How to Get Lost in Humanity, Chapter LVII, Version MLLXXXIIIV (Revision XXIII)

This is a strange and bewildered world we live in, huh? We have religious figureheads syphoning righteous dollar bills, politicians bending the realms of verbal reality, sport coaches with their 'spirit fingers', and all the while trying to hold on a normal funtioning life.

Riiiiiiight.

It's kinda funny like that. If you take a look from the psychological perspective of the human mind, we are mentally wired to find attraction to those that we have the best chance with so that we can reproduce and continue our species! If you dive into the anatomy and physiology of the human body, we are designed to procreate and sustain ourselves. So, it only makes sense that our brains are wired with our body to function for one single purpose, yes?

So... I guess canabalism is a bad form of population control, huh? No....that's too barbaric and inhuman. Let's go to the other more civil and humane version of this: War! Yes it's truely fasinating... the concept of taking each others lives so willingfully. We are created with violence in our blood, ever since recorded documentation exsisted on rocks with clay art, so did the art of war and it's many faucets in life. Men facilitate battle through fists and muscle. Women are exactly the same in concept, to the expection of one key difference: They commit war with their words rather than fists. That's deadly in a different and respected regard. Unlike normal animalistic behaviors, we tend to takes lives and commit war in the pursuit of luxery in most cases. Women, riches, and land are the top three (and pretty much only) reasons we go to war in the first place. The only similarity between us and everything else that draws breath is the concept of defending a mate. But even then, animals don't amass fellow animals and kill each other over one mate. Usually in an animal bout, only three things are going to happen. Walk away fine, gimp with an injury, or death. They really don't have options like we do. They think "If I get into a fight, and I get hurt, I might not be able to hunt for my own food, and starve to death. I'll just try to scare him off with a shout (or bark, or puff yourself bigger than you are... you get the point). However, WE love to defend our own pride or possesions over the stake of human slaughter. I think we secretely love to kill one another... we've only been doing since the dawn of time, so it's logical to think that. Self-inflicting wounds... we are addicted to the pain we claim to suffer from.

Hmm... it's the existence of pain that we live. The ever present aura of death that motivates us to struggle on. There are many forms of violence that do not need to deal physical punishment. Violence!! It's in us! We pillage, plunder, burn sacrifices, kill in the random, kill in the name of *Insert your religious god here*, gand beatings... I can give many different examples, and I'm sure you're thinking of a few on your own. In the end, after all has been said and done, lies one final question in the realm of destruction that humans constantly strive to answer:

Can my violence dominate yours?

"If I was to sink my teeth into your eye right now, would you be able to stop me before I blinded you?

-Warden (Shutter Island-2009)