What The Actual Fuck?

A friend posted an article on Facebook the other day, about scientists working on a plastic eating thing to help reduce landfill. I didn't read the article because before I had chance my brain went "What the actual fuck?" Don't get me wrong, I applaud the fact that science is trying to help solve the massive environmental problems facing our planet but it staggers me that we're so stupid as a species.

Imagine you have a lovely white dress. It is fresh and clean and perfect for the occasion. Now imagine you lay in the mud and roll around. Your pristine dress is now filthy, smelly and not fit to be used. You decide that you have a problem and go and invest your wages in a new white dress. The next week you wear the new dress. You see a cowpat. You lay down in it and roll around. The dress is ruined. You spend your money buying a new one. The following week you wear the new dress. You see a muddy puddle. You lay down.........at what point do you stop wasting your money on new dresses and simply decide to stop fucking rolling in crap??

It's the same principle here. Whilst we need to deal with the amazing about of shit we've done to this planet of ours, why do we keep doing the things that fuck it up? I'm pretty damn certain that no one in their right mind would buy a new dress every week just so they could roll in mud. They would simply not roll in mud. Yet as a species we continue to pollute our own planet, destroy trees and fields and lakes, dig holes and fill them up with rubbish and generally treat the place like a teenage boy treats his bedroom. We do this in the knowledge that we cannot go and buy a new planet. We do this in the knowledge that we are not just sowing the seeds of our own destruction but watering them and harvesting them too. We are simply too bloody lazy and too intent on pursuing own own pleasures to stop our wanton damage.

It's not just the environment that we're stupid about. Knowledge is a wonderful thing. 24 hour news, the internet, newspapers.....all these things can provide a wealth of information from the latest events in the world to the best restaurants to eat at in our home town. The thing is, these things only provide knowledge if we use them wisely otherwise it just gives us a load of old bollocks. Reading, researching and then making up our own minds is how we should do things but hey guess what? We're too bloody lazy to do that so we just believe everything we hear and read, especially, and this is key here, if it comes in the form of a meme on Facebook or if our cousins best mates sisters uncle said it.

And what about politics? Many many people spend vast amounts of time bemoaning the loss of our NHS, complaining about the appalling state of our railways, whinging about how the cost of living keeps rising and wages don't and so on. These are ordinary people. Not radicals, not raving lefty nutters, not activists. Just Susie who works in the hairdressers or Bob who does the local window cleaning round. They are horrified at the unfairness in society and how broken our country is. They know all these things are affected by our Government and our Politicians AND THEY CARRY ON VOTING FOR THE SAME PEOPLE ANYWAY. The very people who are fucking them over. Why? Because they're too sodding lazy and intent on pursuing their own pleasure to do anything about it.

It amazes me that a species that produces such genius, is also capable of behaving in such a mind numbingly, stupidly destructive way and not just to each other. Racism, sexism, discrimination of all types and violence whilst abhorrent don't surprise me, because essentially we are selfish but it is for that very reason, selfishness and self preservation, that means I can't understand the human beings ability to rush full pelt into self destruction. We all know what we're doing to ourselves on a global scale but we do it anyway, simply because we're too fucking lazy and intent on pursuing our own pleasures to change our behaviour. We have set ourselves above every other species on the planet, made ourselves the rulers of the world, all based on our so called superior intellect, yet you don't see any other species destroying itself just because it can't be bothered to do anything about it.

I look at us humans and feel justified in thinking "what the actual fuck?"