What $10,990 bought in 1955....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

73. It's interesting that most other animals understand instinctively

that it's not a good idea to shit in their own nests. Seems like a lot of members of the Homo sapiens species have forgotten this fundamental principle, or have chosen to ignore it because it interferes with their personal desires: I want a big, fancy house and I can afford it, so fuck the woods and the wetlands; fuck the environment; I'll burn as much fuel as I want because I can and I want to. Too bad if that makes other people's lives less pleasant or healthy.

But, of course, human activity being what it is and having the effects it does, when you shit in your own nest you are also shitting in mine, and everybody else's. So yes, I do take issue with the Randian-objectivist-libertarian notion of doing whatever you want and to hell with everyone else.

Eventually, of course, it will bite them in the butt as well. Dirty air and water and depleted resources hurts everyone, even the 1%-ers who can afford the resource-sucking mansions.