Wednesday, January 14, 2009

VICTIM

Below are excerpts from a rough draft of observations I am writing about- on the nature & culture of human cruelty (links are in brown).


"And, we all should- know that the moment a 'victimizer' 'victimizes' another being- is the moment in which the 'victimizer' hopes to ostracize the 'victim' from society, dehumanize them & disenfranchise them, in order to manifest a false sense of 'power or authority' over other individuals or groups of people. We have to ask ourselves, why this role is so important to us & why we rally behind & empower 'victimizers' & their culture of cruelty & disempowerment ( Observational learning & operant training? )"

"Obviously- those who 'victimize' others are eventually revealed to have tremendous limits to their 'authority' & in time, we- are left aghast at the failures of our own conscience-."


ABU GHRAIB.

For further reading on this subject please look into MYSTERY & Klimov's IDI I SMOTRI.
And especially - Human Destructiveness by Anthony Storr.
DEER HAVE A CONSCIENCE.