when we were young we wanted to be old
because we wanted to feel real pain so we could feel real joy
not just playing power rangers
but actually feeling things
feeling so good it hurts
Friday, February 5, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Opening
I started writing a short story today in between classes. I have had the idea brewing in my head for a few days now. I am starting the story off with a long monologue by one of the two main characters. His name is yet to be determined. I figured I would post this on here instead of emailing it to myself to use at home. This way if anyone happens along it they can tell me what they think.
I am no story teller. I am simply a relentless observer of human nature.
“I have no empathy for mindless day thinkers. The murderers, the arsonist, the thief, and the liar, I have empathy for them. They are the ones who deserve salvation. We have lost the idea of human nature. We have decided to shut it out and replace it with a romanticized view point of who we are and where we come from. Since Adam and Eve were shunned from the garden it was the intention of our maker for humans to be a self regulating force. We lack all qualities of who we were created to be and so we resent ourselves. We have been taught to ignore our urges and go back on all things instinctual. We have outgrown humanity. We are by nature savages after all. Fighting for power, but we have replaced war with words, rifles with rhetoric, and spears with sports. We live in a culture obsessed with sports. Where do you think this fascination comes from? We crave battle. It is in our genes to do battle with others yet we are taught from infancy that fighting is wrong so we allow overgrown men on fields and in stadiums to fight for us. We are jerking-off our brains need for violence with dumbed down pseudo- brutal games, and for some it doesn’t work. So yeah I feel sorry for the guy sitting in the room with a needle labeled death because the man acted on a basic instinct to prove he was fit for survival, that’s just fucking human.”
I am no story teller. I am simply a relentless observer of human nature.
“I have no empathy for mindless day thinkers. The murderers, the arsonist, the thief, and the liar, I have empathy for them. They are the ones who deserve salvation. We have lost the idea of human nature. We have decided to shut it out and replace it with a romanticized view point of who we are and where we come from. Since Adam and Eve were shunned from the garden it was the intention of our maker for humans to be a self regulating force. We lack all qualities of who we were created to be and so we resent ourselves. We have been taught to ignore our urges and go back on all things instinctual. We have outgrown humanity. We are by nature savages after all. Fighting for power, but we have replaced war with words, rifles with rhetoric, and spears with sports. We live in a culture obsessed with sports. Where do you think this fascination comes from? We crave battle. It is in our genes to do battle with others yet we are taught from infancy that fighting is wrong so we allow overgrown men on fields and in stadiums to fight for us. We are jerking-off our brains need for violence with dumbed down pseudo- brutal games, and for some it doesn’t work. So yeah I feel sorry for the guy sitting in the room with a needle labeled death because the man acted on a basic instinct to prove he was fit for survival, that’s just fucking human.”
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