I have noticed that we as humans are a very deprecating race. It seems that we feel we have to destroy or tarnish something in order to claim it as our own. Is our own carnal hubris so fragile that we must destroy something in order to exert ourselves over it? Think about this; time and time again across time, culture, religion, etc. we damage something in order to claim it as our own. When explorers traveled to new lands they would thrust their counties flag into the countryside to claim it as theirs; same with mountain climbers who are first to reach the peak. Let’s narrow our focus to even just a personal level. Is it not the same thing when a man claim’s a woman’s virginity; or when a graffiti artist tags a building? When it snows and there is a freshly laid blanket on the ground why do we have this manic urge to be the first on to put our prints in it?
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