Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:01:20 -0500 (EST)
From: jmmcke01@morehead-st.edu
Subject: Re: [Malks] Save me from my generation!!!

> Hold it right there, Tepes. That is NOT true. The human race has plenty of
> merit. Sure, we've got a lot of bad things that we've done. We've fucked up our
> planet big time. We're better at killing ourselves than doing anything else.

These I have very little problem with.  Sure, they're bad, but at least I 
can make some sense out of the urge to break a head or roast some bratwurst.

> Our societies glorify ignorance and submission to the popular voice. We are by
> no means a shining example of how to live.

THIS is what I CAN NOT stand.  Active ignorance, a refusal to perceive, a 
god-damned, ass-backard, fucked-up way to live.  I have never ever 
consciously hated anything in my life.  Now, I am rapidly learning an 
emotion that is new to me.

> But we're not hopeless. We have people among us who notice, who try to change.

We, yes, they, no.  I did not nor have I ever included anyone with half a 
mind in the phrase "human race."  It would be pointless to do so, 
because, as soon as Jose Regular starts to think he is no longer 
"human."  He has become an outcast and a precious commodity with people 
squabbling over who will have the right to "straighten him out."  Hell, I 
even wrote in my Personal Development class that I thought PD should be 
wiped from the face of the earth because it promotes character stasis.  
  Alik, I have always respected your opinions--you know that.  I, 
however, have become adamant on this fact: I (and you, and probably the 
rest of the list members) are hunted.  There are those who actively seek 
to destroy us.  Note that I said actively.  They are not willing to just 
let us vanish quietly, they prefer to stifle us before we make ripples.  
Like any cornered quarry I am become feral and I _will_ bite whatever 
hand reaches for me to save my skin and all that I deem worthy.
  <ears grow pointed along with teeth, a _truly_ promising smile is 
displayed>  Won't you join me?

> Humanity has produced its own forms of beauty, even though they're 
> buried under a mountain of shit. But there's still something worthwhile 
> in there. Eventually, we might see more of the good stuff and less of 
> the by-product.

Gah.  "Humanity."  I have spoken of my weariness and it grows by the 
minute.  As was translated from a language I do not know at the church I 
visited last week, "I am a God who is.  I will not be mocked, I will not 
be forgotten.  I am a God with power and majesty."
  Mayhap it's time we remember our heritage, eh?

--Tepes
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Melior deus mortuus quam hominis ac degero.