damn, that was a yummy meal. if i lived there, it would be a race of going broke vs. tripling my weight, to death.

I think we should all just spend a little less money.

When you get right down to it, if I were Queen of the Earth I think I'd like to undo an awful lot of the so-called progress there is in the world. I don't actually want concrete and pavement as far as the eye can see. I don't want more road-kill. I don't want to continue literally decimating the species diversity. I can live without a large majority of the trappings of technology and entertainment and consumerism if you can give me a decent cabin in the woods. Now, I'm not saying I don't want that cabin to have the basic first-world amenities, but the price we pay for our current way of living is too high; some estimates are that 1st worlders need to get down to a quarter of their current resource usage. People don't notice the hidden costs, either ever, or at least until too late. Do I really need anything that is advertised on any of the billboards I see during my commute? There's entirely too many of us, and we do a really bad job of using the things around us, and we basically create nothing but crap. Tears well up when I think of how far away from Nature just about any Design is, and especially anything really commoditized. RIP just about anything fundamentally decent about your plague called Humanity.

You might think the life of a cat is all tummy rubs and catnip. C'est un mythe. Well, d'accord, it actually is all that (at least around here - we've shaped up the people pretty well) but one soon finds oneself growing tired with such low-brow past-times. The mind is in need of stimulation; the spirit ossifies when presented with only television and ever-the-same cat food. Even harassing the dog next door loses its attraction after a short while.

Nous désirons quelque chose... meaningful in this universe of consumption and machinery, of mock Sturm und Drang, of connectionless being papered over with marketing psychometrics. Help shape a manifesto to rescue the world in this new century and millenium; help us all reach towards a long-lived cultural heterosis; pause from your comparison internet shopping to consider what could be achieved if we would divest ourselves of Rhett Butler's cold shoulder; vote for something ethical for a change.

Now, time for a bon-bon.