Barefoot Sock Monkeys

first image: a screenshot of a tumblr post

"@ greelin: being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

@ yves-and-scessernee: with faith and perseverance, one day we will sauté the horrors"

second image: screenshots of tags: "#the simple fact is that everything in life is more bearable when your blood sugar isnt flatlining every 10 minutes #everyone else is doing the equivalent of 2 iced coffees on an empty stomach and thats why they keep dying badly #dunmeshi"

Like, you look at rates of serial killers by country and no one else is even fucking close. If you look at American movies and television that are considered "high culture", it's all stuff like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Godfather, etc. I actually happen to like a lot of those shows, but they are about men who kill other people. You can make the case that "if you idolize [Homelander / Scarface / Patrick Bateman] then you're missing the point" and you wouldn't even be wrong, but my god are there ever a lot of people who do idolize those guys, and that seems worth interrogating.

And it's not recent American culture either. Think of every famous gangster and bank-robber and Old West outlaw that you've ever heard of. Other countries...really don't do that, at least not to the same extent.

This even goes for good people who are generally anti-violence! I would have described myself that way a couple of years back; but last year, totally on accident, I stumbled on a piece of media that made me reevaluate all of my thoughts and feelings about violence and I realized that I too, despite being against violence in general, still saw it as kind of cool, in some weird and twisted way. Like I'd watch action movies and be like "woah, cool move." You know? And I don't think those kinds of feelings are unique to USAmericans, but I would say that USAmericans seem to somehow be bathing in the "violence is cool" kool-aid that other folks are maybe just drinking from time to time. IDK.