The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick

Author:Marcus Sedgwick [Sedgwick, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788542296
Publisher: Head of Zeus

What is it that makes us create? What drives us to carve images in stone, to daub ochre and charcoal on the walls of caves? Why do we put oil on to canvas, blow notes of music into the air, why do we make marks on paper? Some would have you believe it’s all a waste of time; some random and essentially meaningless by-product of evolution that expends our energy on frivolous things, unimportant things; things unconnected with the central matters of life: food, clothes, shelter.

These people are wrong.

Almost everyone has an inborn need to create; in most people this is thwarted and forgotten, and the drive is pushed into other activities that are less threatening, less difficult, and less rewarding. In some people, the need to create is transmuted into the need to destroy. Underlying both is the need to understand the world and to interact with it; and creation is a frightening act; one that takes courage, or at the very least naivety, while destruction is both easy, and (maybe) surprisingly, much safer.

To understand the world. To understand what we are doing here when we are dropped on to a spinning rock in space, opening our eyes in wonder at the utter confusion of it all.

Confusion. That’s what it is.

You want horror? Isn’t that horror enough? We’re born into confusion, and there are but two responses to it.

Creation. And destruction.

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