The Criminal Within.....

Human beings are not nice...children, teenagers pot bellied men, old women, villagers...every single one of them....... none of us are nice. We all share a common bond of meanness, frankly we are all savages at heart and there is nothing noble about us.
Civilization is seen as a complex achievement: it is nothing but a fragile working arrangement stitched together. Facades are crucial and ever so often this facade slips and human nature is revealed for what it is... nasty brutish and short sighted.

How long is it going to take people to realize about what they actually are. Mindless brutal killers all of us... Every one of us...
Human beings are engaged in a battle of wills, each human being driven by a Nietzchen will to power. According to Freud this battle begins in childhood; the nurse wants the toddler to take his dump... the kid squats on the pot but resolutely refuses to let the turd drop... its called anal retention..... that's where this all starts... this struggle within....

Have you ever been to a kid’s playground..??? I am sure all of us at some point or the other have heard of or come across instances of what men and boys do to each other in school.... Did you read about the teacher who bit his student’s ear off...? I mean if Mike Tyson could do it then why not him.... or the guy who loved scratching the faces of his girl students, leaving them scarred for life.....sadistic to the core.... now what led him to do what he did and in fact reach a point in his life where he started enjoying it....

I knew this guy back in law school who loved chopping ants and other insects...weird as this may sound but every evening he would take his bath , comb his hair and place himself on his table, while others played soccer or went out to do some constructive bird watching our friend here would reach for his blade....simple gratuitous cruelty... cruelty in its purest form.....

Then there was this other dude... soft spoken...vicious always smiling. Preferred lizards to ants. He would stuff their mouths with chewing tobacco and then watch them do their back flips in the air; the ring master usually had a mesmerized audience......

And how can I not talk about another acquaintance... simple boy ... went to a boarding school was tortured beaten... forced to take cold showers in the month of December and then beaten with belts... but by who.... his own seniors... who are as human as most of us..... why did he go through what he did... and what will be the outcome of all the anger that's built up inside of him... only time will tell.

Look at a larger picture.... what happened in Gujarat... what happened in Nazi ruled Germany... people were killed ,raped mutilated... by whom.. their own neighbors... friends and other human beings.....what led them to do what they did... nothing but a basic fact that somewhere along the line we all are evil and criminal in more ways than we can imagine.

In a famous series of experiments HF Harlow of the Primate Research Centre Madison reared monkeys in conditions of complete isolation and maternal deprivation. The observation that followed was scary... when these monkeys were released in among the ordinary monkeys, instead of breaking into a tango; they sat huddled in a corner, riddled with fear and depression. Some of the monkey mothers became so neurotic that they smashed the infants face into the floor and rubbed it back and forth.

And in one of the most gruesome experiments conducted by the US army, monkeys were trained to run inside a large wheel. Slowing down was punished with an electric shock, once the monkeys were able to run for long periods they were subjected to lethal doses of radiation. The sick and puking monkeys were forced to run till they dropped dead. The army insisted that the above mentioned experiments provided them vital information on the capacities of soldiers to fight after a nuclear attack...... BULL SHIT

Cruelty both physical and mental comes naturally to us. There is a murderer rapist arsonist and interrogating officer in each of us. The human spirit is by nature castrated...why are we so shocked by the images of prisoners in Abu Gharib? We all would have done the same thing had we been there....... think about it…??