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[sowingseedsandshootinghoops]

The Price of Being Human

Note on the text: I used Stephen King’s The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I as published in 2016 by Scribner

“It ends this way he thought. Again and again it ends this way. There are quests and roads that lead ever onward and all of them end in the same place- upon the killing ground” (130).

Human nature never changes. Despite all the progress we have made (technologically, philosophically, scientifically, politically, economically, morally etc) we remain, at our core, as we always were. Despite how much we constantly push ourselves to better, we always find a way to destroy ourselves. Our propensity towards violence and self destruction will never go away. Destruction and violence is it seems, at least at times, the price we have to pay for progress.

“The Man in Black” as he is mostly known, while he is definitely a villain, is still human on some level, and knows about the frailty of human nature. The small campfires that the hero Roland sees while pursuing the man, also known as Walter O’Dim, are “small signs. . . affirming the man in black’s possible humanity” (5). Not only is he human on some level, but it’s obvious throughout the novel that he knows how to exploit human weakness. No where is this more obvious than when Walter visits the town of Tull.

Now Tull is a small, relatively stable town inland this post apocalyptic wasteland where people have managed to live together in peace and harmony. But when Walter gets there he starts trouble by resurrecting a dead man, local drug user, and implanting in that man’s mind truths about death that he knows will drive people insane if they learn about it. Now people have been fearing death for a long time, and have been trying to learn more about it for just as long. Think of how many stories, religions, myths, political policies etc have been built around our fear of death. Walter knows that despite how dangerous such knowledge is that people won’t be able to resist it. Just look at the letter he leaves behind to Allie, a local bartender:

you want to know about death. I left in him a word. That word is nineteen. If you say it to him, his mind will be opened. He will tell you what he saw. The word is NINETEEN. Knowing will drive you mad. But sooner or later you will ask. You won’t be able to help yourself” (41).

Despite her better judgment, she eventually caves and while we don’t know what the man told her, we know that it made her and the whole town insane. They all turn into violent psychopaths that Roland is eventually forced to kill. All because Walter knew that in their attempt to learn more about death, they would encounter knowledge that they wouldn’t be able to handle and that would push them towards the violent and self destructive paths that it always does.

Our constant striving to become is both our greatest strength and our greatest weakness because while it does make us better than we were before, it also seems to give us a greater ability to exploit each other in various ways. So while increasing industrial output made us richer as a whole, it also gave us the ability to exploit each other on a scale hitherto unknown, and while advances in chemistry might have helped us to make better medicine, it also gave us mustard gas. So while progress is good, it seems to always come with some unintended negative consequences. It does seem sometimes like the inevitable price for any kind of progress is a kind of destruction. It certainly seems like as a species we don’t really know how to deal with continuous, uninterrupted success

[walterodimisstalkingme]

Hey. My name is Charity and I live in Kentucky. I know the title of this blog may make me sound crazy, but personal experiences of mine are the reason behind it. I hope I'm not alone in my suspicions. It all started when I visited a trail near me the day I saw the film for the first time. The first photo I took on said trail shows a figure shaped an awful lot like Walter (included actual movie character for comparison.) 

The second photo is from another outing later on in the fall. It seems to show most of what definitely looks like Walter to me. 

I have also caught whistling a few times on videos I took on this trail and have felt like someone was right behind me before when there wasn't. I have also heard what sounds like a man breathing along with my breathing in videos when I was alone in the trail. And have smelled campfire smells when there were no campfires around (It's a community trail behind a hospital building, not a park.) I have seen what looked like evidence of someone having made a campfire too. I know from the Gunslinger book that Walter has been known to leave camp fire evidence behind.

I will be sharing more odd things I've heard and seen later on. I swear that I have not edited any of the pictures or videos that I share aside from some zooming in to clarify what I see and video trimming to narrow down on odd sounds.

[cartoonistluke]

Today’s #inktober: Walter O’Dim, aka the man in black, from “The Dark Tower.” #comics #cartoons #stephenking #darktower #thedarktower #walterodim #themaninblack #maninblack #artistsoninstagram #cartoonistsofinstagram #artistsontumblr #cartoonistsontumblr https://www.instagram.com/p/BplLocZhGEP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xoc63osgr70i

[kostopolis]

Inktober Day 08: “Crooked/Randall Flagg” 😷🇺🇸 . . . . . . . . . . #inktober #inktober2017 #lategram #late #crooked #ink #inkdrawing #penandink #drawing #illustration #characterdesign #novels #TheStand #RandallFlagg #TheWalkinDude #TheDarkMan #TheHardcase #AgelessStranger #TheManInBlack #walterpadick #walterodim #martenbroadcloak #russellfaraday #richardfannin #richardfreemantle #RudinFilaro #RichardFry #RobertFranq #RamseyForest #CaptainTrips #stephenking #sakurainktober @sakuraofamerica

[happyartbunny]

MORE OF MA BOI WALTER I WANNA MAKE HIM MY BACKUP MUSE FOR DRAWINGS WHENEVER I HIT THE ARTBLOCK OMG HE IS SO PRECIOUS AND EVIL IN THE MOVIE SOMEBODY SAVE MEEEE SJNCLSNXKEB #art #digital #walterodim #thedarktower #thedarktowermovie #thedarktowerfanart #stephenking #walter

[forensic-houseian]

Hile Gunslingers. . . #Repost @poptastic_foxhole (@get_repost) ・・・ 'The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed. ' #popfunkovinyl #popfunkophotography #popfunkofun #popfunkofamily #popfunkocollector #popfunkoart #thedarktower #stephenking #constantreader #idriselba #matthewmcconaughey #rolanddeschain #walterodim 📸: @louis324

[keithrichie]

See one version of the story , and listen to another. Gunslinger: A Journey to The Dark Tower in Music Volume 1 #music #thedarktower #gunslinger #dark #ambient #roland #katet #maninblack #jakechambers #rolanddeschain #walterodim #thereareotherworldsthanthese

[petesbasement]

The #DarkTower trailer has dropped! What did yous think? #StephenKing #TheDarkTower #IdrisElba #Gunslinger #TheManInBlack #MatthewMcConaughey #MartenBroadcloak #WalterODim #RandallFlagg #ManInBlack #NewYorkCity #NYC

[marlasomething]

So fucking done #matthewmcconaughey #walterodim #themaninblack #idriselba #rolanddeschain #thegunslinger #tweet #twitter #thedarktower #myedit

[hollywoodalreadydidit]

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[happyartbunny]

THE DARK TOWER WAS SUCH A GREAT MOVIE I LOVED HOW MATHEW MCCONAUGHEY PLAYED WALTER AND I LOVE WALTER HES SUCH A PEDOBEAR I WANT HIM EAT JAKE ALIVE Im gonna try and draw him as real as possible lmao #walterpadrick #thedarktower #thedarktowermovie #fanart #jakechambers #rolanddeschain #walterodim

[marlasomething]

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