So far, my deviation "War" has garnered 200 comments and 209 favorites.

I guess I should thank those who favorited my deviation. A second thank-you, really, as I am pretty religious at thanking people when they favorite or collect or watch me.

People talk a lot about that deviation, and I suppose the primary art in it is not that it took me thirty seconds to produce it, but that what I say in the deviation means something to everyone.

Honestly, the saying itself should stand alone: the background was just to kind of illustrate the words. But to every person, it carries a different connotation. I've had people comment about how we humans are awesome because we can blow the fuck out of anything. I've had people comment on how humans are so horrible because we can blow the fuck out of anything.

Judging by my other deviations, you might think that I would come in on the side of the former. Not so. I am mostly pacifistic. I happen to like firearms, and I own several, this being the wonderful country that it is.

Privately owned nuclear weapons are also OK by me. Call me weird.

I want to make a point with this journal: most everyone who has commented on "War" has some preconceived outlook on the world. It seems, they don't view the world as horrible because it is horrible, they view the world as horrible because that's their state of vision. Or perhaps it is the other way around.

I strive to do it differently. I want to remove my emotion and all of the scaffolding that has made me who I am and just take a completely logical view, find out the reality of the situation, and then have that reality carve out a new tilt to my perspective on the world.

In trying to do this, I've found out more than a few things, the most shocking of which is this:

The world's a really cool, really nice, really awesome in general place.