Admit it… Human Nature is a violent one. Everything we do is about one of two things… sometimes both. Sex and Violence. Those two things rule our world. The scriptures say someplace that the “Natural Man is an Enemy of God.” Well, that’s unfortunate because Violence is in our Core Programming.
Our Entertainment… The top money making movies are the ones with gratuitous violence. The more unique the violence, the better. Top movie in the last few months. “The Avengers”. What’s it about? Kicking Ass. Best scene in the whole film – The Hulk grabbing a guy and slamming him around like a rag doll. People cheered. That was some delicious violence wasn’t it? Spiced with humor… oh yeah… we all loved that bit.
You roll past a car crash and you have to look. What do you want to see? What are you looking for? Blood. Gore. The more the better. You are disappointed when you see the driver of a wreck sitting on the side of the rode… Ah man… he’s okay. Dang it… you wanted blood. Admit it. That Morbid Curiosity is in you… You wanted that violence.
We watched confrontations on TV… Jerry Springer is famous for it. Get people together that act like Sodium and Water when mixed. Why do people watch that train wreck? Is it for the story? Or is it for watching the people jump up off the couch and go all Gladiator on the other guy? NASCAR… you don’t like racing all that much. Especially not Round Track stuff. But you watch it for one thing. Those hideously violent wrecks.
Even small children are violent. I watched a small child of some British tourists come through… This kid has never held a firearm, let alone fired one. Highly unlikely being from Essex. Yet the little child, 4 years old? Bragged with pride that he knew how to shoot one of those pistols. One of my own boys… my oldest. When he was born we hid all our guns and didn’t watch any violent TV around him. He had no influences on him for violence. He chewed a Gramcracker into the shape of a pistol, held it like a gun and made Pew Pew Pew noises. How did he know how to do that? He was totally insulated from it? How? I’ll tell you how. It’s in his blood. Not just my Ogreish blood – but our collective human blood. Just like the little Oliver Twist kid… It was in his nature, in his DNA, in his blood. We are violent at the cellular level.
We have Canine Teeth. What are those for? Eating meat. And the best way to get it – to Hunt it. Find the tasty looking animal you want and your Predatory Nature kicks into overdrive and you visit violence upon the Prey.
And we wonder about the Roman Gladiators and how they could fight to the death… and how people could watch that. Blood Sports… Come on. We still watch that stuff. Not only that but those Athletes are paid like they were Royalty. We reward our Gladiators very well. All of our Sports are all metaphors for Conflict. Men run at each other, knocking them down, smashing them while all the time chasing the ball. Forget the ball. That’s not why we do sports or watch sports. Football… it’s for the Crashes, just like NASCAR. Even the NFL puts out a Greatest Hits highlight reel. We celebrate those most violent moments because above all… We thirst for Violence.
We are a violent species. We are, as a whole, brilliant when it comes to Violence. Even the Pacifist type people, deep down inside, want to do violence. They openly call for a new Civil War and mass executions of Conservatives. But there is one thing those guys don’t understand… How to do great violence. Conservatives… We do. We are the ones in general that get out there and Hunt, Shoot, and we train ourselves doing it. We excel at violence. It’s in our nature.
Some guys strive to bury that instinct. But it’s there. Suppressed and locked away under layers of Reason and Understanding. But that isn’t who we are and eventually those people erupt.
Sex is a powerful motivator… but they are mere shadows compared to Violence. With sex… come on, we’ve all seen the girl’s goodies and it’s pretty much all the same… like flowers… different colors sizes and shapes, but they are all pretty. Sex however is only just the reward for Violence done well. Sometimes sex has violence in it as well, because we just can’t get enough of it.
As a Nation, America is the best when it comes to violence. Victors of World Wars. We even had or own Civil War. Other countries can be violent, sure. Murderous and Genocidal… but they don’t compare to the level of Violence that America is capable of. As a Nation we have a great deal of tension built up… muscles taunt and ready to throw a swing. We are just waiting for that bell to ring. We’ve been at “Peace” for too long and these police actions in Afghanistan just isn’t doing it. We need a real enemy that we can duke it out with. We need the Germans to rise up again and get us going. We need an adversary. Someone to really fight.
God help whoever stands up to challenge us. We are ready to throw down.
