vicariously we stand back and bitch but realisticly what can we do as individuals, i look around and see such atrocities and ask myself, what is the
purpose of bitching and discussing if nothing productive comes from it. am i just feeding off such death and despair just to feed. i think this qoute
from the movie waking life can sum up a part of this thought process
"
(Main character walking down the street with a man who is holding a can of gasoline).
Self-destructive man feels completely alienated, utterly alone. He's an outsider to the human community. He thinks to himself, "I must be
insane." What he fails to realize is that society has, just as he does, a vested interest in considerable losses, in catastrophes. These wars,
famines, floods and quakes meet well defined needs. Man wants chaos. In fact, he's got to have it. Depressions, strife, riots, murder, all this
dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the
media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies, but we all know the function of the media has never been to
eliminate the evils of the world. No! Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us
to be passive observers. You got a match? And they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional purely symbolic participatory act of
voting. You want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left? I feel the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfactions into
the socio-political and scientific schemes. Let my own lack of a voice be heard.
(He pours gasoline all over himself and lights himself on fire.)"
the real question is, what can i/you do to change these things and how
Call me closed minded, but I just don't see any use for groups of people like that. They
are the filfth and disease of humanity and should be removed from society and destroyed.
