What will they think in 100 years?

100 A.D., Rome -- In the Colosseum, persecuted Christians are thrown into the ring with blood-thristy lions. Contrary to Hollywood-inspired popular belief, Russell Crowe was not actually present to save the day.

1692, Salem, MA -- The Salem witch trials culminate in the deaths of at least 20 people accused of witchcraft.

1945, Germany -- The Holocaust.

These are all historical events that, when we look back on today, we can only ask ourselves, "how did that happen? How did the people who lived through that not realize how crazy things were?" Can you imagine bearing witness to such crazy events and not realizing how completely bizarre and irrational they truly were? Is there anything that our great-grandchildren will look back on in the year 2100 and shake their heads and wonder how we could have ever been so stupid?

I humbly submit the following for consideration. I do not mean to make direct comparisons between what I've listed above and what the people are talking about on this clip. I'm only trying to suggest that this type of attitude and disrespect will someday be remembered as a tragedy in its own right. Hopefully, when people look back on this type of attitude as a relic from history, they'll be doing so from a green, healthy planet, and not some dark, sun-less, Bladerunner-type existence.

What more can I say about a person who expresses a feeling of erotic pleasure about the chopping down of trees on Earth Day. Perhaps I'll leave the last word to Thomas Pynchon. He was writing about nuclear armageddon, but if you substitute "Slothrop" for "Beck," and "rockets exploding in the sky" for "trees being chopped down," you'll see it's not so far off.

"Jamf was only a fiction, to help [Slothrop] explain what he felt so terribly, so immediately in his genitals for those rockets each time exploding in the sky... to help him deny what he could not possibly admit: that he might be in love, in sexual love, with his, and his race's, death."