Dance in the Full Moon

Dance in the Full Moon

O, the Frailty of Memory

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

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I'm Deathmongerer, and I self-identify as evil. It's not common to find someone like me, because we're always out fighting people who self-identify as good. We're too busy. I just wish someone would write a book showing that the goody two-shoes guys out there are human, too.

6 comments:

  1. anelles47February 1, 2012 at 9:25 PM

    Doofens(h)mirtz? Dr. Horrible? Gru? Megamind? Elphaba?

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  2. Robby Van ArsdaleFebruary 2, 2012 at 9:49 PM

    I don't know. It's just that all the best villains are "human," like Grendel and The Monarch. What about heroes? Captain America isn't very "human."

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  3. anelles47February 3, 2012 at 6:33 AM

    Truth. I don't know if this makes any sense, but I think we . . . hmm. I've never tried to word this before. We get this idea into our heads that in order to do something truly good, we have to be completely without sin, completely perfect, and this sort of makes sense because since the beginning of time, more or less, we've known that someone, somewhere, some human being would save us all from this horrid mess of ours.

    And we know that he has to be more than human to save us, right, because there can only be one, and that one is the Son of God, and so for what seemed like forever the heroes were half-gods and demigods and 2/3rds gods because they were so perfect they screwed up math but then, see, they . . . aren't . . . better than us.

    They have physical power. They're just regular human guys who happen to have the ability to violence. 'Cause, you know, people make mistakes and all, but they're basically good at heart, right, and if only I had the power to make the world stand up and listen, I could totally make it a better place.

    Everyone wants to be a hero ("in their own way"). Everybody wants to be understood. Every person I've ever met wants to be accepted, told that despite their flaws, they're basically good enough, worthwhile.

    And the truly good . . . well, it destroys what is bad. It makes the things around it look worse than they look when they're with other half- and quarter-goods. So if we're to associate with a truly good hero, we have to hate him because the evil parts of ourselves know instinctively that the truly good wants to kill us (it does) and so clearly the good must be . . . evil. And so we find ourselves torn between wanting good and wanting evil because obviously good is right, but we are bent and not good and therefore must die but we don't want to die (because then we'd be dead).

    So in the end we go for the compromise, and the only side that compromises is the not-good side. Because, hey, then we don't have to die or make a change in any way.

    This has been "Stream of Consciousness with Janelle." Tune in in a few hours to hear Janelle sing . . . A SILLY SONG! (Punctuated phonetically by strategic coughing.)

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  4. anelles47February 3, 2012 at 12:03 PM

    I think most people are a little outraged that they weren't the chosen one, that they aren't God, the Son of God, because, well, aren't we good enough?

    Blargh, I still can't quite words.

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  5. Robby Van ArsdaleFebruary 5, 2012 at 3:59 PM

    That seems obvious. I very rarely words when I really need to.

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  6. anelles47February 5, 2012 at 6:49 PM

    Yeah, pretty much everything I say is obvious, which makes me think I needn't say it. You always words better than you think, if only people listened.

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