Need to reset

I woke this morning jaded with the world; on my drive to work, I remembered that I wanted to discuss why some people want an apocalypse.

We think only of the short-term. We are happy to pollute, particularly if we don't see what we've dumped. We poison our land, water, and air. We refuse to see ourselves as part of the environment; some of us even refuse to see ourselves as part of a community. We entertain ourselves with movies that centre around torture, and don't see what's wrong with that.

And then, a bus passed in front of me with an advertisement for "Medical Aesthetics Education", which after a bit of searching turns out to mean "You're not pretty enough/You've gotten old and aren't as pretty as you were - let us tell you all the ways you are ugly, and how we can fix it."

I don't know which offended me more, the three words used or the sentiment...

All I do know that there is something quite wrong with our attitudes.

We poison the air,
we poison the water,
we poison the soil.

We claim to master the world,
we forget we are part of it.

We serve money,
we serve avarice,
we fill our souls with emptiness.

We see nature to be conquered,
we forget it gives us life.