Husbandry

Yesterday, I deliberately chose a trashy vehicle like Lake Placid (99) so that I could ballyhoo it. What I really wanted to do was stop worrying about corroding the Quantum further and take a hot shower, springing a leak in Frank's former studio below me. Nelson is in it now, but I didn't. The shower stall is always dangerous; this chair always more difficult, so I carried a barbell in my chest while the Jaws reborn crocodile subverted expectations in a poorly generated computer graphic, and drowned a half ton grizzly. Other than that, though, the dialogue wasn't that bad, and it was really taking aim at the voracious fanaticism of humanity's environmental conscience. Betty White, by inference, is the super predator, once removed. That link might have been slightly sharper, perhaps, but Bill Pullman has the conspiratorial expression down, which makes him useful in these send ups, Platt was the funk, and Gleeson really doesn't like trophy hunting. What no audience really looks at too closely, unless they are a PETA zealot, is the industrialization of apex species. I am not a huge fan of the crocodilan family. My totem is the feline, and human extermination of these distresses. A farmer in Florida trying to save a sick gator is easy to mark as extraordinary, until we take stock of our own veterinary expenses. Clinical breeding and killing of hatchlings for export to China is no different than the mass slaughter of pigs, poultry, and cattle, but evolutionary nullification will invariably be the end result of all this, no matter how many genetic experts we manufacture who learn how to "imitate" ecosystems.

Does spastic have a solution? Yes. End medical treatment once biological viability goes awry. Terminate the disabled, even those with significant intellectual function, and set up a population control agency comprised of authorities according to which entities are the most stable and powerful, be it corporate or some vestige of nation-state. I personally do not think national identity is sustainable, though I grant China and Japan may hold out longer, because their norms predate western civilization.

I can poke a little fun of myself, and this mindset contravenes libertarian individualism, but that is already a foregone conclusion. I am serious that humanity needs to start looking at this in a larger context, now. We're a little egg in an "arm" of a big dust spiral, probably as rare, and unique, as creationists always believed. Space stations are all well and good, but incredibly difficult, and this won't be my problem, but what of my sister's great grandchildren, hmm?