"How can a man ever really know anything? We're living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the Good People are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard."
The world is an interesting place because nobody can trust each other and nobody will ever know everything there really is to know. There is corruption in society. A perfect country does not exist without corruption. In general, the narrator is saying that there is both good and bad in this world. Even with the "good," corruption exists. The narrator is also metaphorically saying that if everyone had all they ever wanted, we would be overwhelmed and completely greedy. There would be mass inflation and the world would most likely crumble.
I chose this picture of a sun because the horizon represents how knowledge regarding people and civilization is infinite. Nobody will ever be able to understand the full truth that exists in the world and about how corrupt societies are. The world is an interesting place to live and the amount of knowledge is completely limitless. There is not one person that will be able to know everything.
Jim Thompson. The Killer Inside Me. Vintage Books. 1991. 119.
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