To be honest, reality is pretty sickening sometimes.
Don't people stop feeling pain sometimes because of severe trauma? Don't psychologists say that the mind has defenses that shut things away that are unpleasant, that many people believe what they want to believe?
It's a hard thing to face up to a world where the only justice that exists is whatever you can protect with your own two hands.
Because that would imply that the lack of utopia is either beyond reach, or due to our own failures.
Don't people stop feeling pain sometimes because of severe trauma? Don't psychologists say that the mind has defenses that shut things away that are unpleasant, that many people believe what they want to believe?
It's a hard thing to face up to a world where the only justice that exists is whatever you can protect with your own two hands.
Because that would imply that the lack of utopia is either beyond reach, or due to our own failures.
"People need heroes. They don't need to know how he died clawing his eyes out, screaming for mercy. The real story would just hurt sales, and dampen the spirits of our customers." - Mythology for Profit