imagine the world without us. the universe. the trees and the seas and the wind and the rain and the snow and the silence. the beauty of it all.
what a terrible error.
humanity.
hate and selfrighteousness and arrogance.
and knowing it all and understanding it all.
and doing the right thing.
and teaching you a lesson.
and judging you while i do the same.
and selfishness.
and watching while you suffer.
and taking pleasure in it. secretly.
and inflicting that pain and getting even more pleasure.
and hiding it all with such wittiness. behind the curtain of intellectuality and intelligence and education and culture and civilization. while if we were allowed to be free from our social laws (which we created in the first place to hide our ugliness with the veil of civilization and sophistication) we would tie the weak to a chain and degrade them until we reach orgasm.
and again.
until we make them as ugly as we are.
but.werent they ugly to begin with? in that case..
If there is any town this world would be better without this is it. (Dogville)
what a terrible error.
humanity.
hate and selfrighteousness and arrogance.
and knowing it all and understanding it all.
and doing the right thing.
and teaching you a lesson.
and judging you while i do the same.
and selfishness.
and watching while you suffer.
and taking pleasure in it. secretly.
and inflicting that pain and getting even more pleasure.
and hiding it all with such wittiness. behind the curtain of intellectuality and intelligence and education and culture and civilization. while if we were allowed to be free from our social laws (which we created in the first place to hide our ugliness with the veil of civilization and sophistication) we would tie the weak to a chain and degrade them until we reach orgasm.
and again.
until we make them as ugly as we are.
but.werent they ugly to begin with? in that case..
If there is any town this world would be better without this is it. (Dogville)
posted by Laila K at
15:42
6 Comments:
so true so beautifully said and beautifully sad...
I hear you, and imagine with you :)
So true. It's disgusting.
Yes, it is ugly. But a world without those -- a world without us -- is a world in which there is no selflessness, no curiosity, no mercy, no compassion, no empathy, no help, no peace, no love. A deeper hell that would be than the first, if a deeper hell might be.
If there is no echo of these things in us, no trace of their passion and essence, if we cannot aspire to these things, then the world truly is garbage to be exploited while we murder and pillage until we cause our own extinction.
But it is not garbage. You are not garbage. I am not garbage. What makes us any better than the evils we pursue; the evils that pursue us? Is it not because, though these evils condemn us, we choose to care. We choose to believe that we can do right, even if the evidence says otherwise.
It is to this one act of defiant stupidity I cling, even though the whole world seems to prove me wrong: I believe that some small act that strives to break the vileness will leave a mark on some solitary life. That is all I dare hope. . . but I do still hope.
If there was a planetary disaster and no people to call it a disaster, would it still be a disaster?
there will be no one to appreciate this world, and no one to destroy it.
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