Coltan Scrivner

You don't want to see it.

That's the human version of looking inside the bag, shrieking and running away.

And yet the other monkeys had to come up and see it because he survived.

The other monkey survived.

He was fine.

And he signaled danger.

So I kind of want to know what that thing is.

And that's a very similar thing to, oh, this thing is terrible.

You don't want to see it.

Now I kind of do.

But because he told you what it was, essentially what he was emphasizing is what you're going to learn from this will not counterbalance how you will feel about it.

Or even better, do a public execution so people can come watch and they can see the power of the state and how, like, what will happen to them.

Yeah, that's exactly what that's doing.

Like, on the wheel.

But also because you have access, you're like, I can Google that.

But if you lived in a world where you couldn't Google it, one of the most common questions I get asked is, are we, because of the easy access to any kind of violent thing you can imagine, like I can type in any violent thing in Google and I could find a video of it probably.

Are we more morbidly curious or is that bad?

I usually say, well, we definitely have more access to it.

And we have access to things that are irrelevant to us.

We have access to things that are happening thousands of miles away that don't pertain to us or anyone we know.