Halls of the Dark Muse

I really do not know what to say. I have just heard something that just leaves me speeachless and makes me want to go and bang my head against a brick wall a few dozen times.

There is this place in Indonesia where for centuries the people who live there had found a way to live in harmony with the Komodo Dragon's who also live in the area. And for 1000s of years, the people have coexisisted with these creatures in a way in which both parties were happy more or less. The dragons never harressed the people, and the people revered the dragon's as being sacred and never hunt them or hurt them.

What the people do, is when they go out on deer hunts they would leave offerings of parts of the deer out for the dragons, and on occassion they would sacrifice a goat to the dragons. They would take one of thier goats and leave it out there for the dragons. Which I know becasue the people are seen as being more "primitive" or tribal, people will have a tendency to think that sounds so barbaric and horrible. But it is no different from when I go to the reptile store and buy a live mouse to sacrifice to my snake to eat.

The people also keep dogs as pets, and the barking of the dogs, does help to warn away the dragons if they do come too close to the people's homes.

So anyway, so far so good.

But than this group of Enviromentalists come along and of course they think they have a better idea than the one which has been working for more than 100 years. Becasue they are "civilized" and "educated" they have a better system.

So the enviromentlest come in and say. "First of all you cannot go on deer hunts anymore, becasue we can't have you killing the dear, and goat sacrifices are inumane, so you cannot do that anymore, and dogs are not a native speicies to this area, so you have to get rid of your dogs.

And guess what happend after this brilliant plan was implimented?

Komodo Dragon's started attacking people, which has never happend before.

I just want to scream after that, it is so frustrating and just arrrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!!

I am left completely speachless.