Molecules Within The Beast

　　He sighed and shook his head. "No, I do not think that," he said, in a voice which was mine but deeper, somehow, and flatter. "I do not see a separation. I have lived with a human for only a few days, but I have seen violence and hypocrisy that runs through this species."

　　"Yes, but there is good in them. A lot of good."

　　"No. I don't see it. They can sit and watch dead human bodies on TV screens and feel nothing at all."

　　"That's how I saw it at first, but-"

　　"They can drive thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children."

　　"Yes, there is a bad logic here, I agree with you, yet I truly believe-"

　　He wasn't listening. He stood up now, state at me with determined eyes as he paced the room and delivered his speech. "They believe God is always on their side, even if their side is at odds with the rest of their species. They have no way of coming to terms with what are, biologically, the most import events that happen to them - procreation and death. They pretend to know that money can't buy happiness, yet they would choose money every time. They celebrate mediocrity at every available opportunity and love to see other's misfortune. They have lived on this planet for over a hundred thousand generations and yet they still have no idea about who they really are or how they should really live. In fact, they know less now than they once did."

　　"You're right, but don't you think there is something beautiful in these contradictions, something mysterious?"

　　"No. No, I do not. What I think is that their violence will has helped them dominate the world and 'civilize' it, but now there is nowhere left for them to go, and so the human world has turned in on itself. It is a monster that feats on its own hands. And still they do not see the monster, or if they do, they do not see that they are inside it, molecules within the beast."

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The Humans, P248-249
Matt Haig
ISBN 978-0-85786-876-3