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This post is over a month old – something I started, but never finished, but here it is:

Take a look out the window. Doesn’t it look a little skankier than it did before? I’m talking general skankiness, and not any bullshit gender specific variety. For example, I just got home from vacation and there was a skanky blanket on my doorstep. It probably didn’t help that I got some smoked salmon for Christmas, and that was all I had to eat when I got back from the airport. But still, I’ve never gotten smoked salmon for Christmas before, so it still supports my point. Also, after I got back from vacation it was really humid and warm, so humid that it was beaded up and running down every surface around. Sweaty skank. Also, suddenly my jeans that I hadn’t washed for months since I bought them started smelling like mildew, and I can’t get rid of it.

Parallel to entropy (or perhaps identical with entropy) is an increase in skankiness. Look at movies from the 50’s or something compared to movies today.  Clearly an increase in skankiness. Actually, on second thought, there must be cycles of skankiness. Cave men were probably pretty skanky. The primordeal soup had to be pretty skanky, but before the primordeal soup, the water probably wasn’t very skanky. The heat death of the universe doesn’t sound very skanky, but some time after the Big Bang, when all kinds of shit is going down like physical laws separating out, and unfathomable forces, atomic particles fused together, etc. that all sounds pretty skanky. The weather has been doing some skanky stuff in recent years you’d have to admit, but an ice age certainly isn’t skanky.

My impression has been that 2009 is pretty skanky. I would welcome any other confimatory evidence from my readership.

Just one quick thing to say to the world…I just read this article about this indian tribe in Brazil that has never had contact with civilization. (Check out the photos of them shooting arrows at the helicopter). Anyways, if you look at these photos, and you see the grass huts out in the jungle, don’t you think they might at least like to have the opportunity at a life in the city? Yeah, it is questionable to just run in with the Bible and start baptizing them, but how about a brochure of what life is like in the city? It is a strange reaction that some people think that we should just leave them be,  and not contact them at all. How long? Forever? While we are having this endless orgy in the big city, they are digging in the dirt, shooting arrows at anything strange that they come accross. Do we assume that they wouldn’t want to? Do we have an idea that it is romantic and peaceful in the jungle and that we know it is in their best interest to let them have their peace for as long as we can? Is it that we don’t want to be liable for their culture’s disintegration and assimilation into ours? A brochure and invitation would be better than waiting until the logging trucks show up. Can’t we put them up somewhere? Study them or something? They don’t have to bag groceries or anything; they presumably could be of some other value. I know this sounds horrible, and I am not suggesting that we corral them up and stick them in some anthropology dept., but I’m just questioning this intention to leave them be.