Earth Takes Vow of Silence, Last Words, "Chimps Are on Their Own"
“So when did they pull all of their first stringers?” I voiced with a complete and utter lack of any type of tonal change. Wait for it… His eyes smash shut, deep breath, cheeks beginning to flush and… “It’s only the first half! Steelers are getting all the calls!” I wait in silence as he recovers, shallow breathing, hands unclench and the pale color of calm returns to Dean’s face.
Football is a beer sport, so when I brought over a few of my best field blends from various Santa Cruz Mountain wineries, I knew I was testing fate. Even tempting the gods of the gridiron to remove my visitor pass and toss me out of the football world I knew nothing of.
“Wine, who brings wine to a football party?” Was I meant to answer the question or wait for the other apes to grunt their best Morse code chimp response? The following silence was beautiful, almost angelic in its serenity, but also short-lived. “Someone who knows nothing about contact sports and the world of man, someone like Iain.”
That’s right I think to myself, someone like Iain. The only Steelers fan in the room, halftime score Steelers 24 Jets 3, and then I get hit with a big chunk of knowledge that shocks me into a cerebral silence. It came from Nate, who stoically listened to us bantering, sunk into a cloud-like Lazy Boy recliner without any real chance of escape.
I had just finished crawling out from under a verbal landslide that started when Dean had claimed that my Blog of Sustainable Chaos was “not only worthless, but meaningless, because the average person only cares about themselves, only cares about what directly influences their bubble.”
I was about to ‘agree’ a little, maybe? When Nate states from his fluffy Man Throne, “the earth does not care, she has given the apes a chance to prove their worth. If we destroy ourselves, she shrugs, rebuilds over a few million years and moves on.”
There is the reality. We should rename the campaign slogan from “Save the Planet” to “Save Ourselves.” If, as sentient Ground Chimps, we choose not to make the necessary changes in our lifestyles towards sustainable habits to “Save the Earth,” maybe we will do it to “Save the Humans?”
Knowledge by Nate, think on it.
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