By C C Pung
Justice of Peace
YET everyone I know spends hours everyday surfing this essential cesspool of modern living.
There’s so much crap that nothing is crappy anymore I’ve become an avid consumer of the crap.
There’s so much crap on social media and so many consumers that the algorithm inevitably shows that crap is gold.
I just watched a post about Thornley durian. Nature created durian with thorny skin.
The video showed that the fruit within is the same as the original cousin. I am still trying to understand what I feel.
‘Nature’ is addressed ‘mother’.
From mothers emerge new life.
But humankind has since time immemorial been trying to control and manipulate Nature.
We have surrogate ‘mothers’ ‘lending’ their bodies to carry babies for women who consider childbearing beyond them.
We build dams to tame floods. We cut trees, clear forests for wealth and habitation.
Yet we plant trees to try to appease Nature.
We are a paradox. China genetically modified grass and plants in trying to de-desert its massive Xinjiang desert.
So what about thorny durian? I thought that eating durian ‘naturally’ require me to deal with the thorns.
But nowadays there are services available to well-heeled people without them having to deal with the prickly ‘King of fruits’ at all.
These people should be out of work soon.
Nature bestows us with a faculty to think.
I assume that ‘thinking’ requires intelligence.
Woth Artificial intelligence’ proliferating everywhere, does that mean that ‘thinking’ will become redundant.
Our brains will soon become dispensable like the appendix.
Then, humans will drop from being atop the food chain and become just a food. Gosh!
Humans have been in self-destruct mode a long time; perhaps since the beginning of evolution.
From garlic peeler, fruit slicers to driverless cars, robotic brides and escalators at hilly resorts, we are inventing ourselves to redundancy and extinction.
Nature means men and women. ‘Gender’ used to be restricted to two.
Now there are many as both sexes want to be each other as other genders manifested in between.
I like what nature gives. I like durian to remain, with the thorns.
Aliluyah.