind, stop your heart, wring the blood out of you, and all your kind. We will scorch the earth you live on. It is within our power. It is within our hearts.
No one of us can remember when this started. We have always done this, even before we invented our excellent weapons. Every day we teach our children to be ready for this. The marching, the taking, the killing. We do this to our children.
There is no place on earth left to hide.
This is my memorial to all of them who died. To all who killed. To all who are dying and killing even right now, as I think these thoughts. I weep for you and myself, and all who will come after us to continue the carnage. Bring glory on us. Bring your wrath and your fire. Bring peace through devastation. Bring it to every town, to every street, to every home, and we shall have peace, and our heroes at last may rest.
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Joe Frank has made an eloquent audio statement on this subject.
You can listen to it by clicking here.
we’re really just like ants, only less efficient: both ants and humans practise slavery, agriculture, unceasing communication back and forth — and WARFARE.
L – OK, I forgive the ants. The little copycat bastards.
I just want you to know that I agree with you. On all things. I agree. Yes. Yes, I do.
SJ – I hope you realize you are in a very small minority…
Hi Larry, what a great thing to do with this your creative space. Thanks for posting this.
Sorry for my late response. I wanted to comment earlier but I was busy guarding my stuff, trying to get more, blaming others for making me misbehave and justifying my need for superiority in the name of my unborn children … oh, I was also trying to get laid.
Thanks, Larry. It’s always a pleasure to read your words.