Is this sucking perspective surrounded by stink?
21 October 2008
The gospel according to Edward Abbey:
“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”
Humor is noted.
But how does one assume such a parasitic paradigm?
Obviously, there is an undercurrent of “survival of the fittest” mentality that allows this to make any sort of sense. The tapeworm attaches to the human and sucks life-sustaining nutrients from its host. Its way of life is better in that it lazily leeches from the efforts of its host. It is higher up on the food chain than humanity, therefore we know why God created humans. The human serves it’s needs.
Interesting as it may be, does this interaction of species in any way erode or build significant arguments for or against the existence of God? On the contrary, it seems that this thought sucks life-sustaining elements from this discussion as it lazily leeches from the efforts of its better proponents.
Please allow me to tell you what you get from a tapeworm’s point of view [please forgive me this vulgarity].
Its a bunch of sh…shoved fecal matter.
Would I be inaccurate to suggest the same is true of this quote?
