I Am an Evil White Man [View all]

[Nocturnowl]

I couldn't sleep, so I watched an HBO doc on the Anthropocene. Tears were running down my cheeks by the end of the film, but my hands were also clenched into fists, as my entire body was thrumming with rage!

Humans are the most destructive fucking species ever to exist on this planet! Male humans are the worst of the worst! And white males are the very worst of the worst of the worst!

All the blameless species we've slaughtered! All the species we will slaughter! All the poorest people who will die because of our greed, our arrogance, our unearned sense of entitlement, and our Oh-so-fucking-superior view of other humans who have the unmitigated GALL to not look like us!

I have never drilled oil, fracked ground, gone on safaris to murder endangered species, cut down and/or burned forests, but neither have I tried to stop it! Like most white men, I've been perfectly content just to, as the saying has it, "go along to get along." And of course, I've used a shit-ton of carbon-based products to achieve that "comfortable American lifestyle," rammed my throat as a child but which I was only too happy to swallow, including, of course, the four-wheel carbon-emitting FACTORY that is the Average American Automobile!

And that's not even mentioning the three carbon-consuming-and-emitting humans my wife and I added to the overpopulation of Earth while we were together!

Think I'm being overly dramatic, do you? Think I've bolded, italicized, and underlined too many times in this post? Well fuck that! The truth is that, had I written it the way I felt (and still feel) about it, THE WHOLE GODDAMN THING WOULD HAVE BEEN IN CAPS!!!