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letra de strange humankind - nathanology

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many and strange are the things of this world

but nothing’s as strange, or quite as absurd

as you and i — humankind —

you might have heard: we’re kind of the worst

is the title deserved? — human beings:

it’s a quarter million years since we came on the scene;
in the past 300, we made some machines

and began a new age — the anthropocene

…now just how extreme do i have to be

to have a whole planet age that’s named after me?

anthropos — human — it’s greek — i agree:

we changed the whole thing by quite a degree…

celsius. — see? — it’s kind of intense —

we don’t always make ecological sense:

cuz the things we invent, for survival success

may, in the end, just lead to our deaths!

…yes. … but for now we’re alive

and while we’re all here, we may as well ask why —
and how’d we change so much, in so little time —

the history of strange humankind

we’ve been around 300 thou’

and it all started out au naturale —

no horse, no plough; no slave, no master —

that’s fire, wow! — we hunted, and gathered

but nearer to now — 12 millenia tops —

just a little while relative to how long we’ve walked

upon this rock — someone stopped and said let’s plant crops!

and settle in a place, make bread and tend flocks

bet — why not? but in the course of time

as the hunter-gatherer became the grower of the vine

it brought about changes in their hearts and minds:
your farm’s there; this farm’s mine

darn — fine. don’t let it get your goose —

they started owning animals — and ownership and use

came to dominate a consciousness that used to keep it loose:

for as one lives, so is one’s truth

we changed, we adapted —

our numbers increasing

our feeling gave way

to thinking and reasoning

people of taste — eating with seasoning

instead of just eating whatever the season brings

i sing how the shift began

as they planted grains in the shifting sand

as the power-grip shifted throughout the lands

from animal to human, and from woman to man

from family to clan — and what slipped through the cracks

as the way got paved, was the way to get back

from the fictions we made to the natural fact

of the here and the now. — we became abstract

…that’s that

home on the range:

the world was ours

but the world was changed

and the things of this world

became things of exchange

and the earth and the self

which were one

were estranged

none stranger you can find

than the stranger humankind

ah yes. humans will be humans —

dust unto dust to industrial revolution

the age of mass production and accelerated movement —

and it never really ended, cuz we’re kinda still doin it

throw this one a way, buy myself a new one —

throw myself away — my self is such a nuisance —

find myself a way to disappear into my room and

if i need to know what life is like i’ll stay at home and google it

and true, we’ve made progress

and awesome hits

and the laptop software i wrought this with —

but we also made an big atomic bomb that hit

and for all time altered all of this

the radiation remains

and in our blood and our brains

are all the particles of polythene in hydrocarbon chains

from our plastic bags —

and so it’s hardly strange

we made a problem as large

as climate change

change. money

— but money is nothing:

it really is, kids, it’s just a symbol of something —

just a little piece of paper on a number we’re running

you can’t live in it or eat it

and it’s not even yummy

it’s stunning — to think that we don’t actually need it —

i mean it — we really don’t actually need it:

we grow enough a day to feed the planet and to keep it

as a thing that’s free for everyone and yet we don’t feed them

and you may say, wait! we got a bottom line:

at the top they got a lot and at the bottom not a dime —

but that concept’s not inherent in the mind

it’s contingent on the way we’ve developed over time

— i’m not denying it’s survival of the fittest

but survival of the fittest wasn’t always such a business:

it was different when applied to our original conditions

when we tried to fit the best with ecosystems that we lived in

ahhh, h0m- sapiens —

one part progress, one part sloppiness

i don’t want to descend into soppiness

but sometimes i feel sorry for all of us

but then i think this — if we human beings

have changed the world once for the worse, then it seems

we could change it again — we could intervene

and give a new meaning to anthropocene

imagine the scene —

ecstatically green —

the age when humanity gathers its dream into action — and seeing

the rational being

reconnected at last, with a planet that’s clean

this means that we’re not the worst:

your actions do matter

the plan is not cursed:

integrate the new with the way we lived first

and celebrate the work:

save the humans of the earth

it isn’t just words

or an abstract movement —

it’s a fact, and a truth

that if everyone is doin’ what

they can where they’re at

well then that’s a revolution —

a radical reunion of the planet and the human

… so sure it is strange

being this animal, having this brain —

and yet we can change — and may redefine

just what it is to be human: kind

- nathanology

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