User:Conquest/Innocence

Innocence is a state of complete and utter purity, free of any guilt or corruption. Infants, which most of us were at one time or another, have often been described as the picture of innocence, with their wide eyes, their happy, drooling smiles, and perpetually filthy posteriors.

This stream is like the clear, sparkling pool of a child's mind, pure and untainted. You can't wait to piss in it.

Very few things left in the world are innocent, since their minds tend to be corrupted early on. Sooner or later that happy, drooling baby will discover drugs and sex, the things that very likely led to its own creation. The glistening, pure spring of its mind will be lost forever, to be replaced by a stinking, fly filled mud pit, quite well-suited to the needs of modern day society. However, even in an environment built around such cesspools as these, innocence can still be found.

Innocence in Modern Day Society

The idealists among us will be pleased to know that innocence has survived in one form or another into the twenty first century. It has come to take on all kinds of meanings, but the idea remains.

Children and the Media

The media often portrays characters in television shows, books, etc., that could conceivably be viewed as innocent. Such characters, especially in television, are often directed towards children, and are often so processed, sterilized, re-processed, and then checked and re-checked for political correctness that they become little more than mindless multicolored anthropomorphic zombies, spouting half-hour long sermons on the virtues of friendship, love, and looking both ways before crossing the street. Meanwhile, the child, who by the end of the show has probably grown bored, will usually have changed the channel to whatever crime drama show is currently on, to watch the much more interesting story of the woman who was anally raped, and then gutted and left behind a back alley dumpster in the major coastal city where the show takes place.

Law

Innocence also appears as a legal term. In many countries, one's innocence is determined by a jury of his or her peers, who are charged with the important task of determining which side has hired a better lawyer. If they choose the defendant's side, he or she is deemed innocent, and is free to go. Whether or not they actually committed the crime is largely ignored, as this issue very rarely comes into play.