Howdy Internet,
Last week, at a thrift store, I happened upon Krishnamurti’s book On Nature and the Environment. It was a quick and thoughtful read, packed with little bursts of wisdom.
In one journal entry, he makes an off-handed reference to the horrors of animal testing and all my recent reading of primitive myth came flooding back to me. I suddenly made the connection between our “modern” scientific practices and the ancient rituals of animal sacrifice.
New names and reasons for our behavior, but little has fundamentally changed. If anything, it has gotten significantly worse.
We love to think of ourselves as highly-civilized, but like most of modern life, we have simply distanced ourselves from that which makes us uncomfortable.
I wrote this poem in response to this personal epiphany.
Hope y’all enjoy :)
It is a new year and our medicine men gather in secret ordained in ceremonial garb the white lab coat and sacred scalpel heads bowed under the fluorescent glow of the Western mind priests pray secret tongues in the name of Holy Science incense lit of aerosol and ammonia altar set with tools of rite and right the cult of eternal purity and necessary evil gathers two of every kind together we sacrifice 100,000,000 white lab mice to the gods of medicine and progress Same old rituals with a new name Ancient myth made modern in the false light of humanism and the scientific method We love to play pretend enlightened Evolved and all-seeing modern man still prey scared in the shadow of invisible monsters still praying scared to the spirits of what we do not yet know Funny, the savages before us bleeding a single bull to beg the gods for safety Maybe a million more and they’d outrun death as well as we Maybe another billion will save us from ourselves
Thanks for reading y’all,
Alex
Wake up babe a new Alex Sparks poem just dropped
Love this, Alex! You have a beautiful way with words!
Maybe the new Christspiracy movie coming out this month for a limited, two night showing, touches on this, im not sure, but i got tickets! Its from the creators of What the Health and Cowspiracy.
Looking forward to your next😊