littering is good.

so i was all driving along the highway with mon cher papa ce soir, and talking about contractarianism. and he was all, "oh, those people who litter on the side of the highway" blah blah, littering is bad because they think oh they'll just do it themselves and nobody else will do it.

but i've always been of the opinion that littering doesn't really matter for shit. i mean, humanity is basically a cancerous growth on the surface of the earth. we fucking eat up all its resources and kill it and we're completely unsustainable. that doesn't mean that i hate humanity. i mean, fuck, i'm human. i bet that each individual cancerous cell probably roots for the tumor, don't you think? it's not like cancer is all self-hating like "oh, finally, chemotherapy, come to wipe us dirty shameful fuckers out of existence." no, they're all, "shit, this blows!"

but that doesn't mean we need to cover up our cancerousness by sending all of our waste off to landfills. i mean i can understand wanting to minimize impact by not throwing six-pack rings into the lake where they're gonna kill helpless little precious birdies. but there's no helpless little precious birdies playing in the filth alongside the freeway, so i'm damn well gonna throw my garbage wherever the hell i want. i don't think that we really accomplish much of anything by covering up how utterly and gluttonously consumerist we all essentially are.

hell, maybe if we live in our own filth we'll be a little more enthusiastic about actually limiting the amount of filth we spew out.