Special Class

Aren't we special. The human race, we are special because we are so smart. We are not ruled by instinct, we think our way through things.
I sit each morning and watch a flock of Cedar Waxwings descend on the tall cedar tree by the window. They bustle about, eating cedar berries from the tree. They never go out to the end of the branches, The prevalence of hawks in this neighborhood explains that. They stay a few minutes and then they all fly away, leaving many berries still on the tree. This continues until the Spring. I am sure that they do this by instinct. They are not politicians but they are still birdbrains. They don't know that they are saving themselves from future starvation. Instinct saves them from themselves.
We are using petroleum as if there were no end to the supply. Everyone complains about the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Imagine how much the LAST gallon of gasoline is going to cost. Gasoline is a limited resource, it doesn't fall from the sky. Water does. People buy water in stores, never complaining that a gallon of water cost more than a gallon of gasoline. The reasoning for bottled water is that the municipal supplies are tainted. We need water to live, every day. Didn't anyone ever stop to think " If I foul the water, I won't have any for tomorrow.".
We need oxygen, water, food, shelter, and love. Can't you feel the love around us, listen to the lyrics of today's popular songs. With the mortgage crisis, many people are going to end up without shelter. Most of our food supply is based on corn. Some genius has come up with a way to substitute corn for petroleum. We will be able to drive to where the grocery store used to be.
Remember Perrier? The French were sitting around one day, they do that a lot, and decided that there was no more challenge in outsmarting the English. "How can we trick the Americans into doing something even more foolish than holding the fork in the right hand? I know, we will get them to buy water. I know it sounds preposterous, but we'll put bubbles in it. They are suckers for bubbles, especially if the bubbles are French.".
Americans finally wised up and started selling their own water. What are the French doing now? They are sitting around, they do that a lot and there are a lot of them doing it because the live so long, and working on a new idea.
"How can we make the Americans look even more foolish than people who buy what falls from the sky? I know, we will sell them oxygen. Pure oxygen from the Pyrenees. The problem is that we can't put bubbles in it. I know, we will put an aroma in it and say that it is theraputic. When they ask what the aroma is, we will tell them it is from an herb that can only be grown in France, the Jenecequois plant. Once they are hooked, we can tell them that the Jenecequois goes with a happy meal. You need petiteetudie for a whopper and eaudemoron for pizza.".
We need petroleum from corn to bring our food supply from the mid-west to the seaboards, Empty Trucks. We go way out on a limb to finance the policies of hawks. We are indeed members of a Special Class. Tomorrow we are going to learn to snap the velcro straps on our sneakers so we don't fall down on our way to the zoo.
I am going to have to find an oxygen that goes well with bile, something with a hint of flint, tobacco, and oak mmmm.