chapter 84: space moments

but today was worse. i hope tomorrow is better.

what was i talking about before? oh yeah, invasive species.

i was watching this tv show about them the other day. somewhere along the gulf coast these fish are taking over. they’re from japan or something and they’re taking over entire rivers—or, at least, significant stretches of them—killing off all the native fishes and harming the ecosystem. or that’s what tv wants me to believe. conflict. i mean, they go as far as interviewing some guy with the nature conservatory saying he’d wipe out this invasive fish. it would help i could remember the name of the fish. but i do remember that it was a transport from asia. and i think tv was trying to reinforce this point. it’s somehow being tied to maybe immigration or globalization or terrorism.

think about it like this: it represents a threat to boundaries; instead of a threat to national or cultural boundaries, invasive species are a threat to an existing eco-system. invasive species threaten our way of life.

but why would i expect tv to handle its image of environmentalism any differently than its image of terrorism? it’s all flash and hype.

there’s where you have a problem with it: you like the nature conservatory. i mean, i like the nature conservatory’s bird sanctuary out by the great salt lake. and they hated invasive species too. this time it was some kind of willow that was taking over large parts of the marshland. last time i was there, they were doing controlled burns to fight it. (again, i don’t know the name of the species.)

i’m getting off course. again. what are you trying to say? i’ve got to come back to this later.