What Is Injury, Really?
It’s the only thing that means anything in violence, or at least that’s what we’re always saying… But what is injury after all? And is there a simpler way to think of it, relate to it and thereby better relate it to others? We’ll start with the dictionary definition of the word—The Shorter Oxford English […]
Stripping the Fat to Find the Bone: Reason in Violence
Sane, socialized people see resorting to violence as the unique purview of the frustrated simpleton, the enraged id unleashed, and the insane. By saying you are willing to use violence as a survival tool you are also saying (in the layperson’s mind) that you are a card-carrying member of one of those groups. Sane, socialized […]
Filthy Lies
Every now and again something gets stuck in my craw, jammed in there so tight that the only things that are going to get it out are a tire iron and a liberal dose of bile. Here’s some of both for three things that got stuck in there recently—lies I hear people tell themselves, and […]