the mercy seat.
sweet sweat from the nightmare set.
Our world is dark. Our species has committed horrible atrocities against itself, and has since time out of mind.
On the topic of heroes….
This man acknowledged and despaired constantly of the disgusting behavior of our species. The ridiculous dogmatic hatred, stupidity, and violence of our world.
He was astoundingly creative. He was present for some of the worst acts our species is capable of.
He was not neccessarily a happy man. This man tried to kill himself on at least one occasion.
But he believed.
He knew, more than anything in the world, that laughter and sympathy, not moralizing and hatred, could be our salvation.
He was a funny, funny man. And he was usually right.
He was a humanist; he believed in nothing but the power of the human spirit.
This man, too, was one of my heroes.
Someone recently mocked me for nearly crying when he died.
Which just goes to show that we have not yet learned our lesson.
