Tradition, Resurrected
0 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Thursday, November 13 at Thursday, November 13, 2008.
There are certain happenings that are burned into our conciousness over thousands of years. Sometimes men get savaged by lions. Sometimes the volcano erupts and swallows its surroundings. Sometimes the rain becomes a flood and washes it all away.
The more advanced we become, the more we pretend these things can no longer happen, that we live in a new age. But then the Earth opens up and swallows a city, or an elephant escapes from the zoo and rampages through a city, and we are all reminded of the primal earthy realities that drive us and occasionally savage us.
These events put us back in touch with that early reasoning that made us what we are: shoot the wild animal. Run away from the vast cracks in the Earth's surface. Fear the lightning.
Anyhow, in this tradition, its good to see that the British Royal Navy is battling pirates off the coast of Africa again. Fearsome men from unfriendly places have been fucking with sailors for thousands of years, navies have been paid to kick their asses for almost as long.
Its a little bit sobering, in the midst of all this craze for Pirates etc, to actually see the "pirate ships" these guys are crusing around in:
And the Navy boat that we kick their asses from.
It's not exactly a fair fight. But pirates don't fight fair, my friends. That's why God invented the airplane.
The more advanced we become, the more we pretend these things can no longer happen, that we live in a new age. But then the Earth opens up and swallows a city, or an elephant escapes from the zoo and rampages through a city, and we are all reminded of the primal earthy realities that drive us and occasionally savage us.
These events put us back in touch with that early reasoning that made us what we are: shoot the wild animal. Run away from the vast cracks in the Earth's surface. Fear the lightning.
Anyhow, in this tradition, its good to see that the British Royal Navy is battling pirates off the coast of Africa again. Fearsome men from unfriendly places have been fucking with sailors for thousands of years, navies have been paid to kick their asses for almost as long.
Its a little bit sobering, in the midst of all this craze for Pirates etc, to actually see the "pirate ships" these guys are crusing around in:
And the Navy boat that we kick their asses from.
It's not exactly a fair fight. But pirates don't fight fair, my friends. That's why God invented the airplane.
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