What I have written, I have written.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Katherine Anne Porter

To discuss:

“Mankind has always built a little more than he has hitherto been able or willing to destroy; got more children than he has been able to kill; invented more laws and customs than he had any intention of observing; founded more religions than he was able to practice or even believe in; made in general many more promises than he could keep; and has been known more than once to commit suicide through mere fear of death.” – Katherine Anne Porter

It is an admirable attempt of man to assign a sort of importance to life. Amid chaos, death, and destruction we attempt to establish coherency. We will always develop more than we can destroy, because we have a predisposition to fear destruction. As long as man has that tendency, there will always be a pull toward life and an inward desire to create, even when everything else seems to shout contradictions
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So the lyrics in Rent are true, "The opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation."

Ashley