November 15, 2005

The hearstopping cruelty of the human brain

Been watching endless documentaries to find footage and inspiration for a music video. We're going for a chaos and war theme, and watching hours of human madness is making me a little depressed. Saw documentaries about rape, about nuclear disasters, about war, about conspiracies, assassinations, genocide, ..... and oh my God, were Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett ever right when they wrote:

...nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff they [humans] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it...They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.


I don't like humanity at the moment. Why doesn't everyone just sit the fuck down and think for a change. No more summits, no negotiations, nothing... let's all sit in a circle and just think for a fucking moment.

Eventually they'd all realise that nothing they do makes any sense, right? ..... right???