Monsters
There's a thought I had a while ago, but the writing on that thought never made it pass the "written into a notebook at 2 a.m. while doing laundry" phase. Too many things die at that phase, if I stumble across any good ones I'll blog them. I was reminded of this particular one by the movie "300" which I recommend.
The thought was on the subject of monsters. The modern scientific belief is that there's no such thing as a monsters because all of the traditional monsters don't exist. Dragons, goblins, etc. The more I thought about this the more it bugged me. I don't see why something stops being a monster because we can give it a genus and species and a special on the discovery channel. While there is merit to the idea that we only fear what we don't understand I think that there are plenty of things out there that we understand and should defiantly fear.
Think about bears, but don't think of them in the context of a Zoo or a show, or the cartoons that are always romping around care-a-lot and stealing your pic'a'nic baskets. Think about being in the woods with an 800 pound giant furred creature that can deafen you with a roar and could hurl you ten feet with a swing of it's paw. It's a giant of muscle and terror, and I think that it's defiantly a monster.
Bears aren't even the best example. think about what a Rhinoceros is. A Rhino is a massive beast, with armored skin, and a single giant horn the size of your arm. It stalks the plains, and when it feels threatened it charges at you at high speeds. This is a beast made of armor and rage weighing nearly a ton and hurtling straight at you, horn first. That's certainly a monster.
Even a rhino isn't the best example I could think of. The best, by far, is the Giant Squid. It has six arms, each over 40 feet long, the entire creature is nearly 100 feet long, and can weigh multiple tons. Its arms are capable of latching onto things using an array of suction cups, it can shoot jets of water allowing it to move at incredible speed, and it can spit forth clouds of ink that would blacken the ocean itself. That's at least a monster, if not a full blown nightmare.
The thought was on the subject of monsters. The modern scientific belief is that there's no such thing as a monsters because all of the traditional monsters don't exist. Dragons, goblins, etc. The more I thought about this the more it bugged me. I don't see why something stops being a monster because we can give it a genus and species and a special on the discovery channel. While there is merit to the idea that we only fear what we don't understand I think that there are plenty of things out there that we understand and should defiantly fear.
Think about bears, but don't think of them in the context of a Zoo or a show, or the cartoons that are always romping around care-a-lot and stealing your pic'a'nic baskets. Think about being in the woods with an 800 pound giant furred creature that can deafen you with a roar and could hurl you ten feet with a swing of it's paw. It's a giant of muscle and terror, and I think that it's defiantly a monster.
Bears aren't even the best example. think about what a Rhinoceros is. A Rhino is a massive beast, with armored skin, and a single giant horn the size of your arm. It stalks the plains, and when it feels threatened it charges at you at high speeds. This is a beast made of armor and rage weighing nearly a ton and hurtling straight at you, horn first. That's certainly a monster.
Even a rhino isn't the best example I could think of. The best, by far, is the Giant Squid. It has six arms, each over 40 feet long, the entire creature is nearly 100 feet long, and can weigh multiple tons. Its arms are capable of latching onto things using an array of suction cups, it can shoot jets of water allowing it to move at incredible speed, and it can spit forth clouds of ink that would blacken the ocean itself. That's at least a monster, if not a full blown nightmare.
posted by Max at 2:05 AM
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