It’s absolutely hilarious and absurd while simultaneously frustrating, sad, disgusting, embarrassing, hypocritical (did I forget any?) that we apes in “modern” society hand out awards to each other with one hand, while trashing the planet with the other, and then sweep it under the rug. Literally. New York’s biggest landfill (biggest in the world at some point) has been turned into a park! Imagine 100,000 years from now when future archeologists try to uncover what our species was like, and find, not fossilized evidence of our existence, but actual trash!

Imagine taking your blood cells, bone marrow, etc., turning into some inorganic material that your body cannot reabsorb, then shoving it back under your skin. You’d die from infection. Well that’s exactly what we’ve done with the earth’s elements: turned them into products (such as plastic and styrofoam) then dump them back onto the earth into an even worse form than how they were in their original, and more importantly: natural forms.

Obviously, the earth isn’t dying or wounded. And in the grand scheme of things, the earth and the universe does. not. give. a. single. fuck about themselves, or even us. So trashing the planet isn’t that big of a deal (big picture). Environmental concerns aside, it’s just absolutely juvenile and hypocritical to hand out awards, especially in one of the biggest environmental destructive and wasteful sectors in society: the entertainment industry as a whole.

Each award show, such as the Oscar Awards, the Emmy Awards, the Grammy Awards, even other events like the NFL Super Bowl, should begin with the total environmental impact, destruction, and resources their sectors and audience (that’s us) contributed to the planet that year, such as all the food waste (i.e. catering, half-eaten hot dogs, spilled popcorn, etc.), factory farming reliance, fast fashion, water usage, plastics, emissions from travelling to concerts, and so on.

Then, instead of hosting on stage, host them at a different landfill each year. And other celebratory events like the Super Bowl should be played in a landfill too!

Then maybe, just maybe, people will be like “wait, is that… us? do we do that?” but nah. We’ll just continue to ignore it, enjoy our entertainment, and hand out awards because clearly we’re so awesome!

Thank evolution for humor because it’s the only way I can handle the absolute audacity, nonsense, absurdity, and lack of complete and total awareness our species has as a whole.

Somehow landfills , factory farming, etc., have somehow become acceptable and status quo.

I’m starting to wonder if giving up alcohol was actually a good thing and that I should have remained in a constant state of stupor like many people, accepting this society as normal and not question anything.

Intelligence is a curse, I swear.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some sicilian pizza to eat, courtesy of whatever factory farmed cows were milked to create the cheese, and wherever the fuck the ingredients for the dough came from…