To explain in a reasonable way the violence of madness is in itself unreasonalble. To politicise an act of madness is a form of violence not against the perpetrator, but against the victim who should have the right to a cultural memory free of the very violence that brought her being into connection with what can only be termed - the dark power of our own genetic heritage as animals.
For we are the very violence we would disown, and until we can accept this violence as the central animalistic core of our own non-essence we will never be able to overcome the dark force of its terror. For we are not reasonable animals, but unreasoning creatures full of that most terrible truth: the self-awareness of our nothingness. This and this only allows us to let such non-beings as the violent killer who, instead of obliterating the meaningless of his own existence, force society to end it for him: a cowardice in the face of his own inanity.
I know many will hate what I say, but it is for me the truth and we need to face harsh truths. How else explain such things? Shall we just make this into a political act? Shall we castigate any madman that makes any mad act as always a poltical event to qualm our own inability to act?
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Date: 2011-01-09 08:24 pm (UTC)For we are the very violence we would disown, and until we can accept this violence as the central animalistic core of our own non-essence we will never be able to overcome the dark force of its terror. For we are not reasonable animals, but unreasoning creatures full of that most terrible truth: the self-awareness of our nothingness. This and this only allows us to let such non-beings as the violent killer who, instead of obliterating the meaningless of his own existence, force society to end it for him: a cowardice in the face of his own inanity.
I know many will hate what I say, but it is for me the truth and we need to face harsh truths. How else explain such things? Shall we just make this into a political act? Shall we castigate any madman that makes any mad act as always a poltical event to qualm our own inability to act?