Pollywogs!

I saw this pic on rotten.com a while back, and it was one of those perspective shifts that really stick with you…a guy apparently dining on a very small infant…

It made me think that life is a series of walls or perspectives, you build around yourself to create a reality in which to live. In the same way which one person can view anal sex (for shits and giggles, put anal sex into google image search with the filter off) as an abomination to God and another person a pleasant tool of interpersonal relationships, this man was dining on a baby where 99.999% (or more) of the rest of the human population would see that as so taboo and forbidden as to never have the thought enter their minds…a wall they never even knew existed.

Things like this make me curious about my own point of view, what walls do I have that I haven’t discovered yet? What portholes am I peering out upon a portion of reality?

I always try to keep the idea of personal perspective in my mind, especially in my interaction with other people (as difficult as that is): how you come across to someone is just as dependent upon them as it is upon your own actions, specifically because of the little window they’re looking at you through.

There is a hell of a lot more bottled up (that I either can’t or am not patient enough to squeeze out), thoughts about Christians who view all Muslims as radical terrorists, Muslims who view all Christians as radical terrorists, moderates who view extremists all around them as radical terrorists, pastafarians who view theists as amusing playings…each one a specific wall built to hold back and form a pile ideas into a convenient little filter.

“If you are Christian, Muslim or Jew, You are Wrong.”

“Darwin and Hitler, Satan’s dream team.”

So, how much does it cost to purchase a small tot, and where would you go to make your purchase? I was considering it briefly earlier, and decided Laos or Cambodia felt like appropriate destinations for those intending to dine on human veal. Wild speculation placed the tab at about $10,000. Perhaps less…