Humanity Needs A Mascot

Like Iron Maiden’s “Eddie”

According to Bruce Dickinson

In his book

“What Does This Button Do?”



(Am paraphrasing since I

Listened to the audio book)



What keeps the band together

Through petty squabbles and

Major riffs (guitar pun, mine)

What carries them forward

Through tough times is “Eddie”

Their macabre metal mascot

Being a greater purpose to

In the end, always getting along

As a combined unit of unity

With slight variations and a few deaths

“Eddie” is greater than the sum of their parts




Same could work for humanity

Not the invisible one that already

Has eight billion interpretations

Which causes so much death because

Everyone has a different perspective

That their version is the best and if

Only all, could be guided “their’s”

Everything would be hunky dory




For the briefest moment

 “A moment is coming. Almost here. Its getting closer… any moment now, almost here aaaaaaand now its gone.”

– George Carlin


Literally, for the briefest moment

The photograph of the earth itself

Dawned a realization, this is our home

That we ought to care of it and

Each other born of its Gaia consciousness




But unlike “Eddie,” that image did not adapt

To new evolving phases (albums)

Seventeen in nearly fifty years

Each member, either side of 70 years old

The image stayed the same

So the inhabitants got bored quickly

Discarded the image through apathy

Although now, when viewed again

The overpopulated metro areas

Look like a cancer growth on its host


“Southwick in his Chapter 15 excerpt Human Populations introduces a very interesting analogy between the human population and cancer cells.”

“Other scientists consider human population growth ‘an ecopathological process’ that is out of control and injuring the earth.  In this sense, such population growth in some parts of the world is carcinogenic, a ‘cancer-like growth’ with the potential of destroying the global ecosystem.” 


http://fubini.swarthmore.edu/~ENVS2/S2010/mahn1/overpopulation.html


Where can we find that “Eddie” like mascot to help us evolve and grow whilst still getting along without fighting over the mascot?


“Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light
Shadows in the stars
We will not return
Humanity won’t save us
At the speed of light

We slip into the night”

“The Speed Of Light”

– Iron Maiden


“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”

– Angelo Devlin