Hayter for July 20, 2025
“Forget about me.
Save yourselves”
This week’s article is intended to awaken us to a reality that will bring an end to mankind. I’m not all that worried about it because I’m as good as gone. I’d carry this out a little longer, but I don’t have as much time as you do.
Let me cut to the chase and tell you what’s happening. It’s microplastics. They’re all over the place. You’ve been ingesting them for years and didn’t know it. The keyboard that I’m tapping on right now is covered in microscopic pieces that are getting into my skin, mouth, ears, nose, and probably my hair follicles. There’s too much plastic in my life.
Forty percent of everything in my house is covered in plastic flakes. Even my cereal, which is stuffed into a plastic bag and then crammed into a cardboard box. The surface of my desk and the drawers are covered with tiny pieces of microplastic. You’re inhaling them at this very minute. If your toilet seat is made of plastic, you’re hauling around a load of the stuff.
If they had the time and the concern, the CSB could type out a set of encyclopedias listing from A to Z the items, including internal and external body parts, food in the refrigerator, freezer, shoes, clothing… everything that contains microplastics in it.-- Beg your pardon? Sorry. CSB is the Chemical Safety Board. President Trump closed it down after learning about microplastics. -- That’s a lie. Like me, the President thought CSB was a TV channel.
In the last 10 years, microplastics have increased by 50 percent. The creation of the first plastic was back in 1862. By 1907, a gentleman by the name of Bakelite invented the first synthetic plastic. To do tha,t he stirred up different chemicals until he got something that he thought would be good for raincoats, umbrellas, and car seats.
There are multiple ways that plastic can enter your body. You can eat it and possibly choke to death. That’s the easiest way, but it’s rarely done. It’s best that you just keep doing what you're doing. The atomic plastic particles are flying around in your house, hiding in your clothes, your lamps, your car, garage, refrigerator… Yes, I’m getting tired of naming things! They’re everywhere. It won’t be long before you get to read the Plastic Encyclopedia.
I learned all of this stuff earlier this morning. I was pleasantly ignorant before that. It turns out that plastic has atomic and molecular microbes that end up all over you. Yes, your ears, nose, underarms, and whatever else your body is made of. And what all of these microbes do is attach themselves to everything in your body that is transported by blood or air. Your brain is full of plastic flakes.
The ailments created by microplastics have grown in number over the years. We just didn’t know about them until some nosy scientist determined that the causes of heart disease, cancer, and practically every ailment known to mankind can be tied to plastic. I quit reading after finding out that dementia was among the illnesses. At this very moment, all of us have tiny pieces of plastic floating around in our brains. I’m surprised I was able to remember that.
Speaking of the nice outfit you’re wearing, there’s a good chance that it’s covered in microplastics. Polyester material contains both petroleum and plastic. As you might imagine, bottled water has microscopic plastic flakes floating in it. Practically every soft drink, fruit juice, mustard, and mayonnaise container, pill, pair of underwear… It’s all married to plastic.
Oh yeah, and before stepping into your house, you need to leave your shoes on either the porch or in the flowerbed, because minuscule plastic fibers are floating in the air, covering some of the vegetation, and floating atop the sidewalk.
The best way to stop our microplastic problem would be to go back to 1862 and find a guy named Alexander Parkes, who created the first plastic. I think he made it out of some kind of plant life. In 1909, a guy invented plastic out of milk. I’m fairly sure it was an accident. With each decade, more types of plastic were created from the imaginations and mistakes of inventors.
The only thing that would end the production of plastic would be the invention of a less environmentally damaging material for packaging. Unfortunately, unless it’s cheaper than plastic, nobody’s going to buy the new stuff. After all, we’re not stupid.
Speaking of which, did you ever see the episode of The Twilight Zone, when a man got a chance to go back in time and stop the assassination of Lincoln? It turns out that he was unsuccessful because people thought he was trying to kill Lincoln. He couldn’t win for losing. I’ve had that problem myself.
If we were able to go back in time to prevent the creation of plastics, I assume a new Twilight Zone might come up showing the impossibility of changing the past. It reminds me of the poem written by the Persian poet Omar Khayyam around 1100 AD. The 55th verse of the massively long poem reads “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.” In other words, you can’t go back in time.
Of course, that’s what I must do right now. I’ve shared with you the many dangers of plastic. Now that we know of the dangers, what can we do about them? I’m going to follow the words of Forest Gump’s mom, who said, “Forest, dying is a part of life.” -- If that doesn’t perk you up, nothing will.
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