Monday, February 16, 2009
a bedtime story
My dad used to tell me this story about Genghis Khan when I was younger. I don't know what this story proves, but I based a lot of my life choices on the idea behind this story, and I think I turned out okay. Okay, not normal. Anyways, dude was traveling with his soldiers when he bumped into a mother and her baby, struggling to climb a mountain. She told Genghis she was having trouble getting to the other side. So you know what the fuck what he did? He killed her baby. Then left. Just cuz he saw the baby as the burden of the mother. That's fuckin intense. Figure out the lesson.
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The sad reality is that this makes complete sense. If you think about evolution in terms of real basic terms of strong survive then the child is weak and must be eradicated from society. Or at least left to fend for their own.
ReplyDeleteYou can kind of see it in many impoverished areas around the world where the children aren't killed but discarded by parents. They are the wayside.
I like it though.