A digest for conscious living
This is the reality BP will try to mask.
It saddens me to welcome you to my blog with my very first posting concerning the unfolding environmental tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, but an event of this magnitude happens once in a blue moon. This oil spilling has been going on since April now, with no end in sight, and the mounting tensions have already caused some acrimony and ill will towards BP. I have even heard stories of gas station employees being harassed by upset individuals. Some poor sod working at a gas station has nothing to do with this tragedy, at least not in any direct way.
So for a change, I would like to take time to thank BP, or more exactly the men and women of BP, for putting themselves in the line of fire to help us dismantle the last bastions of human servitude and separation. You may wonder what I am referring to… What I have in mind here is the MO of oil giants to manufacture a scarcity of energy which they attempt to rein in, creating huge profit and causing a rift in the populations of the world, between the haves and the have nots. This latest calamity brought upon us courtesy of BP, Halliburton, Transocean, and whatever cabal is behind this, will do great service to humanity, eventually….
By defiling our biosphere so badly, destroying lives in and outside the ocean, ruining ways of life and causing untold hardship, that mankind will finally come together in agreement and ditch petroleum that much sooner.
Also, thank you BP, for your clumsy and transparent handling of this tragedy, which reeks of rotten corporatism. As does the possibility that all this could have been avoided without the greedy, irresponsible cost cutting in your operations.
All this will piss people off just a bit more, and wake up a few million more of us who are still sleepwalking; people who will help usher in the era of your irrelevance to humanity. I am only sad that it has to happen at such a cost. But a shock is what was needed to shake us out of our complacency. Shock and sadness of all kinds, like this heartbreaking news piece. And I am sure there is much more to come. Certainly I am not alone in seeing the karmic irony of the largest most devastating oil spill and ecological catastrophe taking place right in the lap of the nation with the largest most wanton appetite for energy. A nation that, a decade or so ago, was consuming half of the world’s oil production by itself. A nation unafraid to cause great suffering in the way of war, stifling of developing nations, and environmental destruction to control cheap access to oil.
In the face of our inability to take this initiative sooner, I thank you, BP. You are the revolutionary we couldn’t be, and this time around you cut off your own head. You have defeated yourself with your own greed. No axes were dropped by repressed masses, no shots were fired. We were unable, unwilling to work off our oil addiction as a people and something drastic had to happen. This spectacular despoiling of the Earth will bring us together in a movement to rid ourselves of petrodollar powermongering, and BP deserves MVP recognition in this endgame.
I hope that no bodily harm comes to the employees of these corporations, as they likely will be the focus of much animosity in the coming times. We must remind ourselves that they played an important role in uniting mankind for a new age, and that someone had to play the ‘ugly’ part in this situation… We must remind ourselves that unless we see this silver lining in this otherwise horrid situation, we are more likely to tear each other apart than to forgive each other and come together. This is the only way we can make it now.
Raphael Protti