Posts from — May 2006

Global Warming and Narnia

by Flowers Bloom

By Flowers Bloom

I just finished watching the movie The Chronicles of Narnia, and I am appalled at the damage done by so few humans. It’s shocking to see the devastating effect that just four children bring to the world.

We have over six billion people inhabiting our Earth Mother, and it is no wonder that Gaia is rebelling with floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters at her disposal.

First we see Lucy enter Narnia, and meet a charming faun named Mr. Tumnus. He plays beautiful music for her, unaware of the threat that she and her siblings pose to his beautiful land. Then her brother meets with the Queen and very greedily demands tasty treats from her. In spite of his crude manner, she complies with his wishes.

Finally, all four Pevensie children make their way to Narnia. We see a wintery paradise transformed into a sub-tropical wasteland at an astonishing rate. I could not beleive the speed with which global warming occured just based on the mere presence of 4 children.

Imagine what sort of damage would be done by billions of humans, and their gas guzzling SUVs. I’m sure that global warming would render Narnia uninhabitable in just days.

Even still, people refuse to acknowledge the very real threat of global warming. In just a short time the rivers and lakes began to melt. Within days, there was no more snow or ice at all. Plants sprouted, and flowers bloomed, which all seems wonderful and pretty to those of us who are used to such things, but the inhabitants of Narnia must have felt very frightened by the sudden warming trend.

The children invade this foreign land, and depose it’s rightful ruler. What makes them so arrogant as to think that the people of Narnia do not like the way that they live? They look at this different and strange land, and decide that they can make it better. What makes them the judge of what is better?

I find it all very apalling, even as we struggle with our own debate about the effects of global warming. Perhaps, Remulak MoxArgon should take heed. If supposedly “innocent” children can wreak such havok, how can he possibly think he stands a chance against billions of Earth Mother raping humans?

I think that perhaps the most frightening thing of all was that after laying waste to the now desolate Narnia, the children go back through the wardrobe, and return to the very moment at which they had initially entered.

Do they think to consider the unmitigated disaster they have left behind in the once frozen and beautiful Narnia? Most likely not. The movie doesn’t address this serious issue. It’s typical of human nature to leave behind the mess, and take no personal responsibility.

But what of the creatures of Narnia? They are left to fend for themselves, their land transformed, and their ruler deposed. Do the Pevensies care about them? Do you?

May 31, 2006 22 Comments

Fighting for Freedom?

by Fiar

In this time, where we have been observing and remembering our fallen heroes, who have fought for freedom the world around, It’s important to remember that we have men and women fighting right now to defend freedom. In Iraq, we have our very own brothers and sisters, sons and daughters fighting to bring freedom to the Iraqi people.

I ask you, how has this improved your life. I mean, your life personally. You can’t tell me that it has. Freedom and democracy may seem a high and lofty goal. It may seem to be a noble cause, but it doesn’t really make my life better.

That’s why I think what we need is a War for Oil. Oil is tangible. I can see the benefit of invading foreign nations to steal their oil every time I fill up at the pump.

Many people are tired of this war. They don’t feel the fruits of it. They don’t see any improvement in their own lives, and why should they? Freedom is abstract. Democracy is an ideal, not a natural resource. It’s measured in foreign elections, and foreign quality of life. But what of our quality of life?

I think it’s time that we re-energized the war effort. All we need to do is shift the focus from a War on Terror, which has the goal of spreading democracy, and replace it with a War for Oil. People will feel the benefit of our efforts everytime they fill up the tank, at $0.12 per gallon.

We’ve seen the results of bringing freedom to nations before, and we know just what a failure that has been. It didn’t work in Germany, and I think we can all agree that it has been a disasterous experiment in Japan. Do you think GM, anfd Ford would be in financial straits if we hadn’t supported the democracy building in those countries? Imagine an auto industry without Honda, Nissan, and Toyota. An auto industry without Volkswagen and BMW. I don’t even know what to think of Daimler-Chrystler. The Germans may have lost on the battlefield, but they’ve won the battle of dollars.

Would you buy a car produced by some non-prosperous third world nation. Of course not, and if we had left Germany and Japan to the wolves, that’s what they would be, not competitive industrialized nations, stealing business from domestic auto makers. So while Democracy may seem noble, it is an policy wrought with idealistic hubris, and absent the realpolitik of the way the world really works.

Let’s just thik about some of the places that we could steal oil from:

Iraq. We already have troops on the ground, and they don’t want Democracy anyway. They want the stability that can only be found by an iron-fisted dictatorship. It should be easy pickin’s to topple the young government there. We’ll just say, “Sorry about the whole elections thing. We really just need oil.”
Iran.
Venezuela.
Canada.

France. I don’t know if they have oil, but invading them just seems like a good idea, and as history has proven repeatedly, easy to do.

That’s just a short list. We’ll work out where to go from there, bt it’s a start. Tell the world you support a War for Oil. Don’t jopin the military though. Support for a war that we are unwilling to fight ourelves is what being a Chickenhawk is all about.