Oh No

I just bought this book that I'm reading, called Blood River.

I'm just freaked out. I don't know if the older you get, the more freaked out you get, but I guess it's so. It becomes your awareness of the fragility of all life, from an ant to a grasshopper to a weasel to a cat to a dog to a chimp to a human to an ecosphere to a planet to a star to a solar system.

I know, because I was there. I was in this inhuman place called Zaïre, now ludicrously called the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But when I was there, there was a modicum of what is called civilization. But nature has a way of reclaiming itself, and humans have a way of debasing themselves, and all this has happened.

From the north to the south, I have to say ALL OF AFRICA is now a wasteland. It's just one VAST land of mayhem.

It's a creeping creep of chaos that is starting to grip the entire world.

But the news is that it's not new. We never fucking learn. We still exploit, ruin and kill each other with extraordinary enthusiasm.

Let me get further into this book. Then you will hear from me. Now I have to hug Brigitte.