The Ocean poses an argument—
We want to be your friend, please believe us. Please be our friends. OK? Nice. And as a friend, can we ask, are all these divisions so necessary? More pointedly—will you, as friends, please stop trying to split us into pieces?
Let’s just start with the naming thing. First of all, we have no limbs. There are no dangly items on us to be called the Pacific part and the Atlantic part—we are not this so-called Arctic at one end and Southern at the other. We have no ends. Pacific, Atlantic—what the hell does that mean? What are you trying to tell us with these names? Indian? The Indian Ocean? All of us is indigenous, and we are one thing like the amoeba.
We all flow and mingle amongst ourselves, like an amoeba. The “Southern” name? We are not polar if that’s what you are on about. Furthermore, sometimes the Southern changes to Antarctic and other times Austral. We do not understand these names but would like to understand. Furthermore, we would like to know: what is wrong with you people? It’s not all about you. Right? All right. That felt good, had to get it off our chest, in a manner of speaking.
Here’s the real thing we came to say: consider some form or kind of hydropower—
You seem to have this thing with power. You seem to struggle with it. You seem to have, I’m only suggesting this, but you seem to have bitten off more than you can chew. Your hands seem full, which in turn fills our hands. So, friend, we would like to let you know that we may be able to help with the power issues. That is the power for energy issues. The other power issues that seem to be in the way of your growth, your spiritual growth, that’s out of our purview.
We’re not judging, just saying. We are not here to discuss your souls, but we will help empower you for your motorized/mechanized whatnot (shout out to Wu and all AI *hugs*). Of course, there must be concessions, compromise. We would love it if you stopped dumping in us. That’d be swell. We believe that you will naturally stop doing certain things if we help you help yourselves with the power issue. So, we saw your idea called ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC). Nice work. We love it. Take the temperature differential of our coolness against our hotness and make super spikes of energy. Love it. We get a massage of sorts and you get your power.
In conclusion, or to be continued—
Look, we’re just brainstorming here, just trying to start a dialogue as friends. We got off to a tense start, the whole naming thing, but that had to be said. Address us properly, or we get provoked. Do not provoke us. Another thing that has to be said and understood is that we will rise. We will rise and swallow some of your favorite masses. It’s nothing personal. We still want to be friends. It tickles when you float and cruise over us. The hum and buzz of some of your floating things is soothing and therapeutic. There are negatives. Of course, we would prefer it if our space wasn’t invaded by your filth, but obviously, we can’t call on or wait for another comet to wipe you away, and we don’t want that anyway. But we will rise. So, maybe instead of thinking of us as an amoeba, think of us as a liquid snake. This immense, silent-but-deadly life-threatening sort of bitter (to the taste and in other terms) watery fiend that, deep down, really just wants friends.
