Time is a tyrant, as the saying goes. There’s an exhibition at a nearby library called “World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration“. Ah, humanity! Just think of what humankind has accomplished in that time. We invented fire. Which led to cooked meat after a hunt. Then we opened a gazillion restaurants around the world, where humans can drop in and order that fire enhanced food, simply at the cost of parting with some form of currency. The restaurant kitchen cooks it, and it is brought out to the human customer, sans loin cloth and caveman cudgel, who eats it. The restaurant does the cleanup. How’s that for human progress?!

This culinary advance has allowed some humans to approach food as a “eat to live” or “live to eat” mentality. We humans thus are far superior to the animal kingdom, where it’s hunt for food, find it, kill it, eat it raw, rinse and repeat. Forever limited to that do or die approach to survival. Occasionally, a human becomes the wild beast’s dinner, which implies that one must be very lacking in judgment for that to happen.

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Then we invented the atomic bomb, and decided (the USA version of “we” humanity) drop two atomic bombs on Japan to end World War Two. That’s right the second world war. Oh, sure there were many wars before the Second WW, but the atomic bomb was not available for any of the others before it. That, dear reader, is real human progress. And now, Japan makes the most affordable and reliable cars in the world. Go figure. And Shushi is quite popular in the U.S. Ironically, Shushi does not require much fire to prepare. Raw fish, rice, seaweed. And now Japan, as with all other countries of world are united in what Mad Magazine calls one big global Love Fest. Okay. Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but we humans do have a whole lotta love in our DNA: humans just love to…well…as with all the wars and then creating an atomic bomb…love to kill one another. We invented war. Had to! It came about as a cause/effect matter after we created “territories”.  That’s when killing became wild and crazy. We invented reasons to want to kill one another: objections to skin color, sexual preferences, cultural variations, and biggest of all whose invisible entity in the sky is the most righteous. We invented righteousness. You can count on wars being perpetual as much as one can count on shitty bosses, lousy pay, loud neighbors, overpriced pretentious restaurants with shitty food. We invented supermarkets (huge buildings packed with life-shortening processed foods, and e-coli-carrying fruits and vegetables). We invented irony. Sure. All the food warehouses here and there while about a billion of world’s population is likely half-to-completely starved. Which leads to conflict. And killing. Yes, we invented irony, that’s for sure. We invented “manufactured” irony. That is, one person is having that T-bone steak, while another is dumpster diving, all the while there being enough food for everyone if we just had better distribution/sharing of such. But we invented greed. So forget that “sharing” bullshit.

250,000 years! Not sure who invented humanity but whatever caused it resulted in a tragic occurrence (see last paragraph). But for most of those 250,000 cycles of the earth rotating around the sun (well, that is once science proved the sun was the center of the universe; before that, such assertions that Earth was not the center of all and everything, the human who asserted such would likely be killed for heresy). Ah. that same science that gave humanity atomic weapons helped save many an astronomer. Again, we invented irony. With all this conflict and killing the human race had to find ways to relax. Thus some brave humans tried eating things that might nourish them, or possibly make them very relaxed, or maybe kill the consumer of such. We invented trial and error. Of course. Not everyone likes Sushi, okay? But with such bold experimentation we now have Marijuana dispensaries popping up like, well, like poppies, another part of Nature that packs a bigger punch than weed, but the MJ plant has been proven (by science!) to be only psychologically addicting, not physiologically. We invented pain killers. Of course. Pain may be our bodies trying to warn of something being amiss, but the pain killer, especially our invention called opioids, can mask almost any pain. We invented unnecessary pain. Again, see above.  We invented powerhouse pain killers that–irony!–in many cases kills the consumer of such. Go figure. Supply and demand. We invented the profit motive. Of course we did. If there’s isn’t a buck to be made on something, what good is that something? No matter if it’s housing, food, healthcare or education. We invented the catch-phrase “Show me the money!”

Hey, there may be a lot wrong with what humanity has done to itself for a quarter of a billion years, but we try to make the best of what we have made so wrong. Kinda ironic? Again. But if you are able to access this blog post, then you must be in decent shape per housing, food, healthcare, education, or maybe even driving a Japanese car (so affordable, so reliable, and so…what else?, IRONIC). Then again , you might be homeless, pushing a grocery cart (we had to invent that cart per those supermarkets, right? So ironic how handy they are for the homeless, no?) loaded with rags and broken umbrellas, and cardboard. Yeah, we invented libraries. And yes, even the homeless can come in and read about history, or just snooze or maybe sit down at a computer and post their own stories about sex, drugs and alcohol. Oh boy, we HAD to invent booze, beer and wine. You know, to wash down those pills. To take our mind off of what we humans are capable of doing to one another.

Oh, and yesterday was the 79th anniversary of the first of those two A-bombs dropped on Japan. Two days from now is the 79th anniversary of the second bomb. There is a consensus, of sorts, that the next World War with be a nuclear version. If that’s the case. this library will not have any future “Human Migration” exhibits, ya think? Just try not to worry and try not to kill anyone unless he’/she has it coming, and eat, drink and be delusional. Remember, we also invented The Matrix. Hint: take the blue pill.