Our road to extinction. Charles Bukowski discusses how the current state of society is an indication of where we are heading. Many choose to ignore or tone down the issues because it’s the easier thing to do. Well, it’s not the right thing to do. It would scare many to say the extinction of the human race is inevitable, but it’s true.
Bukowski isn’t making too far of a stretch when he says that eventually there will be nothing. Half of the events listed have already been happening. There is corruption everywhere in politics. Health care and the legal system benefit people with money the most. We are distracted by the Kardashians or the Lohans everyday. What are we really in control of anymore? What do we really own? The truth is the only things we do own are the most trivial objects. Even if you’re done making payments on your house, the government can still take it away. All they have to do is pay you compensation based on a price they create.
Yes, we are the most high thinking species on the planet, but that doesn’t make us exempt from extinction. It just means that it’s probably going to be done by us rather than another animal. It’s a very pessimistic view of humanity. I would LOVE to believe that if there were some sort of disaster, people would come together and thrive again. But I highly doubt it. The last line is very poignant to me: “The sun still hidden there Awaiting the next chapter.” We make up so little of the Earth’s history. We are just one chapter. When we are gone, we will be replaced by other life, and it will all happen again.
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