Resistance is Organic

(de-politicized rant warning)


Amino acids don't voluntarily bond to form proteins and eventually life because they want to, or because they think it would be cool to "grow".

Viruses don't destroy healthy cells and replicate with their carcasses because they wish us ill or because we are trying to kill them.

Bacteria doesn't become resistant to anti-biotics because they're crapping their pants about how good we've become at creating wonder drugs.

The fact is, resistance isn't futile.

It's human. It's natural. It's organic.

Since the building blocks of life first formed on this earth it has been resisting the impossibilities. It has been saying, "Take that cruel world, you only thought that molten hot volcanic vent a mile deep in the ocean would scare me away".

Only today there was an article about bacteria found living in radioactive toxic residue. This stuff is weird, but it's out there, and it makes our human forms of resistance look mundane, however valid or seemingly righteous.

So yes, it is completely understandable that any person would resist any non-self-induced status. Or just any status for that matter. It's only natural. It's in us, like gatorade, through and through.

We, as Americans, resisted to create this great country. We resist continuously as our constitutional right allows. And we often resist our responsibilities.

All of that said, I respect, completely, each and every person's right to resist. If you're in my neighborhood we'll even do a little co-resisting some time. All I'm asking is that we remember every now and then that it's not always so terrible to unite about something.

Unity, in this divided world that we live in, can be viewed as resistance to chaos after all.




( rant inspiration)