h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Maybe "Sadomasochism" isn't the right title, given the obvious sexual context, but if I'm correct, sadomasochism is generally the fact that people naturally take pleasure out of the pain of others. Hence the bondage used in sexual sadomasochism.

Maybe you've come across it before, but there's a site on the net called [URL Removed by moderator] it's chock-full of so-called funny videos. If you haven't seen it, all the videos are tapes of people injuring or killing themselves in gruesome or painful manners. Some are fakes, but the majority are real. The real footage includes an "X-treme" biker trying to make a jump, falling off his bike and landing on his stomach - on a rail; as well as a man jumping from the 20th-storey window of a burning building - to asphalt. Funny? It doesn't seem like it here, but when one watches these videos, it's actually difficult not to laugh. It's the same principle behind such television shows as America's Funniest Videos - a half-hour of 'humourously' narrated tapes that people willingly send in of themselves or their relatives injuring or embarrassing themselves. Again, it's hard not to laugh at America's Funniest Videos. Why do we laugh? It's human nature. It could be an animal instinct, but I doubt it. Does your dog laugh when another dog gets bitten in the crotch by the third dog? Not at all. I personally think that this instinct comes from the fact that the human race, in general, is inherently evil. I know, there are a lot of good people in the world, but in general, humanity is evil. Evil may seem harsh, but to someone who plays role-playing games, it's a distinction between a moral, amoral and immoral character. Humanity is unjust, unfair; whatever you want to say. Any way you put it, humans like to hurt things. We hurt each other, we hurt buildings, we hurt lower life forms. Anything to sastify ourselves, really. The reason I've deduced that humanity introduced evil to the world is simple - does any other species have wars? Bear grudges? Not at all. I'm starting to get off topic here, though. Or am I? I don't know.

It's not that I accost myself when I laugh at AFV. I can't help it, and these people do it willingly. Maybe this whole thing got massively out of hand in the Information Age - Americans somehow feel the need to videotape everything, and see to it that everyone knows. As Billy Corgan said in The Smashing Pumpkins' smash hit, Cash Car Star, "everybody's business is everybody's business."Maybe "Sadomasochism" isn't the right title, given the obvious sexual context, but if I'm correct, sadomasochism is generally the fact that people naturally take pleasure out of the pain of others. Hence the bondage used in sexual sadomasochism.

Maybe you've come across it before, but there's a site on the net called [URL Removed by moderator] it's chock-full of so-called funny videos. If you haven't seen it, all the videos are tapes of people injuring or killing themselves in gruesome or painful manners. Some are fakes, but the majority are real. The real footage includes an "X-treme" biker trying to make a jump, falling off his bike and landing on his stomach - on a rail; as well as a man jumping from the 20th-storey window of a burning building - to asphalt. Funny? It doesn't seem like it here, but when one watches these videos, it's actually difficult not to laugh. It's the same principle behind such television shows as America's Funniest Videos - a half-hour of 'humourously' narrated tapes that people willingly send in of themselves or their relatives injuring or embarrassing themselves. Again, it's hard not to laugh at America's Funniest Videos. Why do we laugh? It's human nature. It could be an animal instinct, but I doubt it. Does your dog laugh when another dog gets bitten in the crotch by the third dog? Not at all. I personally think that this instinct comes from the fact that the human race, in general, is inherently evil. I know, there are a lot of good people in the world, but in general, humanity is evil. Evil may seem harsh, but to someone who plays role-playing games, it's a distinction between a moral, amoral and immoral character. Humanity is unjust, unfair; whatever you want to say. Any way you put it, humans like to hurt things. We hurt each other, we hurt buildings, we hurt lower life forms. Anything to sastify ourselves, really. The reason I've deduced that humanity introduced evil to the world is simple - does any other species have wars? Bear grudges? Not at all. I'm starting to get off topic here, though. Or am I? I don't know.

It's not that I accost myself when I laugh at AFV. I can't help it, and these people do it willingly. Maybe this whole thing got massively out of hand in the Information Age - Americans somehow feel the need to videotape everything, and see to it that everyone knows. As Billy Corgan said in The Smashing Pumpkins' smash hit, Cash Car Star, "everybody's business is everybody's business."

The second thing I'd like to bring up, under this topic, is the commercialisation of the dead. Ever noticed how many books have been written about the dead? There's the story about Princess Di on the day she died; I just saw a book called "The Day John Died", about JFK Junior's last day on earth.. Honestly, people. Let the dead rest. They're dead now. Why are you being so greedy that you think you can make honest money off the pain and suffering of their loved ones? I wonder how much money's been made from Princess Di's unfortunate death. I'd wager that it's in the area of a few million dollars. And probably none of it goes to her estate. Nice. Real nice.

Worst thing is, most people involved in this desecration of the dead call themselves Christian. That's b*****t.