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« on: September 14, 2011, 10:08:50 pm »
Once upon a time. (That's how all stories are supposed to start, isn't it, children?) Once upon a time, there was a woman. Some say she was the first. Some say she was created by the gods as a punishment upon mankind. It si said that the gods loaded her down wight gifts, but nobody seems to know what most of those gifts were. Some say they were gifts to "seduce" men, but then, theo nes telling the story are mostly men, and hearing a man blame women for his own weakness is hardly anything new, is it? (Yeah, women do it, too, but how often do you hear that a MAN is the root of all evil in the world?)
Anyway, however she got it, this particular woman had one particular gift. It was given to her, but some asshat told her, "It's all yours, but, whatever you do, don't open the damn thing."
Yeah, like THAT was going to work out. Give any monkey a box, sooner or later, it's going to get opened. Tell that monkey NOT to open it, and the lid will be off the minute your back is turned.
(I know, you've heard the story. Shut up and listen, or fuck off.)
So, eventually, she opened it. She pulled the lid off the jar, or box, or whatever it was, and all the evils in the world flew out. The little ones were first. "Light" evil. Jaywalking in front of oncoming traffic and making you slam on the brakes. Talking in the movie theater. Giving away spoilers for the book you haven't read, yet. The petty shit that drives you buggy. Then bigger stuff, and bigger. By the time the woman got her shit together enough to slam the lid back on, some pretty big shit was out in the world. Rape, murder, the big guns.
Then she heard a voice from the box. It was beautiful, and begged for her to let it out, too. So, like any decent horror story, the stupid bimbo opened the box and let out the last thing.
According to the story, that last thing was "Hope." The story says it got shoved in the box to make all that evil bearable, sort of an apology, "Oops, we let her turn the world to shit, here, this will make it so you don't jump off the nearest bridge."
Bullshit.
Here's the truth. What settles to the bottom of a big box of evil isn't bright and shiny. Oh, it was hope, all right. It's that beautiful voice that whispers in your ear that everything is going to be fine and wonderful. You've heard it.
"Just work harder, you'll get that promotion you deserve, it won't go to the chick down the hall just because she's blowing the boss. She doesn't actually do any WORK around here..."
"Keep on buying those lottery tickets, sooner or later ONE of them will hit, and you can stop eating Ramen noodles."
"If you just have the house PERFECT, and don't say anything to make him angry, he won't hit you any more."
"Love him enough, love him HARD enough, and he'll feel the same way. Just keep trying, never mind anybody else."
You've heard it.
It's full of shit... And sometimes, it's the biggest fucking evil of them all.
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