November - December 2009
Back to nature does not mean back on trees. That in itself is laying flowers on the grave. Somewhere inside myself I can feel how the power of nature disappeared and what I can see around me is just a swarming on the dead body. The plate tectonics movements and the great wind are just symptoms accompanying the crumbling and decay of the body tormented by a malignant exuberance. Cancer grows through the body of the host, destroys its vital organs and kills it eventually. Then the cancer dies with its host. That reflects the stupidity of cancer. It is similar to man, who despite that thinks he is the most reasonable of all. Humanity - a self-centred mind in an apathetically perceiving head of a sateless global body. A monster shitting below itself and all over. Hopefully you are afraid at last to call this the pinnacle of progress. The food is running short and you should start thinking about how to eat your own shit. Everything has been eaten because you have eaten more than you needed to and what has not been eaten you destroyed so that no-one got it cheaper or for free. Stop being pathetic over yourself at last. We have had so much time to put things right. There is nothing to be proud of...even that sounds akward. Back to nature is not a solution. It is a call to leave. To dying with nature.
Ivan Mečl 2009
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