![[Elmyra_Duff.webp|300]] From this perspective, humanity shares a striking resemblance with ***Elmyra Duff***. Elmyra is a cartoon character from the Warner Bros. television series Tiny Toon Adventures. She is a cute, redheaded girl who lives in a nice, suburban home and attends Acme Looniversity. She serves as the school nurse and loves animals above all. In her pleated skirt, white socks, and black shoes, she stalks the neighbourhood looking for animals. When she encounters one, she picks it up and expresses her love by hugging it. Tight. Tighter. And tighter. Until life starts to drain out of the creature. Of course, this is not love. It is an obsession coupled with a pathological disregard for life. This is reflected in the many abandoned pet toys, doghouses, and kitty baskets strewn across Elmyra’s ghostly back yard. Elmyra wears a light blue bow in her hair. If you look close, you see that it is held together in the middle by a gerbil’s skull. I am haunted by the image of humanity as Elmyra. So obsessed with certainty, that we drain life from all that which we encounter. I am terrified by our craving for control and prediction, profit and growth. Our back yard strewn with decaying toys and abandoned houses. I am horrified by the ceremonial headgear we wear in this ritual of destruction. A crown adorned with the symbol of our lasting legacy on this planet: the skull. [[Casting|Next page]]