Murphy
cat malogen
Part of pain is avoidance - we can avoid the worst elements of life’s blows but we never forget, you can only reframe it to truly own it. There’s a photo @version posted of Okamura’s taken immediately after a shooting, part ghoulish shadow, part splatter you’d more likely associate with god in the pavements bird mess, except it’s too messy, too dark and viscous even in b&w to be anything other than a murder scene
And you peer into your tiny screen-frame of reference with its surface distance, of velocities inherent with munitions, of soft tissue exploding into a pink mist and it looks right back at you. An incredibly poignant image where you can never again be the person who hadn’t seen the image prior to witnessing
Roll this idea out over every human life since subconscious drives evolved into language, where wisdom accumulated but constant change inevitably wiped ‘human’ libraries away. Hunter-gatherer to farmers to smiths. Add not being an apex predator until quite recently in our genetic journey too. We’re not designed to be entirely relaxed. Know your exits. How is x carrying themselves? Then bring a newborn baby into the picture, as an example. Crying loudly. Drawing attention to predators, alerting your amygdala’s hard -wired fire alarm. No Tardis exists to influence time to a degree where you can depart back to the childless garden prior to a lustful evening the previous summer
And you peer into your tiny screen-frame of reference with its surface distance, of velocities inherent with munitions, of soft tissue exploding into a pink mist and it looks right back at you. An incredibly poignant image where you can never again be the person who hadn’t seen the image prior to witnessing
Roll this idea out over every human life since subconscious drives evolved into language, where wisdom accumulated but constant change inevitably wiped ‘human’ libraries away. Hunter-gatherer to farmers to smiths. Add not being an apex predator until quite recently in our genetic journey too. We’re not designed to be entirely relaxed. Know your exits. How is x carrying themselves? Then bring a newborn baby into the picture, as an example. Crying loudly. Drawing attention to predators, alerting your amygdala’s hard -wired fire alarm. No Tardis exists to influence time to a degree where you can depart back to the childless garden prior to a lustful evening the previous summer