We are things not unlike those studied in Petri dishes, save for the fact that they may be operating on a purely biologically instinctual level, whereas we choose to be many of the things–ways we are. It’s as if our prevailing drive is to infect every other person with our personal experience-distorted ideas, opinions, and values. Can’t we just live and let leave everybody the fuck alone?
The worst diseases imaginable are transmitted through words.
Why is it always the most insanely boring people who seem to want everyone in the world to be exactly like them? Watch The Walking Dead and imagine if it were just zombies. No matter your opinion of the show, I think we can all agree that an hour of watching only the zombies walk around would be a lot more like standing in line at the DMV. So, why are so many of us trying so desperately to turn everyone else into our boring selves as if we have no idea of how much more mundane and terrible life would be if every person were the same.
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Love the quote. Words cut very deeply! Perhaps it is lack of imagination in the general population!
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Thank you! Sounds about right to me.
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Wait… Most people aren’t already zombies?
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Lol. Fair question.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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If you think there’s a lot of self-loathing in the world now, wait until everyone is exactly like me 😔
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Well said! There’s nothing as powerfol as words. Well written 👌
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Thanks so much, Simone. It’s interesting. Sometimes, they hold way too much power, and sometimes, they mean far too little. Again, thanks for checking out the post.
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