Boy: "Dad?" "What are these?"

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Boy:
"Dad?"
"What are these?"
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Man:
"These?"
"These are what are called Weapons"
"From a time when people used to hurt each other"
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Boy:
"Yes, I was told about that"
"People killed and harmed each other... "
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Man:
"Yes, but what you may not know yet,"
"Is that people enjoyed it!"
"Or at least, they believed that they did"
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Boy:
"What?"
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Man:
"It's true"
"Kids were taught violence was fun from an early age"
"Through fictitious shows and toys"
"Through music and indoctrination, boys were told that harming people was a good thing"
"- That is what made them Men"
"Except it wasn't quite so simple,"
"They were told it was bad and that it was good at the same time"
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Boy:
"Sounds confusing"
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Man:
"It was meant to be confusing"
"You see, the powerful at the time wanted to stop people feeling and thinking, but not too much"
"They wanted just enough function to keep the factories and wars going"
"But not too much function that made people question and rebel"
"They wanted people to desire just enough to buy products and lies"
"But not too much desire, in case they started loving enough to demand peace and refused to kill and die for them"
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Boy:
"But why?"
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Man:
"There's a lot of debate about that."
"Vast treaties and large leather-bound tombs"
"Courses and highly learned people, each with their own theories"
"But at the end of the day"!
"No one has any idea why people were so very fucking stupid to their rancid, stupid fucking core"

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