Six and a half (Im)ponderables
Enemy of the Republic over at website Cruel Virgin is a tremendously insightful artist and soul in pain. She has been pondering things she does not understand and her words have been cause for much contemplation on my part of late. She recently posted a list of things she does not understand about the world - each and every one a great subject for a blog post of its very own. Her list includes such things as Reality Shows, Love ("Isn't it really just a big waste of time?") and the relative lack of worth of human versus animal life in the estimations of many people. Please check it out at the link above. I was thinking I would make a short list of my own. Unfortunately I am not as pensive as Enemy and was only able to come up with a fraction of the imponderables cited by Enemy at a fraction of the importance. Nonetheless, here are 6.5 things I don't understand:
1. Why people are so terrified of difference.
2. Why people prefer an explanation that suggests people are "evil" to an understanding of what led a person to behave the way s/he did.
3. Why human beings can not make a comfortable all cotton bra in real women's sizes. (Come to think of it, maybe the makers of bras really are evil.)
4. How to fix a corrupt system after corruption becomes the currency of the social web.
5. How some people can be such exemplary optimistic people in adversity while others crumble and become despondent and cruel under the same circumstances (such as quadraplegia or cancer. Bless you, George, for your equanimity and kindness all the way to the end!)
6. How human beings can think that just because an organism belongs to a "lesser" species and can not speak for itself, it feels no pain and is therefore acceptable to torture it for human whim, beauty or fun.
7. Schadenfreude. (and yet, maybe I do, If bra makers suffer then it's a good thing?...)
This was supposed to be a serious list (and is). I don't know why I am feeling so jovial today, maybe I'd better make an appointment with my doctor.
