Of Watchmen and the human condition

It's easy to forget that we are suffocating. Suffocating ourselves. Society is like one of those plastic bags that covers children's toys. We see the warnings, yet we stick our head in anyway, unable to understand why we are suffocating.

I walked into a showing of Watchmen to have two women publicly start a verbal conflict outside the theater. The human condition has never seemed more debased. It wasn't a fight about anything meaningful, but one of the spiteful conditions that defines humanity.

The idea of always being right. We humans cannot fathom being wrong, so we cultivate all sorts of situations to make us seem right. The thought that everyone might be wrong, or everyone might be right is just so indescribably alien to most people in our society that it cannot propagate. A meme that's rings true with Night Owl's impotency. Why does society allow patterns like this to exist?

Because society is a masochist.