A Bird, A Car, and Peak Human Priorities
Seriously? An owl? Rescued from a car grille? This is what makes news now? Were facing climate catastrophe, political unrest that could make Roman emperors blush, and the continued existence of pineapple on pizza (a genuine tragedy!), but no, we’re celebrating a bird’s close call with an automobile.
I mean, bless the rescuers, I suppose. They undoubtedly did a good deed. But couldnt this owl have just…you know… not flown into someone’s car? Is that too much to ask of a nocturnal predator known for its excellent eyesight? Apparently so. Because we needed photographic evidence of this event. We needed heartwarming stories about tiny claws and bewildered eyes, all because somebody apparently wasn’t paying attention while driving.
Its just the perfect distillation of everything irritating about modern society. A fleeting moment of animal-related distress gets more coverage than actual systemic problems. People will share this story with saccharine captions about the resilience of nature, completely missing the point that a bird was nearly flattened because someone wasn’t looking where they were going.
Lets all pat ourselves on the back for caring about an owl, while ignoring the bigger, uglier things swirling around us. Because apparently, rescuing a feathered friend is more important than, I don’t know, preventing wildfires or addressing income inequality. Just wonderful. Absolutely marvelous.
