The Good, The Bad, and The Lonely
Placed in total isolation where our moral positions and decisions are not taken into account by those around us, we tend to draw a particularly sharp line between the good "others" and the bad "others", while placing all of them inside a circle to which we neither can, nor - in time - wish to, gain admission. Innocence then is defined as the tendency of the "others" to keep as much out of the way of such strict judgmentalism as possible, while we are left with no choice but to look upon a fading world - as in a flame that gradually cools - and to adopt the role of surrogate good and bad people in place of all those whose actions are in danger of becoming increasingly inconsequential to our own existence.
posted by Danial @ 05:44
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