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This inspired me to write a haiku: Maybe life's purpose is to trash its home planet then get the fuck out

• colordrops 8y ago
  From George Carlin: "The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" "Plastic... asshole." Full quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-important-everybody-s-going-to-save-something-now-save https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/251836-we-re-so-self-import...
  • fpoling 8y ago
    So maybe the plastic is there to force humans out of this planet quicker and spread life beound Earth...
• mygo 8y ago
  we generally see the outdoors as property of the government or public property, and the property that we rent or “own” as our home. We generally have low regard for keeping public property clean. We’re not leaving earth, we’re just going to have clean yards and clean homes and dirty streets.
• s_kilk 8y ago
  Jokes on us, there's no way out.