Read this, bitches I'm reading Choke right now by Chuck Palahniuk, I thought this was an interesting passage. It made me think. Of course all credits go to the author and to my amazing girlfriend for having such an excellent taste in books. Well, she has an excellent taste in everything actually! Are you jealous yet? Well you should be!

People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and addressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you buy. On a roller coaster. At a movie. Still, it would always be that kind of faux excitement. You know the dinosaurs aren't going to eat the kids. The test audiences have outvoted any chance of even a major faux disaster. And because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention.
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace.
Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

  ¶ 11/10/2005 12:22:00 PM