One Day

I have said many times that with every attempt man makes at improving this world, he only hastens its destruction.  Our buildings, roads, dams, concrete, the very production methods of growth and expansion… all in the name of commerce and progress.  Perhaps we should look at mankind as what it really is, pestilence.  There is no rudimentary difference between humans and the Spanish moss that adorns the Oaks of my home in Natchez, Mississippi.  Ambitious, beautiful, and even inspiringly romantic as it may seem, the moss is a parasite.  There is a unambiguous parallel between this and society.  We are no different.  We are parasites, unapologetically devouring the resources of the very organism that gives us life.  One day this commerce and progress, all good things for few, will destroy the privileges for future generations of many.