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So. You probably think you have it all. Nice mansion, cable, more money than Bill Gates and more advanced technology than Apple. You've even got that whole saving the world martyr complex down pat.
Good for you.
But really, you think all this do good shit is gonna work? All of you could sacrifice yourselves for the Great and Noble cause of Protecting Mankind From Themselves, but in the end it's not going to matter. In the same way, some of you have bothered asking me why I left, or why I'm not back. And yeah, I'll be the first to admit there are some things about the mansion I miss, some more than others, but I am no-one's bitch and I am not about to run along because someone calls me. Especially when I don't think it'd mean shit anyway.
So this is why I left. Why I'm not coming back is a completely different story. (No, I'm not putting it in an LJ cut. Fuck the LJ cut.)
Humans tend to hate that which they fear, or can't understand. They define anything different as suspicious, hostile or threating to their own way of life. Ask any queer or black or woman, really. I don't need to go into a long and potted history of man's inhumanity to man. It's a cycle. Can't be broken. (And yeah, I learnt that in World History 101 - thanks Storm.) So really, talking about peace is nice, and good and wonderful and all but sitting around and making daisy chains while waiting for Heaven on earth to descend is just gonna leave you disappointed.
And probably pushing up those daisies, as the deadhead normals will take one look at our pacifism and finish the job Stryker started.
I mean, you really think he's the only normal out there who's got nothing better to do than hate? Fuck it, we have the right - I have the right - to protect myself, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. In some ways, this is like freaking Anthropology in the making: Neanderthals were here before Homo Sapiens, but Homo Sapiens wiped them out because they could better adapt to their environment, seek out new sources of food, build, learn, whatever. What's the fucking difference here? Homo Sapiens is history; we might as well let them be history and fade into the past. No-one's going to shed any tears. We're better than they are; we can adapt the environment and us, do things that seem like magic and acts of God to them.
This is our world as much as it theirs, no, more. Because we're the ones who're gonna be here when they've all died, and if they die now at least they won't take that many of us out with them.
Good for you.
But really, you think all this do good shit is gonna work? All of you could sacrifice yourselves for the Great and Noble cause of Protecting Mankind From Themselves, but in the end it's not going to matter. In the same way, some of you have bothered asking me why I left, or why I'm not back. And yeah, I'll be the first to admit there are some things about the mansion I miss, some more than others, but I am no-one's bitch and I am not about to run along because someone calls me. Especially when I don't think it'd mean shit anyway.
So this is why I left. Why I'm not coming back is a completely different story. (No, I'm not putting it in an LJ cut. Fuck the LJ cut.)
Humans tend to hate that which they fear, or can't understand. They define anything different as suspicious, hostile or threating to their own way of life. Ask any queer or black or woman, really. I don't need to go into a long and potted history of man's inhumanity to man. It's a cycle. Can't be broken. (And yeah, I learnt that in World History 101 - thanks Storm.) So really, talking about peace is nice, and good and wonderful and all but sitting around and making daisy chains while waiting for Heaven on earth to descend is just gonna leave you disappointed.
And probably pushing up those daisies, as the deadhead normals will take one look at our pacifism and finish the job Stryker started.
I mean, you really think he's the only normal out there who's got nothing better to do than hate? Fuck it, we have the right - I have the right - to protect myself, and that's exactly what I'm going to do. In some ways, this is like freaking Anthropology in the making: Neanderthals were here before Homo Sapiens, but Homo Sapiens wiped them out because they could better adapt to their environment, seek out new sources of food, build, learn, whatever. What's the fucking difference here? Homo Sapiens is history; we might as well let them be history and fade into the past. No-one's going to shed any tears. We're better than they are; we can adapt the environment and us, do things that seem like magic and acts of God to them.
This is our world as much as it theirs, no, more. Because we're the ones who're gonna be here when they've all died, and if they die now at least they won't take that many of us out with them.
