Give Your Parents and Teachers ONE MORE Chance
(But Just One More)
If you're not angry at your parents and teachers, you should be!
Pretty soon the pandas, wombats, and elephants will be extinct. Wombats! One of the cutest animals to exist in Earth's 4.2 billion years. Other animals, too. In fact, every other large mammal will go extinct – bears, wolves, foxes, tigers, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, koalas, red pandas, whales, dolphins. It's not just because of climate change. Even without climate change, humans are destroying forests, polluting rivers, and overpopulating the planet with more and more hungry humans, and their expanding cities, expanding slums, expanding sewers, expanding mines, expanding factories, expanding highways, expanding graveyards, and their expanding beer bellies.
As it is now, we're wiping out birds, wiping out forests, wiping out wetlands, wiping out bees, wiping out butterflies, wiping out frogs, wiping out large mammals, wiping out fish, wiping out sharks, and wiping out rivers. We're doing a lot of wiping. Remember this simple rhyme:
You can wipe your butt,
And you can wipe your nose,
But never wipe out the trees,
Or the birds and buffaloes!
So all your favorite animals (and many more) will soon be extinct – that is, IF we keep living the same way and acting in the same way. IF.
That's why you should be angry at your parents and teachers!
Let's start with teachers. You go every day to school, and teachers keep yelling at you to learn and to work hard, and how important polynomials are, or the periodic table of elements, or writing an essay (jeez, I hate essays!) They make such a big deal about your attendance, about your grades, and about tests. They keep repeating in their annoying voices how you need to learn to get a job and make money.
But it's all a big scam! Any half-witted antelope mite can understand that stopping climate change is a lot more important than what kind of job you might end up with. (No offense to mites.) I mean, what good is getting a job if summer temperatures are reaching 120F (49C) and the roads are melting, your car tires are melting, the electric grid is overloaded and shuts down because everyone's blasting their A/C, and wildfires are surrounding your house? What good is a job when some heat-crazed Israeli general decides to launch a nuclear missile, igniting a nuclear winter, causing global crop failures, global famines, widespread wars, total economic meltdown, and inflation so high that you have to carry money in wheelbarrows (Like Germans had to do after World War I)?
Jobs are meaningless on a planet which cannot support life. Duh. Even a moldy corn kernel knows that. (No offense to corn.)
But there they are, your teachers, standing up there in front of the class everyday, parading around like a vegan cheesecake, like they're helping you out. Like they're doing you a favor and that you should thank them. No! You shouldn't! You should blame them. Instead of making it their life's purpose to fill kids with delusions, how about doing something to help out? They're supposed to be helping!
After all, we've known about climate change for more than one hundred years. A hundred years. It's not like it's breaking news.
In all that time, couldn't they get together with their other teacher buddies and occupy some airports or some highways? Or take apart a dam? Couldn't they dismantle some railroads? They couldn't organize a field trip for your class to dismantle some pipelines?
They could have at least once said, “There's no point in this school nonsense. Focus on stopping climate change. Focus on stopping the use of fossil fuels. Nothing else really matters.” Couldn't they just say that at least once?
Don't let them carry on each day with their “education” nonsense, especially their nonsense about false solutions, such as solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars, recycling, voting, protests, nuclear energy, and anything else that will make anyone money. Because if it's making someone money, it won't be a solution! And if it requires mining, factories, and fossil fuels to make, it's not a solution! The only thing that they (and you) should be focusing on is how to shut down the burning of fossil fuels as fast as possible. And then, how to nurture resilience, self-sufficiency, humility, and reverence for all forms of life. And how to live a simple life, with few needs, close to nature.
If they can't at least try to make school relevant and meaningful, then there's no point. Every minute you sit in class is another minute wasted.
Yes, be angry at them. Blame them. But give them one more chance to redeem themselves. Everyone deserves one more chance.
Tell them, “We're giving you ONE MORE chance!”
And while you're at it, blame your parents, too. What have they been doing all this time? Now, I'm not criticizing the many parents just struggling to make enough money, because being able to afford food and shelter is the first priority. My criticism is aimed at middle and upper-class families, and all the “professionals” who can afford to pay bail.
These professional parents are overseeing and supporting the whole system which is destroying life on the planet. “Professional” means careers such as doctors, lawyers, scientists, pharmacists, engineers, programmers, teachers, professors, politicians, consultants, judges, corporate executives, stock brokers, accountants, and government bureaucrats. They're managing the whole operation!
And don't let your parents guilt YOU, which is what they usually do. So let's role play.
They'll often say something like, “I work hard to feed you and buy nice things and take us on vacations to places where we get to stand on line with thousands of other tourists.” They use that guilt to try to either shut you up, or to make you do something ridiculous, like clean your room. Don't fall for it!
You can answer, “Thank you for your hard work, mom. I appreciate it. But couldn't you make a little less money and do something to help out? None of this matters if there are no more wombats. You're the one who should feel guilty, not me!”
Use guilt against them. Use it to get them off their asses. Use it until they do something.
Or, “You know, Dad, there are more important things than buying a big, expensive car. There are more important things than having a big house. There are more important things than owning multiple properties. There are more important things than buying a big TV, or an iPhone, or video games. There are more important things than mom's Botox injections. If you REALLY want to show me how much you love me, then do something effective to stop climate change and to stop the forests from being cut down!”
That's the key to using guilt. Make it about love. “If you really love me, you'll do whatever it takes to shut down civilization before it destroys all the forests and animals.”
But don't hate your parents. Blame them, yes. After all, they've gone their whole lives being fools, being greedy, and making it all worse. But don't hate them. Hate is a terrible emotion to have and rarely helpful in interpersonal relationships. Besides, humans are very, very easy to manipulate, distract, and control. Your parents were lied to and manipulated by their own parents, their schools, by governments, the media, and the entire society. So being turned into greedy fools is what you'd expect.
But give them a chance to make it up to you. “It's not too late, Mom and Dad. You can make it up to me. If you really love me, you'll do something meaningful about climate change. Also, I need some cash.”
Be angry at them and blame them until they feel a sufficient level of guilt, but continue to love them.
Remember, don't stop loving them. I love my mom, even though she never dismantled a missile silo or knocked down a cell phone tower (that I know of), and I loved my dad, even though he was a capitalist through and through, had a poster of Ronald Reagan on his wall, and purposely ran over my Che Guevara t-shirt with the lawnmower. So love your parents, but understand their limitations. Just like you wouldn't expect your dog to cook you dinner, your parents also have their limitations. You have your own limitations, too. But you still love your dog.
And that's what it's about. Love your parents, but give them one more chance to redeem themselves. It's never too late for them to make it up to you.
Yes, they've allowed the world to get to the awful state it currently is in. But as long as they're alive, they can still make it up to you and do something positive and effective.
It's not too late. Give them ONE MORE chance!
Pretty soon the pandas, wombats, and elephants will be extinct. Wombats! One of the cutest animals to exist in Earth's 4.2 billion years. Other animals, too. In fact, every other large mammal will go extinct – bears, wolves, foxes, tigers, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, koalas, red pandas, whales, dolphins. It's not just because of climate change. Even without climate change, humans are destroying forests, polluting rivers, and overpopulating the planet with more and more hungry humans, and their expanding cities, expanding slums, expanding sewers, expanding mines, expanding factories, expanding highways, expanding graveyards, and their expanding beer bellies.
As it is now, we're wiping out birds, wiping out forests, wiping out wetlands, wiping out bees, wiping out butterflies, wiping out frogs, wiping out large mammals, wiping out fish, wiping out sharks, and wiping out rivers. We're doing a lot of wiping. Remember this simple rhyme:
You can wipe your butt,
And you can wipe your nose,
But never wipe out the trees,
Or the birds and buffaloes!
So all your favorite animals (and many more) will soon be extinct – that is, IF we keep living the same way and acting in the same way. IF.
That's why you should be angry at your parents and teachers!
Let's start with teachers. You go every day to school, and teachers keep yelling at you to learn and to work hard, and how important polynomials are, or the periodic table of elements, or writing an essay (jeez, I hate essays!) They make such a big deal about your attendance, about your grades, and about tests. They keep repeating in their annoying voices how you need to learn to get a job and make money.
But it's all a big scam! Any half-witted antelope mite can understand that stopping climate change is a lot more important than what kind of job you might end up with. (No offense to mites.) I mean, what good is getting a job if summer temperatures are reaching 120F (49C) and the roads are melting, your car tires are melting, the electric grid is overloaded and shuts down because everyone's blasting their A/C, and wildfires are surrounding your house? What good is a job when some heat-crazed Israeli general decides to launch a nuclear missile, igniting a nuclear winter, causing global crop failures, global famines, widespread wars, total economic meltdown, and inflation so high that you have to carry money in wheelbarrows (Like Germans had to do after World War I)?
Jobs are meaningless on a planet which cannot support life. Duh. Even a moldy corn kernel knows that. (No offense to corn.)
But there they are, your teachers, standing up there in front of the class everyday, parading around like a vegan cheesecake, like they're helping you out. Like they're doing you a favor and that you should thank them. No! You shouldn't! You should blame them. Instead of making it their life's purpose to fill kids with delusions, how about doing something to help out? They're supposed to be helping!
After all, we've known about climate change for more than one hundred years. A hundred years. It's not like it's breaking news.
In all that time, couldn't they get together with their other teacher buddies and occupy some airports or some highways? Or take apart a dam? Couldn't they dismantle some railroads? They couldn't organize a field trip for your class to dismantle some pipelines?
They could have at least once said, “There's no point in this school nonsense. Focus on stopping climate change. Focus on stopping the use of fossil fuels. Nothing else really matters.” Couldn't they just say that at least once?
Don't let them carry on each day with their “education” nonsense, especially their nonsense about false solutions, such as solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars, recycling, voting, protests, nuclear energy, and anything else that will make anyone money. Because if it's making someone money, it won't be a solution! And if it requires mining, factories, and fossil fuels to make, it's not a solution! The only thing that they (and you) should be focusing on is how to shut down the burning of fossil fuels as fast as possible. And then, how to nurture resilience, self-sufficiency, humility, and reverence for all forms of life. And how to live a simple life, with few needs, close to nature.
If they can't at least try to make school relevant and meaningful, then there's no point. Every minute you sit in class is another minute wasted.
Yes, be angry at them. Blame them. But give them one more chance to redeem themselves. Everyone deserves one more chance.
Tell them, “We're giving you ONE MORE chance!”
And while you're at it, blame your parents, too. What have they been doing all this time? Now, I'm not criticizing the many parents just struggling to make enough money, because being able to afford food and shelter is the first priority. My criticism is aimed at middle and upper-class families, and all the “professionals” who can afford to pay bail.
These professional parents are overseeing and supporting the whole system which is destroying life on the planet. “Professional” means careers such as doctors, lawyers, scientists, pharmacists, engineers, programmers, teachers, professors, politicians, consultants, judges, corporate executives, stock brokers, accountants, and government bureaucrats. They're managing the whole operation!
And don't let your parents guilt YOU, which is what they usually do. So let's role play.
They'll often say something like, “I work hard to feed you and buy nice things and take us on vacations to places where we get to stand on line with thousands of other tourists.” They use that guilt to try to either shut you up, or to make you do something ridiculous, like clean your room. Don't fall for it!
You can answer, “Thank you for your hard work, mom. I appreciate it. But couldn't you make a little less money and do something to help out? None of this matters if there are no more wombats. You're the one who should feel guilty, not me!”
Use guilt against them. Use it to get them off their asses. Use it until they do something.
Or, “You know, Dad, there are more important things than buying a big, expensive car. There are more important things than having a big house. There are more important things than owning multiple properties. There are more important things than buying a big TV, or an iPhone, or video games. There are more important things than mom's Botox injections. If you REALLY want to show me how much you love me, then do something effective to stop climate change and to stop the forests from being cut down!”
That's the key to using guilt. Make it about love. “If you really love me, you'll do whatever it takes to shut down civilization before it destroys all the forests and animals.”
But don't hate your parents. Blame them, yes. After all, they've gone their whole lives being fools, being greedy, and making it all worse. But don't hate them. Hate is a terrible emotion to have and rarely helpful in interpersonal relationships. Besides, humans are very, very easy to manipulate, distract, and control. Your parents were lied to and manipulated by their own parents, their schools, by governments, the media, and the entire society. So being turned into greedy fools is what you'd expect.
But give them a chance to make it up to you. “It's not too late, Mom and Dad. You can make it up to me. If you really love me, you'll do something meaningful about climate change. Also, I need some cash.”
Be angry at them and blame them until they feel a sufficient level of guilt, but continue to love them.
Remember, don't stop loving them. I love my mom, even though she never dismantled a missile silo or knocked down a cell phone tower (that I know of), and I loved my dad, even though he was a capitalist through and through, had a poster of Ronald Reagan on his wall, and purposely ran over my Che Guevara t-shirt with the lawnmower. So love your parents, but understand their limitations. Just like you wouldn't expect your dog to cook you dinner, your parents also have their limitations. You have your own limitations, too. But you still love your dog.
And that's what it's about. Love your parents, but give them one more chance to redeem themselves. It's never too late for them to make it up to you.
Yes, they've allowed the world to get to the awful state it currently is in. But as long as they're alive, they can still make it up to you and do something positive and effective.
It's not too late. Give them ONE MORE chance!