It is a simple truth, which I believe holds the key to redemption. We as individuals, and as a worldwide community, do little other than destroy all we purvey. This seems an extreme statement, but the evidence is in front of you everyday. If you are unfamiliar with the crowding of forests and wildlife habitats due to humanity's ever-expanding territorial sprawl you are a fool. Think of all the killing we do, whether through crime, war, neglect, poaching, slaughter, or simply smashing bugs that we don't like. The next time you sit down at a meal, look at the food before you. Smell it. It is beautiful and smells delicious doesn't it? What will it look and smell like when you are done with it? Not so pretty. Eating, something we must do to live, arguably the basis of our existence, is nothing more than appropriation via destruction, as Sartre once put it.
My point here is that we are evil, and there is no escaping it. Maybe being evil is the reason for living though. Maybe if we weren't evil, if we were born whole and perfect with nothing but nutty-goodness inside of us, this life would lose meaning. Maybe, if we were born as sheep, defenseless and delicious, we wouldn't have the chance, the tools, the weapons to protect ourselves from the other evil things in the world. I think life might be a game, might be more than a game. Life might be a puzzle where we must figure out how to use our evilness to accomplish something better, to smite other evil, to hold aloft the few and precious pieces of purity in this world.
Maybe this is just,
The Way I See Things.
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