Man Seeks Monsters

Man seeks monsters:

 

   What Horrors Await us, is not a statement to dissuade, no it is a statement of foreshadowing of torments brought or hope to find. It is the nature of man to seek monsters, and when none are found to become them in their stead. Our ancestors did walk, and ride, and float upon rafts and boats to all the corners of the Earth seeking monsters. They told tales of men becoming monsters through magic or by simple virtue of death. They found the horrid beasts that would feast upon the flesh of man, finding these beasts mortal however and gaining the tools and knowledge to best them did man invent wild tales of magic to bind to these beasts. Man would see things in the dark and invent wild imaginings to make man’s conquest of the land far greater. Did man also aspire to paint his face upon the heavens, upon the monsters he would worship and control the very facets of nature by a human hand.

 

   Man did then become settled in the distant places only to again seek out monsters. Man sought and found man again, and did man in his fear of others paint the word monster upon all those who were different; and if finding they were not did become the monster to his fellow man. Man searched the seas for monsters, finding mortal beasts instead. Man searched the distant forests, deserts, mountains, rivers, swamps, and frozen wastes where no man has reason to tread. Man found beasts and man, no monsters were to be found. For as man grew, he became far better equipped with knowledge, skepticism, and invention. No beast or fellow man could stand by man’s deep rooted fear of the greater thing, the un-natural thing that should be beyond man’s strength that only demi-gods and saints should match and only a God master. Mankind would search the skies for monsters, that one last venture, finding no monsters man would create his own.

 

   Or so it is told, some of man learned of darker secrets to be found, found where monsters dwell. But monsters are un-natural things either they would ruin the world or the world would ruin them as a body rejects the foreign. Thus did man orchestrate his imaginings, his wild ancestral inventions and bind these thoughts to the un-natural to make them natural and give birth to the monsters that lurk in the darkness. Or was this all a wild imagining as well? Through power found beyond realities veil man finds the monster, the monster is man, man with a horrid face and excuses to do harm, they expected it, and begot their expectations of it. Why did they bother? Man, did man seek to conquer the monsters or become them? Man seeks power and dominance, man is the monster, changing ones shape is only an excuse and a release for the horror within all of man. A monster is just a man without concern for consequences and a self delivered expectation of horror.