rkidd:

Lend me your ears! Give me your wisdom! Grant me your attention! Tell me your thoughts, and I will listen. For I am a greedy religious figure, just like every religious figure. Just like every religious practitioner. Just like Every Christian, every Muslim, every Wiccan, every Discordian. Just like all of us.

All humanity is selfish, but that is not my Meaning. No, we have a special form of Greed, that has encompassed the globe of late, and it’s Really Quite Annoying: ours is a greed of Modern Consumerism! Of Rampant Individualism, with only floating signs and symbols exchanged between us, like a floating Dollar in the market. Like oil floating on the sea, we stick together, but not in a very good way. A lot of the time it gets messy and animals end up dying.

We often mistake this for the Truth of Humanity - that we are inherently Greedy, we always have been. That may be so, but not like this. There was no God nor Goddess who did this to you. It was us! Be not blind to the Iron Bars of consumerism. We are trapped, imprisoned in this way of thinking. We all share this need to be distinguished, to be defined apart.

And there is no escape, make no mistake. Much like Australia, we’ve done lovely things with the place. We’ve carved out a rather nice little home inside these confines. Nonetheless we are trapped, and remembering this won’t get us onto the Bounty for freer seas.

All this may be so, yet there is Hope! Face yourselves, your stubbornly selfish selves, embrace this truthiness and make fun of it. Make it strange. Make it foreign. For it is an unnatural oddity, a mutation - yes, a nifty one, just as webbed feet are - but overall one that needs opposition.

My People! Pick up your spoons! Wield your toothbrushes! Chip away at these walls! For perhaps we cannot escape ourselves, but one day, somewhere, people will start to break through. And that will be enough for now.