And some seriously described it as an act of heroism when the boy snuck out of the house and did not tell anyone, and flew far, so he could secretly shoot some pictures with those whom he and others had sent into fire he had ignited…
And the other boy, hiding in a hole, he was turned into meat, just because he had not played the right game, he was turned into meat not quite as badly as his sons before though, they had been blown up, cutup then sewn together again, just to be presented to as many as possible. (And it is possible that they have done similar things to others in the past.)
And those waving around swords tend to die of just those. Those with guns in their hands often die with bullets in their heads, and those who like to spread fire… well…
And all of the ones involved used to be kids, back in the day, boys mostly, and they used to play with toys and dream of things that certainly did not include world domination. How old does one have to be to want that? Or is it just the scale that changes… do boys always want to have, to drive, to control, to manipulate…
And many people were killed… and I have no idea how many were crippled… and then there were the hopes, the ideas, the love, the…
I clearly do not know how these things work…
There is a German phrase called, "Das Ding an Sich"
Someone told me it means the thing behind the thing. I see that as the driving force. Like a small blade of grass growing up between two large slabs, it is impelled forward by the Ding an Sich , the who knows what and sometimes it ain't pretty.
when i was a boy, i never considered what consequences might come from my actions.
but, i grew up.
Posted by: griff on March 20, 2004 11:13 AMHello, I do not think that these things do work, or the purpose behind them. There is no purpose, just misguided....
Posted by: T on March 20, 2004 10:00 PMwell, the things work in so far as they show us what not to do... I guess... or how it is possible to make destruction look as if it were just news... : (
Posted by: Witold Riedel on March 21, 2004 11:01 AM