Existentialist worms
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:17 pm
Not the "good versus evil" bit again!?! Don't humans ever write about anything else?
The whole notions of "good"--things that are likeable--and "evil"--things that are unlikeable--are so subjective and debatable that their existence outside the context of human social mores is debatable. I can hardly believe that they are the two fundamental driving forces of the whole universe.
Case in point--see the previous thread postulating writing or making movies about Nazi werewolves. Nazis are a good example of evil, and yet when you break things down to the level of the individual person, we find that a great many were drawn in gradually, and that the same persons who brutally murdered whole races of people could have instead been ordinary citizens contributing to a happy and productive society (if only Adolf had gotten into that art school--but his work was too harsh, and he "had trouble with the human form"--how's that for an understatement?)--it opens up a huge can of existentialist worms.
Existentialist worms... sure, the early bird gets them, but does it really matter? OK, it's late. I'm going to bed. Good night.
The whole notions of "good"--things that are likeable--and "evil"--things that are unlikeable--are so subjective and debatable that their existence outside the context of human social mores is debatable. I can hardly believe that they are the two fundamental driving forces of the whole universe.
Case in point--see the previous thread postulating writing or making movies about Nazi werewolves. Nazis are a good example of evil, and yet when you break things down to the level of the individual person, we find that a great many were drawn in gradually, and that the same persons who brutally murdered whole races of people could have instead been ordinary citizens contributing to a happy and productive society (if only Adolf had gotten into that art school--but his work was too harsh, and he "had trouble with the human form"--how's that for an understatement?)--it opens up a huge can of existentialist worms.
Existentialist worms... sure, the early bird gets them, but does it really matter? OK, it's late. I'm going to bed. Good night.