Hale Kilinahe: The Journal

DECEMBER 14, 1997 I played hooky from work today. I just wasn't up for a day of running around like a headless chicken, so I played sick. Sue me. So we took the grand tour of the H3 today. After a round trip into Kaneohe and back through Aiea, I concluded that it's just a road. It certainly wasn't designed or built for the amusement of the masses; it's just there to help us get from Point A to Point B. Since it's a New Thing, though, people are treating it like a state fair or a new mall. Part of the reason that people are just joyriding it, too, is that it's been built up so much. It's taken 37 years to finish and anything that takes that long has to be Something, right? But all the planning and fuss involved doesn't change the fact that it's a big slab of concrete designed for travel. Even if the view is gorgeous. A few weeks ago, I was flipping through the channels and I stopped on footage of some orca whales doing their orca whale thing in the ocean. Then I realized that it was one of those inane "reality" shows where morons with cameras film stuff. Anyway, what eventually happened is that a medium-sized whale got hungry and swam into shallow waters to catch a sea lion and eat it. Then a reporter's voice started this whole rant about how this evil, sadistic killer whale was torturing this poor, hapless sea lion and this whale must be stopped! Please! It's a whale! It's trying to eat! It's just going from day to day trying not to starve or be eaten by something else. It's going about it's daily routine when the sea lion's luck just happens to run out. That's how nature is, kids. People seem to like to assign human standards of behavior to animals or inanimate objects. But I've always liked animals far better than people anyway. People are so lame. If any psychology types out there can tell me in scientific terms why people get so stupid this time of the year, I'd love to know. Gosh, I'm hormonal again, aren't I? Sorry. < BACK | TOP | NEXT >