I Complain Too Much

I'm back, and petty as ever!!

(Edit: quick warning, references to religion, a paragraph about politics and people being dumb there, me being petty)

That's right, wonders, this book is back! I don't know if it's gonna stay for a long time, I don't know if I'm gonna start being regular, I'm too tired to think properly at the moment so let's ignore common sense and editing and all that writing nonsense and get to some good ole fashioned complaining. I'm sorry if it doesn't flow or it something doesn't make sense, I'm kind of scatter brained at the moment.

Great start.

We start today's complaint with a disclaimer: I don't hate every single human being on the planet on a personal level. And you all already know by now that I love you guys because you accept me and deal with my bullshit and you're all so supportive and nice and-

You get the point. This isn't an attack. This is just me being fed up. As per usual, really.

So I went to a castle thing the other day, and it was really pretty. It was about 6pm, so the actual place was closed. We were more just looking at the scenery and exploring, that sort of thing. Walking around and watching the sun begin to set over the sea.

Right beside this castle, there was a bit of marshland, presumably a wonderful place for birds and one of the only places that's this remote in the UK. There was a little road there, but it was clearly marked as 'please don't drive down here, nesting birds are here'. Nice and simple. Most cars were parked somewhere about a kilometre away (I don't know distance but let's go with that as an arbitrary figure).

But someone had prised open the gate, and began to drive down that little road, right next to these potentially endangered nesting birds, as I was walking upland on these hills just past the castle. They must have been about six meters below us, not very far, but still I wouldn't have jumped down if it was a sheer drop.

When we got there, these individuals had managed to drive into the ditch. Yes. The ditch. These are marshlands on an island only accessible through a causeway or a ferry, the former of which is only open when the tides are out. So you'd think that a lot of birds feel safe enough to make their nests around a road which isn't allowed to be driven down by the general public, a lot of birds which might be quite rare or sensitive to human activity.

And four people in a large family carrier or jeep or whatever it was, drive into the fucking ditch.

Not once. Oh no. Twice.

Now you may wonder 'why is this of importance? Why does this matter so much to author?'

Well, to put it bluntly, I'm tired of people disrespecting the planet due to sheer laziness. Like, sure, maybe I'm not the perfect example of someone who's willing to do loads, and I am pretty lazy, but there's a line that you shouldn't cross.

To me, if you completely ignore the rules of the island and drive on past the tourist car park and then into a further restricted area full of currently nesting birds and potentially rare plants just because you can't be bothered to walk a kilometre or two, that's gone past the line.

Sure, I don't like to move much, as we all know, but I have enough common sense in my brain to know that the green spaces on this earth are running out, and so any safe haven for animals is so fucking precious. Anyone who's read Tail of Taekook can probably take a pretty accurate guess of my view on how humans treat the rest of the world, and now is a perfect time to go into detail on that.

Maybe I'm being overdramatic. Maybe I'm petty. Maybe it's both. I don't care. This is how I feel and it's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Put simply, humans have no respect for the world around them. Plastic crisis? 'Uwu lets get rid of straws and actively shame those who need them because of a disability or something whilst encouraging further use of damaging plastic nets and gear in the oceans because our food is more important than every species in the ocean uwu'

I don't mean to bring up politics, but sometimes it can be so goddamn selfish and it pisses me off more than I can possibly explain. Some of the main political problems of the day are due to the fact that old people with old fashioned ideals are being given the power, and they prioritise their own selfish agendas over the interests of a country. I hate that.

Nobody cares about your fucking golf courses, Donald, maybe you should spend some money on something that fucking matters, huh? And maybe you can stop splitting families apart whilst you're at it, Mr 'I'm improving our country for the better'? Try and avoid attacking the people who make more of a contribution to their community than this so called world leader does to his country, please.

And the other thing is. We can all do something to help the situation. Just sitting around going 'oh it's America so there's nothing I can do' isn't going to help anyone, as an example. I might live in Britain, I might have no power over American politics but if I don't call bullshit out when I see it, my brothers, sisters, and non binary siblings across the (is it the Pacific?) will suffer. And I can't live with that.

I'm not saying I'd be a good leader. I can't even lead myself, let alone others. Im not saying that America is the only place which has fucked up. Far from it. But I can't sit here and comment on things I barely know about because it's not my place to. I'd appreciate knowing about it, most definitely, but right now I don't know enough. And I hate that more than I can admit.

I'm also not saying that all adults are the same, or that all old people are the same or whatever. But that's just the trend I've seen among a lot of world leaders. You may disagree.

The western media is too ethnocentric, too. Everything is ethnocentric. And it sucks. (Ethnocentric is the idea that a system focuses on the native culture or the dominant culture at the expense of others. Eg teaching British history and ignoring the history of other countries in the process)

We learn about how straight people live. We learn about how the dominant culture is, just because everything should fit in this stupid fucking box. So what if I don't want to live my life according to that? So what if some of my friends believe in a different God, or no deity at all? So what if some of my friends want to know about their own culture, even if they've moved to another? Is that such a terrible thing?

I hate it because I don't know shit about different religions, other than what I've had to teach myself, and some very crude basics. I know quite a bit about one, Christianity, but I couldn't tell you much about Judaism or Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism or-

I could go on forever, but hopefully you get the point.

So this started as me being pissed off about the destruction of a few bird habitats and then moved on to humans being selfish. I mean, I hate the focus of humans on themselves and the assumption that intelligence fits a certain quota. All animals are equally intelligent, we just show it differently. How else do you explain the way a shark can identify its prey, or the way that bees communicate? It's just different.

But hopefully what I've said makes sense, hopefully some of you agree with me, and hopefully I haven't made any enemies by putting my arguments like that.

I'm tired, it's not gonna make much sense, I'm afraid.

But I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful day ;)

Izzy