Sometimes I wonder about people. Have we just hit that point where we've become so technologically advanced that we no longer have a proper niche on this planet? Will we forever increase our niche until we cause our own destruction?
What leads someone to do terrible things to people?
I think that Kristin put it right: "here's a comment on how to live your life: always be kind, because you never want to be the person whose death is being celebrated world wide."
Sometimes I just want to disappear from what society expects of me and eke out a simple existence somewhere on a boat or somewhere isolated. Or maybe bouncing from one place to another, I'll find a way of avoiding the insanity of this world by immersing myself in it.
I think Manda's got it right when she says that you can't have good in this world without evil. And I understand that everything has its natural opposite, and that's the way the universe works, but sometimes I'm baffled by it.
So
If you can't stand in place, you can't tell who is walking away, from who remains, who stays, who stays, who stays. And there are no tears, just pity and fear. And a vast ravine, right in between. - Death Cab for Cutie
Just reading an article about the mob on the Boston Common last night, and thought this was relevant to Kristin's quote~
ReplyDelete"David, a science student at Boston University wanted to celebrate -- but added that he wasn't completely enamored with the moment. "The only thing that can bring the United States together at a time like this, is the death of another human being. It's not winning a war, it's not fixing a budget crisis, its not the disaster that just happened with the tornados in the South. It's the death of another human being. And that is the only thing that has taken everybody and brought them in the streets to rejoice.""
Why can't things be like WWII, where everyone rushes into the streets when the war is actually finished? ):
(Not that this war is anything like WWII...)