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Songshi QuanSave the Whale?
August 26th 2008 04:48
Hoopla over a baby whale
At the risk of upsetting the tender sensibilities of some, I just cannot sit back and allow such an obscene circus of misplaced priorities to past by without comment.
It is time, high time, that society in this country and likely others as well got a wake up call. And when you as a collective society actually wake up, please be my guest and take a long hard look at yourselves in the mirror. Actually, better yet, let me be your mirror and let me tell you what I see…
Facts: A baby whale was apparently abandoned by it’s mother and found its way to a human settlement whereby it promptly attached itself to the hull of a luxury sailing vessel that it mistook to be it’s mother. The baby whale was clearly distressed, clearly hungry and just as clearly going to die of starvation if it did not get 11 months or so of mother’s milk.
Being humanitarian and a nation obsessed with our ‘self-proclaimed’ title of “Saviour to all Whales” we immediately embarked on a rescue plan, or in this case, several plans as each proceeding plan failed to work.
Guiding it out to sea was a nice touch. In the hopes that it might meet up with some of its brethren and be adopted by another female or possibly it’s own mother was a great idea. When that failed, the options began to dry up, or did they? No, options were still coming in thick and fast and the cost of those options was just as quickly escalating to ridiculous heights.
In the perspective of your mirror: This is where your mirror starts to look at you with a quizzically raised eyebrow. The fact that you want to save this baby whale is commendable. Oh, hang on, it’s commendable if this is your first instinct when it comes to saving anything or anyone in distress. Is it?
Have you ever walked past a homeless person on the streets? Ever strode by a beggar without batting an eyelid? I can almost hear you now, protesting how that is different; those are human beings with the capability to help themselves right? Well, potentially yes, but I can guarantee you that you could save a hundred homeless people or perhaps more with the money you were prepared to have spent on saving a baby whale abandoned by it’s own mother.
In nature, thousands of animals, on land and in the sea die at the hands of predators, through sickness or disease or even by happenstance. It is the natural order of things. It is Darwinism, survival of the fittest; it is the way nature has been since long before humans walked the surface of the planet. It is not sad the baby whale was going to starve to death, it is sad that we feel it is worth any cost to support and save this whale so it may one day be returned to the wild all the while we slaughter our fellow humans by the hundreds in daily wars around the globe daily. We see whole nations living in the most appalling conditions in 3rd world countries and we see people who need our help and support around us in our own cities and towns, yet we do nothing to highlight their plight and save them so they may be returned to the wilds of our civilisation.
You hear some people lament, “Nature is cruel”… I beg to differ. Nature is consistent; it is humanity that is cruel in our fickleness, our obsession with bandwagon causes instigated by a media industry grown narcissistic with its power and influence over the weak-willed and weak-minded peasantry in suburbia.
Save the whale? Nay, save what is left of our humanity first please.
Woof.
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