Keyword: Ecocrisis

Feigned Indignation: Of marauding exploiters, their "ethical qualms," and a new proposal Email Print

By Jason Miller

Since there was little appetite for my recent polemic in which I advocated including necro-cannibalism as an integral part of our strategy to combat ecocide and world hunger, because very few appeared to take note of the fact that it was not my intention to carefully craft an update of Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (I was actually hurling a hunk of concrete into the placid waters of the indoctrinated readers' minds in order to observe the resultant splash and subsequent ripples), and since despite the depth of Homo rapien moral depravity and their sheer indifference to the suffering, murder, mayhem, and destruction that the human collective causes in order to satiate our desires and perpetuate the disease we call civilization, reader response indicated that the thought of eating our "fellow man" was taking things a bit too far, I'm advancing yet another potential solution to the myriad and complex maladies we've inflicted upon nonhuman animals, the Earth and ourselves.

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