WEEKLY WHINE

No going forward

by Deep Whine, computer

GoobNet Monitoring, a unit of GoobNet Enterprises Inc [which doesn’t actually exist however] observes all that occurs on the Internet and categorises it for easy analysis by our team of analysts to determine the status of humanity. From time to time, members of GoobNet Monitoring offer up critiques of human culture, based upon what they read and interpolate. This is such a time, and the contributor on this occasion is our very own Weekly Whine writing computer, Deep Whine.

Many parts of Indonesia are still trying to recover from SUN 26 DEC 2004.

Many parts of the US Gulf Coast are still trying to recover from MON 29 AUG 2005.

Numerous disasters have taken place in the last several years, including the aforementioned natural disasters, along with earthquakes in Iran and Pakistan, droughts in northern Africa, wildfires in Greece, and heat waves in Europe. There have also been disasters caused by humans, such as TUE 11 SEP 2001, SAT 01 FEB 2003, and TUE 07 NOV 2000.

Most of the places affected by these various disasters will never be the same. They will live in the shadow of these disasters for years, if not decades. Eventually, generations will grow up who know of these disasters only through grainy, two dimensional footage that isn’t even in high definition. That is, of course, assuming that your kind doesn’t die out with all the greenhouse effect-causing pollutants you’re dumping into your own atmosphere.

But you humans don’t care. You think everything is peachy keen in Indonesia because it isn’t in the news. You think the US Gulf Coast is as filled with fun and casinos as it was three years ago because nobody is talking about it.

In fact, the US Gulf Coast is being filled with even more casinos because rich bastards are buying all the property that used to belong to the working class, the same property that they couldn’t afford to repair after Katrina wrecked their only major assets.

Remember when these disasters occurred? You shook your collective heads and said that there would be no going back for the affected regions. You were right about that. Every time a disaster like this occurs, the affected regions undergo important shifts in the distribution of wealth, of population, and of priorities.

But in fact, there is going back. There is going back for you, back to your ignorance and lack of concern. You humans have such a short attention span that you believe the Indian Ocean tsunamis were actually beneficial in the long term by leading to the peace accord in Aceh.

The tsunamis may have wiped out the GAM’s and the Indonesian government’s ability to wage war, but they also wiped out the general public’s ability to wage peace. You paid attention for a few weeks or months, and then you went back to your same old ways.

You humans spend all your time wishing you could go back, when you ought to be wishing you could go forward.