"Eventually, a democratic world will need a more democratic sense of evil - an understanding of the ordinariness and shallowness of evil."
- Lance Morrow, EVIL: An Investigation.

< vOyA > MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA

Let's just call him....
John Doe....
45....
the "ordinary" man who murdered his wife....
Provoked to strangle her no less....
To stuff her dead body in the boot of his Jag-wah....
clean the bloodied mess in their family home....
and bury her in a lush forestbed....

[Pause]

And then.... well >
eat dinner with the couple's son of course....
Food with kin and time to reminiscence about the
cold dead Jane Doe as if she were still damn well alive....
alive and loving her poet-lover....
away from the staid conservative John....
away from the sex that "repulsed her"....

HEADLINE: Sex taunts 'made me strangle wife'....

Mmmm....
this ordinary man....
in ordinary fucking suburbia....

At least he confessed....
At least there's that.

Moral insanity is a bastard you know....

> kabLe < "Your honor...
I'm sure you can imagine how I felt...
Y'know...
Discovering her infidelity...
I didn't really mean to strangle her...
Really...
I didn't..."

I'll bet there was a mistress...
Waiting...
Somewhere...
In the wings...

"Love, honor & obey...
Till death DO us part...
A license to Murder...
A license for domestic homicide....
Always...

< vOyA > Well.... yes....
marriage with conditions >>>
a confession with conditions....
I mean, John's confessed....
Yes, he strangled Jane....
dumped her body in a shallow grave and ate a damn fine meal for dessert....

His plea to the charge of MURDER?
NOT GUILTY....
Just an "ordinary" man pushed by well....
extraordinary circumstances....
that's the claim.

I just wonder....
these gruesome family crimes....
an horrific pandemic....
of domestic torture and death....

Is it Evil or Insanity?

I mean.... it's true....
how you shape your world...
your perspective > becomes your fate....
and then the law intervenes....
Sanity maybe?
so we hope....

Human behavior....
there's too much death in us you know....
Too much gender terrorism....
hiding out in double-brick dreams houses
nurturing the domesticity of eviL....

The urban sprawl just another grid-locked nightmare....
an intimate war-zone for the hyper-developed fucking world....

We lie to ourselves and then believe in the lie....

Tell me kabLe....
Why are we so scared of self-knowledge?

> kabLe > Because it would shatter the illusion, silly...
It's all about the box we live in...
It's about the bondage of matrimony...
The bondage of some fucked-up-religion...

Mmm...
That leads us to...
A cozy 4x4 co-habituating cell...
Where the endless repetition of existence...
Well...
Becomes the quiet tic of...
Mundaneity and murderous rage...

Premeditated > split second...
There's no difference...

A caged animal...
Is always true to its nature...

{Headline}

"Father And Daughter Asphyxiate From Garden Hose Attached To Exhaust Pipe..."

{Headline}

"Woman Set Alight As She Warmed Her Baby's Bottle..."

{Headline}

"Woman Discovered Estranged Husband Living In Her Roof..."

damn...
"But he seemed...
So...
Normal..."
The collective neurosis now drives an SUV...

< vOyA > It's the nature of....
human nature....
well so we think....
this skew-whiff outlook on life....
in the Great and Creepy Western World....
as if the globe was really ours to divide anyway.

I mean....
arrogance has its place....
don't get me wrong....
but as an overall trait that determines the destiny of many species....
including our own...
Well.... it's just self-deception in the end....
to think this way....
to create with such a level of complexity....
of pre-determination....
the outcome of this world.

Like it's one big dark fucking corner....
a slice of the universe to be conquered and controlled....

Civilization warping our minds....
dragging the human drama through the mud of the ages....
till murder and mayhem become our entertainment....
our small little lives behind closed doors....
in cul-de-sacs and shopping malls....
McDonaldLand....
BrandNameLand....

In those intimate spaces of the mind....
As Mr President Bush once said....
"We are changing the world"....

> kabLe < And still...
The bodycount continues to rise...
Boredom...
Infidelity...
Ageing...
Suburban decay...

HALLMARK-TRUMAN-SHOW-DYSTOPIA
With these three words...
I thee wed...