Interviewer: is that how you pick up girls?

Bradley: I actually pick up girls with various displays of origami.

Interviewer: You do not.

Bradley: Yes, I do. It’s quite a famous tactic here in England. The better you are at origami, the more women you attract.

Interviewer: And you’re sure it’s not because they recognise you from the show?

Colin: Well, generally they’re too distracted by the origami.

Bradley: Yes. My house is origami. I’ve got a car that I drove here today that is made from origami.

Interviewer: It must be very environmentally friendly.

Bradley: Yeah, big time.

Interviewer: Alright, Colin, coming back to Merlin - do you believe in magic?

Colin: After watching Bradley drive around in his origami car, I believe in everything.

Interviewer: Okay. Do you own anything origami?

Colin: No, I’m an origami wannabe. I’ve actually started up a support group because some people have a deficiency in their systems where they can’t actually fold things. I’m a part of that group, and it seems to affect people from Northern Ireland. Anyone prone to paper cuts shouldn’t even enter the origami game. It’s a rough industry and certainly if you don’t have thick skin, you’re going to lose.

Interviewer: Let us guess, we’re your first interview of the day, aren’t we?

Colin: Yes!

Interviewer: And this is how you like to start your day?

Bradley: …I usually start my day with origami.

Boston. Fucking horrible.

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, “Well, I’ve had it with humanity.”

But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”