The Ironies of Supermarket Man: Weeds

When humans are innovative, cunning and excel on the planet earth, they deem themselves 'successful'. When plants or animals do the same, they are seen as weeds or parasites.

Take the Dandelion for instance: a little yellow flower that erupts on your precious lawn in summer, is seen as a pest of a weed. It has this 'damned' root that cannot be destroyed except with a weed killer. How dare this silly little flower erupt on our perfect lawns and 'spoil' it?

In fact, the Dandelion is a very valuable plant: that 'damned' root can be dried, roasted and milled, creating a caffeine free drink that resembles caramel coffee; simply delicious. The leaf can be cooked and eaten like rocket or spinach, and the flower can be made into a tea. It even has diuretic effects, aiding with blood pressure etc. The Dandelion is one example of many.


Supermarket Man has spun himself into this illusory, materialistic and super hedonist world, where everything is seen as a means to an end; that end being the exploitation of resources and conforming of nature to this picture-perfect hedonist paradise of infinite pleasures of the flesh. In the process, Supermarket Man is detaching itself from Gaia and his very own soul...he is in fact, missing the point of life, and becoming the weed himself.

Supermarket Man should just one day, stop and wake up to the already perfect existence around himself, unfortunately spoiled by grey concrete structures, smog and the sound of artillery intermingled with the screams of the wounded.

In between the glass, metal and picture perfect gardens, there is a profound stillness; a Hum of universal proportions silently but surely binding everything into one continuum. The Hum that flows through everything - including you, dear reader - quietly creating the Mystery of Life...