Psycopathic Entertainment

People that find this entertaining are missing a very large piece of what makes us human. Or maybe the sad truth is that we are watching the Jungian Shadow of our moral selves dance across the blood spattered arena...and therefore this is in fact a very large piece of what IS human. Society sublimates this murderous rage and "civilizes" it, but it doesn't go away. It waits festering behind the anger and resentment that must be hidden if one wishes to participate in the communal enterprise of Nationalism. Thus filtered, murder can re-emerge sanitized and made coherent by conflicts waged en masse rather than by the Individual. Seen through this lens, the institution of War is a Bloodsport engaged in by world leaders in order to satisfy their own sense of potency and to act as living Gods. The thrill of power and the intense high of self-satisfaction that must come from being able to-on a whim-order several thousands of American soldiers to their inevitable and pointless death must be a rush not even matched by the pleasure of watching animals brutally maim and murder themselves. Why else would politicians put up with so much bullshit in order to secure what is an otherwise very unenviable job? Who are the real monsters in our society? You won't always find them in dark smoky basements, sometimes they'll be hiding in plain sight, comfortably smug and with complete lack of conscience, holding court from within in an expansive suite of regal offices overlooking a carefully manicured green lawn. The dancing shadows of horror are in fact cast by the same man who condemns the darkness of terror.