Yes, humans are savages. Not only have we endlessly and tirelessly strove towards perfecting the art of killing each other, we even consider it good fun.
And this is not even talking about other people. A medieval warlord, bloodied from battle, brandishing a sword and still chasing down a few rebels, traitors, whatever – he’d be included in my lelaki idaman list.
I suppose humans are perverse beings. Du Maurier says something to this effect in The King’s General – despite all their protestations, men are simply bred for war and they flourish by it, from it, during it. And in Please, Mr Einstein, Carriere notes that instead of ending civilisations, war drives them. At the heart of things, war is the sole cause for human advancement and technology. Without it, there’s no incentives to be creative and innovative.
But that’s all very solemn and sobering. All I wanted to say was I went to a jousting tournament today.
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