Really, no lies told. This is a fantastic dissection of the psychology of the war criminal. What’s special is that it locates that Sadism within the individual. it reckons with the genesis of that’s sadism. The question to ask ourselves is, how do we check our worst impulses in an environment that incentivises them.
Excellent piece of work, this just demonstrate how the human being can't learn from his past. We ultimately do the same think or even worse. These are the articles that should be reposted the most
Yes! The war crimes and absolute sadism inflicted on Iraq are finally being talked about. I feel like the world brushed aside the atrocities committed in Iraq, even after Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction were exposed (though that wouldn’t justify the wrongdoings even if it were true). It’s just so sad that this is now happening to Palestine as well.
It is important to distinguish between human nature (in isolation, "innate"), how that expresses itself in society, there largely determined by culture - and feeding back into cultural evolution - warping the individual ever further away from innate human nature, as it might be observable in a solitary individual or in small soceities (extended families, tribes).
In the sense of the "engineering-approach" utilizing systems-theory we may model the individual human as driven by basic impulse and adapting to his environment (mainly the social one) with his powerful intelligence - and the result, at social level, is then culture. For the purposes of the topic on hand we may focus on the human urge for relief from fear of harm - which translates to assertion of dominance - amplified in society - and leading in due course to a culture of domination. Domination then becomes a motivating reward - gained by exercising it to greatest possible degree towards other individuals and groups - obviously by inflicting pain, humiliation, even genocide - which one may subsume under sadism - and so it is mostly culturally normalized to greater or lesser degree within the inscrutable evolution-process of a culture. That can be quite overt, e.g. in Judaism encoding the fear of other people and the need to exterminate them ("Amalek" - as precursor of Palestinians), or covert, e.g. in the ultimate reward in Western culture being to impregnate, ideally by rape, women and even children at will (Donald Trump, Elon Musk).
Yes, this is "dehumanization" - of the victim as well as the perpetrator - and this is the toxic achievement of culture - that immaterial living being that arose from human natuer in sufficiently large societies.
Thank you for your beautiful message Zahra, Iraqis and Palestinians deserve justice for what has been committed against them. The Iraqi War is not over until the victims get justice.
Hamas raping women - not a single documented instance - all accusations were propaganda. Either you are purposely repeating false propaganda or, to be kind, you are woefully or willfully uninformed and seeking to spread misinformation. What’s your view on the genocide, the IDF rapes (documented and defended by the perpetrators), the sniping of Palestinian children, the purposeful slaughter and targeting of children, women, and civilians in general, destruction of hospitals, bombing of refugee tents, targeting of schools, targeting reporters, cutting of water, food aid, medical services, killing and imprisoning doctors, torture of Palestinian prisoners, decades of land theft, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, documented war crimes, ICC arrest warrants, genocidal intent and action from the mouths and command structures of the top Israeli regime officials, IDF killing Israeli civilians using the Hannibal directive, killing the hostages that did escape, the endless use of massive bombs to kill indiscriminately, the complete flattening of Gaza, using drones to kill civilians, boasting of war crimes on video? So did you mean that the Israeli regime are the followers of dajjal, or are you trying to put that nonsense on the victims of Israel and on Muslims in general? Let us know.
Really, no lies told. This is a fantastic dissection of the psychology of the war criminal. What’s special is that it locates that Sadism within the individual. it reckons with the genesis of that’s sadism. The question to ask ourselves is, how do we check our worst impulses in an environment that incentivises them.
That really is the question.
Excellent piece of work, this just demonstrate how the human being can't learn from his past. We ultimately do the same think or even worse. These are the articles that should be reposted the most
Thank you 🙏🏻 and absolutely!
Yes! The war crimes and absolute sadism inflicted on Iraq are finally being talked about. I feel like the world brushed aside the atrocities committed in Iraq, even after Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction were exposed (though that wouldn’t justify the wrongdoings even if it were true). It’s just so sad that this is now happening to Palestine as well.
Here's another worthwhile example of explaining sociocultural and even geopolitial phenomena from elements of human nature (aka character, psychology), where I refer back to my previous comment https://substack.com/@mpanantharaman/note/c-158944414?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=9fhiw
It is important to distinguish between human nature (in isolation, "innate"), how that expresses itself in society, there largely determined by culture - and feeding back into cultural evolution - warping the individual ever further away from innate human nature, as it might be observable in a solitary individual or in small soceities (extended families, tribes).
In the sense of the "engineering-approach" utilizing systems-theory we may model the individual human as driven by basic impulse and adapting to his environment (mainly the social one) with his powerful intelligence - and the result, at social level, is then culture. For the purposes of the topic on hand we may focus on the human urge for relief from fear of harm - which translates to assertion of dominance - amplified in society - and leading in due course to a culture of domination. Domination then becomes a motivating reward - gained by exercising it to greatest possible degree towards other individuals and groups - obviously by inflicting pain, humiliation, even genocide - which one may subsume under sadism - and so it is mostly culturally normalized to greater or lesser degree within the inscrutable evolution-process of a culture. That can be quite overt, e.g. in Judaism encoding the fear of other people and the need to exterminate them ("Amalek" - as precursor of Palestinians), or covert, e.g. in the ultimate reward in Western culture being to impregnate, ideally by rape, women and even children at will (Donald Trump, Elon Musk).
Yes, this is "dehumanization" - of the victim as well as the perpetrator - and this is the toxic achievement of culture - that immaterial living being that arose from human natuer in sufficiently large societies.
Thank you for your beautiful message Zahra, Iraqis and Palestinians deserve justice for what has been committed against them. The Iraqi War is not over until the victims get justice.
What’s happening in this comment section mirrors exactly what you wrote — how easily we lose our empathy in the echo of pain.
May we learn to hold grief without turning it into ammunition. 🤍
A hard work is
Appreciated ✨❤️
Thank you for this piece 👏
Can we even call this "play"? It feels wrong to label it as such.
Without a doubt! And as a former CIA asset he was a product and tool of Western sadism himself.
Absolutely.
You must've been in a comastose state prior to October 7th.
Can’t escape trolls and their fantasies, even on Substack.
Hamas raping women - not a single documented instance - all accusations were propaganda. Either you are purposely repeating false propaganda or, to be kind, you are woefully or willfully uninformed and seeking to spread misinformation. What’s your view on the genocide, the IDF rapes (documented and defended by the perpetrators), the sniping of Palestinian children, the purposeful slaughter and targeting of children, women, and civilians in general, destruction of hospitals, bombing of refugee tents, targeting of schools, targeting reporters, cutting of water, food aid, medical services, killing and imprisoning doctors, torture of Palestinian prisoners, decades of land theft, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, documented war crimes, ICC arrest warrants, genocidal intent and action from the mouths and command structures of the top Israeli regime officials, IDF killing Israeli civilians using the Hannibal directive, killing the hostages that did escape, the endless use of massive bombs to kill indiscriminately, the complete flattening of Gaza, using drones to kill civilians, boasting of war crimes on video? So did you mean that the Israeli regime are the followers of dajjal, or are you trying to put that nonsense on the victims of Israel and on Muslims in general? Let us know.