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The missed point
Sep. 29th, 2009 07:27 pm"You do not understand us. You dare not.
"You look at us, you see our teeth and our eyes, and you say: monsters. You see us hunt, kill, chase down our prey and toy with it, and you tell yourselves: inhuman. And you see us dressing up, striking our poses, making our grand philosophical gestures, and you say: pretence.
"But you miss the point. The poses, the philosophy, the games to beguile the long perspective of time...this is our true nature. When we hunt, when we torment, when we kill and feed...that is when we are most human. That is when we come closest to the nature of that which we were. But you dare not face that truth.
"You put us in front of a mirror, and you see no reflection. But that is not because we have none. It is because you dare not face the fact that our reflection...is just like yours."
"You look at us, you see our teeth and our eyes, and you say: monsters. You see us hunt, kill, chase down our prey and toy with it, and you tell yourselves: inhuman. And you see us dressing up, striking our poses, making our grand philosophical gestures, and you say: pretence.
"But you miss the point. The poses, the philosophy, the games to beguile the long perspective of time...this is our true nature. When we hunt, when we torment, when we kill and feed...that is when we are most human. That is when we come closest to the nature of that which we were. But you dare not face that truth.
"You put us in front of a mirror, and you see no reflection. But that is not because we have none. It is because you dare not face the fact that our reflection...is just like yours."