The Filth

As strange and "grotesque" this book is I really enjoyed it. We talk so much and joke around about the different sexual elements of the book and it was really shocking to me at first (especially when twenty some pages in I turned to a technicolor collage of orgasms) but as I pushed myself to read on I found a lot more to it. The dialogue which at times is a very crude is also very witty and clever. I loved the back and forth sarcasm and somewhat cynical element of their speech.
I had never looked at any type of graphic novel before and I hate to admit that I just judged them and put them in the category of things I dislike. This book got me to open my mind in a way and it gave some quotes that really made me think.

For example, "answers are something you want, not something you need" (54)
Is this really true? Do we not actually need answers? Or is there a line between answers we need and want? And where is it?
It is fair enough to say that if we didn't ever search for answers we would be a way less advanced society but where do we stop? I think that science and research can get out of hand but it is so hard to decide where to draw a line. And even still, did we need the answers that we have found? Or could we have been fine without them? With so much talk about technology and its necessity I often wonder if we could have remained living like cavemen. Now, it would be pretty impossible for us to survive that way if we were ripped out of our world but has it become like this due to the human race and curiousity? Or would something else have pushed us to evolve into the society we have become?

People asking questions has gotten us a lot of good things but bad things as well. Weapons, bombs, war, drugs, all of these things came to be because of people's curiosity pushing them to ask questions and discover new things. So, are the good things we've discovered worth it with all the bad or would it have been better if we just left things as simple as they were?