“We are the only species who pays to live on planet earth.” – someone’s Facebook post with a picture of the earth

That is a crazy concept so I reposted it.  I wanted people to think I was the one who made it, or at least that I am hip enough to post cool thought provoking pictures with statements on my wall.

Holiday’s like Memorial Day get me thinking about this.  Not that people don’t care about Veterans, but people care more about getting a day off of work and eating hunks of meat from a grill.

Why do we pay to live here? If we all took care of our own basic needs, we wouldn’t need to. If we could build shelter, makes some clothes, farm, figure out how to find water that doesn’t cause explosive diarrhea, and cook, we wouldn’t need jobs or need pay people to do that stuff for us.

When we are living in post-apocalyptic times is there still going to be an economy or will we just be worrying about how to survive?  I bet there would still be art and entertainment though, because people would be bored from all the darkness and death.  But it would be probably be performance art and really obscure.  These artists would have a lot of pressure on them to be making a real statement.  Not like the “look out for the future and try and be a better person” kind of artistic expression, but more the “see I told you so” kind, which is far more sinister.  There would probably be someone selling falafels during these performances, but you wouldn’t pay him in money, but in favors and sometimes kisses.

So although it is awesome not to work today, it is also awesome to not be living during Armageddon.