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| The current state of humanity London, ON July 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
In a way, this scene seems to explain the current state of humanity rather effectively. That’s because this is a rather special garbage can. It sits at the edge of a playground, and while the photo makes it difficult to see, it has a steel cover with a small hole in the middle. This makes it easy to drop, say, small dog poop bags in, but not the overflow from last week’s household garbage run.
Yet a day after this photo was taken, the abandoned cherub had been joined by a towering pile of poo bags and other ickies that cascaded off the clearly filled can and into an unholy mess below.
Is it a first world problem? Of course. It hardly ranks as a headline when dictators are trying to rewrite the rules to feed their own need for power, economies are collapsing, and kids go to summer camp only to come home in body bags.
Yet as I walked our clearly unimpressed puppy home, I couldn’t stop thinking about the thought processes of total strangers who lacked the wherewithal to simply take their garbage home with them, and instead just added to the pile.
It speaks to who we are as people, and in that moment, I was rather saddened by what this scene was telegraphing. Because if we’re so self-centred and unkind that we’d willingly leave this kind of mess behind, what other unkindnesses are we sending out into the world?
Maybe I’m being dramatically trivial, but it makes me shake my head and worry for our future. I hope we can learn to do - and be - better.
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