Barbarism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must ultimately triumph.
-Robert E. Howard
I came across this statement, and after some contemplation on the matter, I believe it to be true to an extent. Civilization is about rules and order, but yet nature strives for simplicity. We strive to build things up, and we prop up new rules on the still living bones of the old ones, and we continue to do this without the realization that all it takes is for one too many to be made and the whole rotting mass will come tumbling down. Time after time has shown that mankind will revert to the most primal state possible as soon as the system collapses. (take the looting after the hurricanes as an example) The rules don't serve the majority of people- they only distill power into the hands of the richer, those who would contribute nothing and would still have the audacity to claim things run on a mertiocratic system. The people who make the mazes of our laws build in all their little tricks and trap doors so that the things that limit people and conduct will have a way to circumvent them. I think everyone has, in times of a sort of primal clarity, desired for things to be simpler, for these chains of 'civilization' to be sloughed off so we can rule our own destiny again, and not be a serf bound by the clock.
-Robert E. Howard
I came across this statement, and after some contemplation on the matter, I believe it to be true to an extent. Civilization is about rules and order, but yet nature strives for simplicity. We strive to build things up, and we prop up new rules on the still living bones of the old ones, and we continue to do this without the realization that all it takes is for one too many to be made and the whole rotting mass will come tumbling down. Time after time has shown that mankind will revert to the most primal state possible as soon as the system collapses. (take the looting after the hurricanes as an example) The rules don't serve the majority of people- they only distill power into the hands of the richer, those who would contribute nothing and would still have the audacity to claim things run on a mertiocratic system. The people who make the mazes of our laws build in all their little tricks and trap doors so that the things that limit people and conduct will have a way to circumvent them. I think everyone has, in times of a sort of primal clarity, desired for things to be simpler, for these chains of 'civilization' to be sloughed off so we can rule our own destiny again, and not be a serf bound by the clock.
At least I've filled my quota of pseudo-intellectual comments for the week.