Is Sacrificing Virgins a Thing of the Past?

How *we* change ...the climate

We just lived through a stupid exercise in futility with Covid guidelines, masks, tests, isolation, shut downs, lockdowns, social distancing, staying indoors, vaccines and vaccine passports all based on “expert” assurances that this was the one and only way to end a pandemic. Any protests, contrary expert suggestions, even the sharing of evidenced based research was summarily banned from every major social media platform and even wiped from some search engines. All of it and all the ongoing destruction of society from it was for NOTHING.

So, forgive me when I ask, will eating bugs actually change the weather?

Eddie Izzard did this amazing stand up performance called, “Dressed To Kill” in which he pantomimes (which he does better than anyone- and in heels) the unarmed English fighting off the well-armed Germans in WWII with the tasty, frozen contents of an ice cream van because it was all they had.

Are we just chucking Orange Fruities and Zooms at a force we can never win?

Perhaps the climate is changing. Has anyone stopped to ask if that’s necessarily a bad thing or if maybe it’s supposed to change? In our blind insistence that the climate changing is necessarily destructive to the planet, I give you fall and winter. Two seasons every year, things seem to decay, food doesn’t grow, all so they can come back again, stronger for weathering the harsh seasons. Should we eat bugs to stop that, too?

Some people find it uncomfortably cool and less than aesthetically pleasing. Should we appease them by trying to stop the seasons from changing? Should we wrap the earth in a plastic greenhouse bubble to keep it green year round? Seems someone tried a biosphere already. Remind me. How did that pan out, again?

Everything in life must change. Everything must change.

When I hear we need to stop farting and farming and breathing and drinking water or watering our plants in order to stop “the next thing” or to take a fertility suppressing vaccine for girls and a heart stopping vaccine for boys… I am eerily reminded of how civilizations of the distant past would try to appease the gods when they couldn’t control some aspect of nature. When food and water supplies seemed scarce, they’d chuck fertile, young girls (aka virgins/breeders) into a pit of fire or an “angry” volcano to maintain the comfortable status quo of the elders. They also, coincidentally held death matches for the strongest, young men (aka potential usurpers) having them run across a field whilst catapulting boulders at them. Child ritual sacrifice was also not out of the question to increase their “magical” powers.

But did any of it actually work?

Last I checked, some of these ancient civilizations all unanimously and mysteriously disappeared. Did the aliens take them away for good deeds, wipe them out for their dubious practices or stick with me, did the elders destroy every potential breeder of their population to secure their own power and keep their bellies full only to die as the last of their own lineage?

Will eating bugs save the planet?

There’s no evidence that it will.

Will eating meat destroy the planet?

There’s no evidence it ever has.

It might just be that some fat, old cats sitting on a thrown have decided their lives might be less comfortable and their reigns might be cut short if the next generation lives their healthiest lives. And actually, that’s how it is supposed to be. The young become the old and replace them knowing they will eventually be replaced. It must be this way. The climate of old rulers must be changed and replaced by new leaders. Otherwise, the real ending of humanity will be these old farts, not ours.