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A self-destructive man feels completely
alienated, utterly alone.
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He's an outsider
to the human community.
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He thinks to himself,
"I must be insane."
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What he fails to realize is that
society has, just as he does,
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a vested interest in considerable
losses and catastrophes.
:18:45
These wars, famines, floods
and quakes meet well-defined needs.
:18:54
Man wants chaos.
:18:56
In fact, he's gotta have it.
:18:58
Depression, strife, riots,
murder, all this dread.
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We're irresistibly drawn
to that almost orgiastic state...
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created out of death
and destruction.
:19:09
It's in all of us.
We revel in it.
:19:14
Sure, the media tries to put
a sad face on these things,
:19:17
painting them up
as great human tragedies.
:19:20
But we all know the function
of the media has never been...
:19:22
to eliminate the evils
of the world, no.
:19:25
Their job is to persuade us
to accept those evils and
get used to living with them.
:19:30
The powers that be want us
to be passive observers.
:19:34
Hey, you got a match?
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And they haven't given us
any other options...
:19:41
outside the occasional,
purely symbolic,
:19:44
participatory act
of voting.
:19:47
You want the puppet on the right
or the puppet on the left?
:19:52
I feel that the time has come
to project my own...
:19:55
inadequacies
and dissatisfactions...
:19:57
into the sociopolitical
and scientific schemes,