Boomers Are Bull, Bellow Butterflies

We are often piously enjoined to steer clear of making moral judgments, if we can at all help it. This is one main characteristic of Sundays. Maybe that is why there is so much immorality currently sweeping the planet, especially on the part of the last two "victorious" U.S. Presidential campaigns.

So I will make just such a statement here and now.

Boomers -- highly secretive and sneaky underwater naval vessels built to launch nuclear-bomb-tipped intercontinental missiles and ostensibly meant to protect someone -- are utter bullshit.

And that is just one of many chief reasons why, for another eon or two at least, humans should never be allowed, by the laws of physics and what-not -- to escape the confines of this gorgeous planet. In this latest of the geologic periods, the Earth has been cursed by forces that in ways are more obscene than thunder lizards, asteroid hits, or ice sheets. This time it is being overrun by a species that would build and thus intend to use against each other weapons that, when detonated, would make large areas of the Earth's surface inhospitable to most forms of life for thousands of years to come. And they would do this for the most frivolous of reasons, such as the maintenance of purely temporary and quite possibly unnecessary institutions like nations and ideologies -- matters that are of absolutely no interest or importance to any other organisms.

Butterflies and even rats and roaches have never deserved such poisoning and obliteration of themselves and their later generations. A just world would reserve that fate purely for those who make and tolerate the existence of such weapons. But little is ever said about excluding all the innocents of the animate and inanimate world from the same calamity, and that is boomerism's most profane aspect of all.