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sinister fish update:
contact - Part Two
"The two of them were sitting in Heather's living room, staring at each other..."
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Akaxo update:
New Page - 29/06/09 Act I, Scene I.
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Akaxo has updated with a new page.
sinister fish has updated with part two of the story 'Contact' - which has murders, people! Or a murder.
So far.
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A CALL FOR GUEST ART.
Click the link for details, but the short version is I'd love it if you could send me a Kaspall guest page that I can put up in emergencies over the next four months. In return, I'll be happy to send you an A5 sketch of the character of your choice.

The Secret Knots
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28/06/09
I was watching 'Life' a couple of nights ago (another step in my mission to watch at
least one episode of maybe every detective show ever). And they had that depressing
psychology experiment with the prison set-up - which is number two in my list of
'Most Depressing Psychology Experiments', number one being that one where they get a
bunch of people to fake-electrocute a bunch of other people. So depressing.
Of course, it shouldn't be a surprise that during these experiments people tend to
act like jerks. Because basically what they do is artificially recreate situations
in which we know people have previously acted like jerks. The only reason the
results come as a surprise is that we like to tell ourselves that those people were
bad or weird or anyway not like us – when, actually, the reason those specific
people acted like jerks under those circumstances, is because people in general tend
to act like jerks under those circumstances.
But it got me thinking ... that sometimes we're pretty hard on ourselves. We're so
used to saying that 'Humans are jerks', that I think we sometimes
forget that it's not quite that simple.
These experiments in which we act horribly towards each other ... so what? I mean
that as a genuine question. So what? What does it matter? Who cares?
Well ... we do. We think it matters. We look at the results, and we're upset by
them. But why are we? We don't have to be. There isn't anyone watching (okay, so I'm leaving
religion out of this – you don't have to believe in God to know right from wrong).
People often say that we only do the right thing because we're forced to by laws and
by society. But who made that society? Who made the laws? We did. We made them. And
on average we stick to them. Nobody is making us do that - if everybody in the world
decided tomorrow to just say 'fuck it', and forget all notions of right and wrong,
then no one would stop us. It wouldn't matter - except to ourselves.
I'm not saying that one hell of a lot of terrible things don't happen in the world,
and that there aren't many, many ways in which we could live as better people. But I
am saying that the yard-stick we're measuring ourselves against is one that we
invented, and one that we choose to recognise. We choose to see 'doing the right
thing' as a 'good' target to aim for. And, sometimes, we even hit it. Isn't that
something to be a little proud of?
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