Posted by BrianLynch at bgp572008bgs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net on May 06, 2003 at 02:58:58:
In Reply to: I miss hope and security and the idea that humans posted by fluffy on May 06, 2003 at 02:53:19:
: ~are fundamentally GOOD......This all seems so inevitable...but from every angle.
Hell, evil from ANY angle is ugly. Unless it's totally hot evil, created with the intent to seduce one over to the dark side. Some say POWER itself is hot enough. But I promise you, Dubya, go to bed with power and you'll wake up with a head ache and you'll walk bowl-legged.
: I am an artist and tend to idealise and romanticize to create windows to another place.
I'm a comedy writer but some things aren't funny, you know? Sometimes while I'm writing I'll go "why am I wasting my time working when someone on View Askew is unaware that I think war is wrong, people probably are dying to know this" and I stop. One time I dropped my nephew and ran home because I thought of sweet analogy between war and Mary Hart.
:I find this whole affirmation of our idiocy as a race to be depressing.
: And the only thing I can do is try to help the wounded. All the while shaking my headSomeone once sid to me .for every two good humans there are 2000 who aren't.
That's not unlike what my Dad said. "Son", he said, "it's not the war you fuck, it's the fucking face of war that's sunny". And I'm all "Dad, you're drunk".