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You Just Have to Wonder (by Morbus)
Two Points for Stupidity (by Morbus)

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.ili. You Just Have To Wonder .ili.
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As a whole, you just have to wonder. You just have to wonder how stupid our society has become and is. Look around you. We have more high school dropouts then ever which can easily be combatted by saying we have more kids that stay in college. Which in essence is true. But in general, we are having more kids. We are also having more abortions, but then you  need to wonder why people feel that by blowing up an abortion clinic that they have earned a point for life. A point for life? They shoot two people (and wounding others) and yet they feel that they are justified. They feel that they have done their society a great deed. 

We have to wonder about where hero worship is going. Sure, there was a bomb at the Olympics. And sure, that security guard saved people from dying. What a hero. Tommorow we will talk about how our "hero" is the number one suspect. We worship him because we need some sort of assertion that there are good people in the world. And then when we find there is no criminal, instead of looking for one, the public demands one immediatly. Someone who they can hate and scorn. So they turn to they're "hero". He is the enemy now, and hey, should it matter? He is as expendable as anyone else in this world. 

We look around and say, "Hey! Condemn California for legalizing marijuana!" and yet many parents still don't tell their 7 years old about, so blind in their security that it couldn't happen so young. 

We watch the TV, and we see death and we change the channel. Oh, we don't change it because we are mortified by it, no, we change it because we have seen it all before. We have become so desensitized to the massive death that we see on the news that we are merely bored by it. We seem to, rather rejoice in the fact that we can watch NYPD Blue, watch someone get shot, go to the hospital (nary showing a bit of blood) and then come out fine, just in time for the next episode. We know people  who complain because they are spending $30 a week on cigarettes and that it's gonna kill them. Big deal. We all know a government who spends $430 billion to KILL ALL OF US! You see, we need to stop accepting things for being face value. We need to stop mindlessly nodding our heads and saying "Yes, that's the way" when we know it isn't. You just need to  wonder. 

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Why is it are we are so attracted to face value? "Don't judge a book by it's cover" I could sit here and type questions all day: why do we constantly ignore wisdom passed down through the ages, why do we judge first and then ask questions later, why are we so damned irrational? Do you want to know how many people emailed back and complained that they were christian or mormon or so forth? Look, folks. I respect your religion (which a lot of you won't believe) and I am glad you are firm in your beliefs. But, you're beliefs are not in contest for this zine. Nor are they being challenged. As a matter of fact, this zine has had nothing to do with religion since it has been released, or since it was in the planning stages. And it doesn't plan to. 

People just need to get past the title of Devil Shat. What does Devil Shat mean? Which is another thing that confused me. People email me or IM me and they ask me "What is it? What is it?" My first response is "did you read it?" Do you know how many people said "no"? As many people that thought it was a religious bashing zine. Why can't people do a 
little thinking on their own, a little research on their own? And more importantly... can people at least attempt to judge with a little background on the subject? I guess not. I'll be intensely curious as to how many similar responses for this issue now that I've explained my feelings about it. Ah twell. 

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