the only reason why we continue to be surprised by the ways of people is because we persist in believing or expecting something, even if we know at least 5 different examples where these beliefs have proven false.
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong... It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual. Because if this was not the case, then human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing big stupid grins, similar to those worn by certain remote tribesmen who occasionally get raided by the authorities and have the contents of their plastic greenhouses very seriously inspected.
- small gods, terry pratchett
perhaps nine-tenths of the brain not only turns the miraculous into the mundane, but also transforms what could possibly be the norm into the anomalous. the only 'rational' part of our body is dedicated to the wholly irrational act of deliberate omission so we hurt and grieve when we are proven wrong time and time again.
why else then would we be confused and angry when the leaders of an impoverished african country demand that their palms be greased before they distribute free aids medication from a foreign pharmaceutical company? why are we surprised by the venomous and small-minded actions a person carries out against someone he once loved enough to get married to?
should i be considered lucky that i still can believe in the goodness of people? that i needn't constantly weigh people up because this is what i expect of them? it appears that after spending several years on building my defense walls, i am still first name bleeding heart last name. i still wouldn't trust some people as far as i could throw them though, not all that stupid.
an absolutely gorgeous song, loving the wall of sound effect.
our day will come.
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