Editorial: the unbearable dread of being human by Steve Sic
If you’ve managed to watch our DVD and had a good look at the easter eggs, you will have seen some evidence to support the fact that I actually used to be quite an “angry young man” and that I’ve grown up to be a rather angry grown-up man underneath my good natured and relaxed exterior. I feel that all my life has been spent kicking against society and mankind in general, because I think the whole shebang really really sucks. It used to suck, it still sucks it will keep on sucking.....big time. I’ve always wanted to change it somehow, to make a difference..to feel useful to the planet. You see I don’t like homo sapiens sapiens and most of the stuff they are capable of, I think people are gross, spoiled, uncreative and stupid and the only really positive thing about the race in general is that they will end up killing themselves and if it were up to me it can’t be soon enough.....and here in lies my biggest frustrating paradox. You see I’m (probably) human too...so this means that deep down I really hate myself for what I’m doing to the planet and I detest my own human brain that nags me constantly with all sorts of pointless bullshit that only a selfimportant monkey could make up. I mean, I’m an animal aren’t I?, I should be just thinking about sex, food and a place to sleep in a relatively safe and comfortable environment. But no!, I think about taxes and stupid laws, I worry about leaving the gas on when I leave the house. I berate myself for being lazy and I should vacuum the house more. I’m worried about the fact that I take too many substances that I enjoy but which I’ve been told are BAD for me. My psychological link to human society tells me that I should do this and I shouldn’t do that.....sigh....I almost sound like a real person eh? We are such fecked-up little monkeys living in our own dreamworld made up of horror-stories and misconceptions that justify destruction and death to all other species. Playing with electric toys that spread our confused reality around the globe to other monkeys,we stare at boxes of moving lights and sound thinking that it will make us wiser but they simply make us more scared and turn our brains to slush.We spend most of our resources making really destructive war-weapons to prevent destruction and war! We travel in progressively faster and bigger tin cans belching poison but it’s so busy out there that nobody seems to be getting anywhere. Our own perception of reality and what is important has lost all connection to logic.
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