Forced Perspective

Media is two-sided. It shows you want you should know, not what you need to know. But then the question arises, what do you need to know?

Power

It is the most wonderful thing in the world. Politically, financially, mentally and physically powerful. They hold sway over the over the best of us. Some people are born with the ability to effortlessly acquire it while others are starved of it for life. Some go to extreme lengths for it while still others abhor it. But what is power? How can you say you don't want power? Power is freedom, really. A literal and figurative power to break the chains binding you. Do you not want power if power is the only reason why you can say you don't want power? It is strange. When you have it, you don't realize it, but when you don't have it, you'd do anything for it. Or maybe it's not so strange. We are human after all.

Violence is the Universal Language

Not everyone is capable of the mellower and more compassionate aspects of the human psyche. But everyone knows what a raised fist and a burning urge to hurt feels like. Violence is a survival instinct, a reaction to threat, real or imagined. My point? Speak it wisely for, just like any other language, it identifies who you are and the more you speak the language, the harder it becomes to fall back into your original language. But when all else fails, violence will beckon, a little devil on your shoulder, whispering in your ear.

A Beast or a God

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." -Aristotle

Either way, both are pitiable fates. The beast cannot live with society because it is feared and rejected. A monster is an entity that is not normal. A god, on the other hand, has no need for society. Humans seek connection because it gives them the illusion of being normal, of being connected and accepted by their fellow creatures. Gods are already connected. They are accepted and is acknowledged by all it rules over. But they are utterly alone as well. The world is them. They don't have a home because their whole world is their home. Meanwhile, monsters don't have a home. It's something unnatural and doesn't belong anywhere where the normal exists; it can only go where the normal doesn't exist. The question is, which one do we fear more? The one that's different or the one that has absolute power? 

There is no normal...

There is no normal. There is only the majority. Therefore, everything that mankind has deemed normal can, in fact, change within a moment's notice. Before an apocalypse, the normal life included going to work, watching TV and going to stores to buy supplies. Afterwards, the norm would be to simply survive. Whatever is perceived by the majority is what is normal. So basically, human society is based on the subjectivity of our brains.

Wood, Fire and Ashes

There are two ways people react under pressure. People that are paper burn quickly and become ashes at the first touch of the flames. People that are wood turn black and become harder. Both of the types come from a tree, but whether the person has dropped off of the tree or processed into the paper is determined both by the factors in their lives and their natural temperaments. But there is also a deviant to the wood type. Some of the wood types burn too. The fire would consume them and all they see would be the red of the flames. This could manifest in bitterness, depression or the desire for revenge. And after the wood has burned thoroughly, even the ashes would continue to glow, a remnant of the living thing it had been. Are you the wood or the paper? How would the fire change you?