Humanity and perversion

The mechanisms of cruelty

War is born of hostility, this being the existential negation of another being. Carl Schmitt.

Cruelty, barbarism, is never dispersed without reason. It obeys very particular logics. We will now study the different paths it takes to express itself.

1/ Pathological perversion.

Several points should be made clear from the start.

Cruelty has become rare in humanity. They remain on the fringes of classical human behavior. The development of consciousness gradually overcomes these perversions.

Researchers are beginning to understand how evil personalities are made. Psychology is gradually deciphering the seeds of these states of mind (emotional deficiencies, childish violence suffered, narcissistic education, etc.).

The current cruelty (unconsciously initiated by ultra liberalism) can serve as an example. Like all the major dominant systems, ultra liberalism generates its share of perversion. But if the past submitted to these great morbid moments, the present does not hesitate to criticize them. He dismantles the mechanisms. From then on, human society begins to see the responsibility for perverse systems. To measure the implication of selfishness and narcissism in the expansion of violence and chaos. To be seen in the demonization and contempt of certain human groups, the ferments of barbarism.

2/ The cruelty of the dominant.

Today, most of the mass cruelty is the fruit of two "accomplices".

• On the one hand "cruel powers" (western imperialism)
  On the other, "cruel resistance to cruel powers" (terrorism).
  

This barbarism of "dominant" is by far the most devastating. It is, however, on the verge of extinction.

Toward the end of political cruelty.

a/ Governments

Indeed, it is becoming increasingly difficult to impose cruelties on public opinion. We saw it with the Gulf War. It took all the cunning of the hawks and the possession of the mass media to impose a war refused by the majority. Henceforth the people conceive a priori the barbarism that will be the armed struggles. He now feels that he is the only victim (even if the current media, under the thumb of the powerful, have concealed the ravages of the last conflicts).

This is another major point in evolution. In dictatorial systems, leaders imposed their barbarity without consulting the people. In today's democracies (albeit imperfect) the dominant must use manipulation to impose their desires of war and cruelty. Evolution will overcome these manipulations as it has come to the end of the dictatorship. In the future, the dominant will therefore have no way of imposing their cruelty.

b/ Terrorism

It also becomes very difficult for terrorism to legitimize its cruel actions (morbid link between "western hawks" and the leaders of terrorism). The population now knows that it is the first victim. In other words, gradually the destiny and the weapons of the “resistant” will be in the word, the peaceful demonstration and the writing.

The acolytes

But we're not there. Even today, these two accomplices (cruel statesmen and cruel terrorist leaders) impose on the majority, their testosterone system. They are however the rear guard of a humanity already aspiring to fraternity, peace and universality.

These unconscious accomplices, pretend to act for their mutual community and each of the two say they love it. In reality, they are the gravediggers of their people. They prevent it from evolving in the direction of history. In the sense of peace.

They are increasingly out of step with intelligence and human consciousness. To legitimize their actions, they must keep the people in an uncultivated and reactionary spirit. To do this, they must use increasingly crude stratagems. This mechanism naturally prevents consciousnesses from progressing.

Towards the end of the impunity of the dominant

Barbarism can be ordered:

• By systems (forced capitalism for example).
• By states (totalitarian regimes).
• Or resistance movements (for example terrorism).
  

All are destined for extinction and will be exceeded.

reduce the omnipotence

Thanks to certain experiments (experiments like those of Milgram, or of Professor Laborie), the responsibility of governments is increasingly deciphered.

The impunity of heads of state, narrowed more and more (including in the democratic world). International courts are developing their influence. All this is intended to increase the fear of statesmen. To avoid them the pangs of feeling untouchable.

The West, it seems, is finally beginning to understand the importance of freeing the media. The importance of having honest and independent journalists, journalists capable of criticizing the cruel decisions of the powerful.

Looking at the history of humanity as a whole, state cruelty seems to have eaten its white bread. Its mechanisms are discovered. Laws are beginning to appear to protect those who refuse to obey orders they deem cruel. The human conscience supports less and less the cruelty of the war. Men increasingly want to live in peace ... The few bits of string through which political cruelty is still expressed, will not resist in the future.

2001

the future of cruelty

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