It is quite challenging living with the philosophy that no matter what, there is nothing wrong. Especially in the DRC. I felt like I had moved to hell, until I said that out loud to a religious chick who gave me her in-the-bible interpretation of why I must eat meat after I had told her that I could be vegetarian.
In the Congo they eat cat, and monkey, and flying ants and anything that can be considered food will be food. The religious chick was offended that they eat cat, telling me this while gorging on foie gras. I have already bitched about the miners and missionaries, and in my struggle to see the good here in this devastated poor land I saw a man snap a puppy’s neck to secure future roadside sales.
Verbalising how this is hell for me, made me realize that it is only because here I can see it. I don’t see the pig killed for my bacon. I don’t see the cow suffering for my milk. I see neatly packed shelves of beauty products I don’t see bunnies in cages being tortured, I just read on the bottle that it will burn if put it in my eyes.
How do you tell someone who collects flying ants for food to feed a cat as a pet?
As for the rest of the world outside of the Congo, (the middle of the world). We have ISIS, xenophobia, black-lives-not-mattering, planes crashing and ships sinking, which we think is wrong, right? Labelled as wrong we find someone to blame and we punish the perpetrator to life in prison. Then we have blizzards, landslides, floods, volcanoes erupting and earth quakes of equal if not greater destruction, which we think is wrong, right? Are either really wrong though? Is one really worse than the other?
Is eating cat wrong, is it any more wrong than smacking a kitten when it annoys you? Eating beef, chicken, fish, milk or any of those foods purports a much larger, much crueller and far worse system that we not only accept but actively promote every single day. So why is it hell to see people deep fry cat, it isn’t, just like it is not hell to see a lion eat a kudu.
Our mass produced mass producing systems of systematic mass torture, how wrong is that, and how acceptable is that system?
So here on this perfect planet everything exists in equal proportion. Day and night. Clouds and stars. Heaven and hell. As we fuck with the balance and create imbalance, somewhere somehow the world will balance itself. Natural disaster: human disaster. Disaster is nature’s culling process. The same process we implement when we create a system with no natural predators.
Will there ever come a time where we implement a system based on Mother Nature? Will we ever see how well the natural system works? Or is our fucked up system just simply part of the perfect natural system? The grand original design.
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