Mango

Grief

Is this a time of and for world-wide grief (don’t remember when it wouldn’t have been such time), something unexpected and the terrible we must process together such as finding solution and standing together against those who wish to destroy our modern way of life and belief in common good, in good in man and that peace will prevail? How will peace prevail when peace has been sought via making war, via false evidence and constant suspicion, us against them. By destroying states and despots to give room to radicalism to flourish and wild savage bunches to make new states where infrastructure, growth and sense of belonging have been demolished. When making business and protecting business’ interests has been the most important thing in making global politics, politics which serves business and financial profit is not politics of peace, it is a theater for the media. Peace does not sell but warmhearted quotes make a difference on our walls. It does not make constant growth, peace is difficult when there is no history of peace. War on the other hand makes skyrocketing profit and jobs, it makes media fuzz, social media jackpots for trolls and rumors on who is bad and who is good. Sides matter, taking sides, making profit, winning, missions. In this light terrorism is not surprising, that it spreads in to Europe and without being detected in advance manages to do damage, kill mass of innocent people.

It is a slogan that we should not be afraid but what is more frightening than those forceful in faith and hate. Hate against Western values, tactics, morals, superior attitude and our history of colonialism. We should be scared because scare is to prepare us that there might be something gone horribly wrong. We still see the Middle East as something faraway and therefore it cannot harm us, that troops can be sent there to battle and fight as it was another planet beneath us. When war comes closer to us strange is that it strikes to be a surprise and an act of hateful people who randomly attack like animals. As there were mass protests against wars to Iraq and Afghanistan wisdom was war does not solve anything. Is it time to say nothing has been solved by this horrible waste of lives and money and those wars definitely have caused more harm than good for all humanity. That is what I grieve.

How do we protect our psyche and does it need to be protected?

Looking at the kind of image the world is, is it a state of mind? It must be since our minds are strong in producing events, emotions, images, illusions, reality and ourselves as a whole. Thinking we know the brain is still too much to say. We are scared of the brain and what it produces, make us do consciously and unconsciously. In this thought it is always a surprise how unknown our brain is, how we think we know it. Its functions are incomprehensible to the most of us. To believe in lasting healing effect of psychotherapy, psychology and psychiatry is quite new that we are somewhat lost with this knowledge we have managed to find out that we can be and get emotionally damaged and those damages can be mended with care, not with punishments and rejection. What is damage then when mind is concerned? What is crazy and how do we deal with the burdening messes life deals us? To live a protected life is known to make people more scared of life and new experiences than having lived life which sends you against all there may be, which is a lot. A protected life where you live wrapped in soft package and where all your needs are met, it may mean you do not have to take responsibility and anything outside that package is dark and frightening, odd, filthy and suspicious, damaging. Those who provide this numbing package fail to understand that life is not inside a package, inside a bubble and nobody can not be protected from harm. Over-protection becomes the harm in the end making people separate, hateful against those who differ, privileged easily harmed to whom growing up means something other than spiritual and mental growth. To experience toughness and torment have got other kind of meaning for those who have been sheltered all their lives. Priced entitlement is seen as something they deserve and a right to have. It is no surprise that falling down the ladder, depression and anxiety over minuscule issues, arguments and disagreeing, are difficult to understand fully, endure and live through.
Tormenting hatefully someone because of a differing opinion, point of view, lifestyle, background etc. in social media, on campuses reflect the crowd of overprotected ignorant people who take justice into their own hands and act upon a heat of the moment because they are on the right side against all evil. Not having thought things all the way shines through, things like what is right and what kind of argument is valid, what kind of information and conversation is wanted and needed. There obviously are psyches more valuable that others as psyches of refugees and victims of war for example are at great risk, psyches of women who experience sexual harassment throughout all their lives etc, how do they cope? What are survival methods for these people one can ask and how can an overprotected bun learn from people who truly have been mentally tormented? This in comparison to idea of how protected we should feel and what is a safe place? There is no such thing and if there is there is something wrong. Mental health viewed in a way that there is something as a good nice vibe around fun-loving healthy people dancing by the pool is a damaged goal and flawed perspective to good life. To be healthy means all kinds of feeling can exist, can be addressed and talked about, those negative as well as they do clearly exist. It means there is a tolerant and open environment to address difficult all concerning issues which sexuality and mental health clearly are

”According to the most-basic tenets of psychology, helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided.”http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/?utm_source=SFTwitter

Apostasy, Blasphemy and Free Expression in the Age of ISIS

http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazie/2015/11/05/warwick-tcd/

Running out of air. Where are the birds?

 

When sadism is an acceptable way to solve human relations and a suitable practice to function in society, to interact and gain, is to interact even a correct word to use?

Sadism is an every day image that is in many ways mainstream more than we like to admit. It is a perversion and seen a marginal desire where causing pain brings pleasure, where fetishism and play tools play an important role. Sadism represents position of privilege and entitlement, it is a practice of hierarchical and militant system where mind games and manipulation are to test, humiliate, put down and torture. Dictators and tyrants use sadistic methods to rule with fear to keep the people from rising up. Therefore it is a surprise how closely we can get to sadistic patterns of thought in a school for example or any system in which making it to fame and fortune is extremely hard and to be on top is the ultimate dream. Such role play is usual when it comes to men and women and their needs, how they are met and how women make it in their careers or in life in general. How tempting it is to use power over those who want to be adored and successful or who simply want to have the same opportunities as men have but have to fight many times harder and be better to get what men get easier. It is a moral choice, ethical choice, an outlook on humanity where people are segregated into animals and humans, superior and inferior, pure and filthy and trying to learn away from this old mindset. Such moral choice involves every human being. We must stand on a side. To think animals are lower of us and that there are people who are lower because their education and standard of living is not as high as of those who are with power and wealth is still a normalcy and to me it seems like many do not want equality as it it good for the few to be stinking rich and think that wealth is lifting those few up in hierarchy between people.

Beings are targets to hit. Who gets to aim or has the audacity to take that liberty? We can be cattle or decision making individuals who can make a difference and choose not to aim those who are underdogs. To lift up takes a strong person, to hit and bully is far more simpler, it is a simplest strategy to ’solve’ complex situations and relations where the target is hit into silence and obedience. Those who do the act of separation learn it and think it is their right, act of judging, performance of taking power of God into hands of people, taking word of God into a violent act as if God as he is almighty had give this power to the chosen ones, for those lucky ones. One chooses to be sadistic, interesting is when it happens that sadism loses and does not seem a winning method. What kind of stand point one takes concerning violent behavior altogether is essential, how will one living in a violent environment speak against violence which is everywhere and do peaceful meaningful acts that are more powerful that those bloody ones? What kind of violence do we see, are used to seeing, using against others and what kind of violence is used against us is how we become to see our power in relation to others, how we can make an impact and be powerful. Important is to recognize what is violent behavior and a violent act, where do we draw the line and how much do we hide violence as it has moved further from reach to do something about and behind veils of anonymity. How willing are we to stand alone against an angry mob, an angry regime which moves and reacts with emotional force to put down those who are against violence. How does reason and analysis defend what is right and just when reason is lost in a crowd that thinks is absolutely correct. Where does one stand on moral map, what does one do to do morally right and how does one act towards other people who do despite all moral rules against what is right. It is the most important decision done by anyone in life and a path to take on which we are in relation to each other and the world, how do we use one another and are used. To find justice seems to be awfully difficult. Relationships are always give and take situations, question is what is given and what is taken. What do we want from other people and how do we get the things we want.

By dictionary to interact is when two or more share an act, a piece, a play acting upon each other. Sadist act truly is a kind of interaction when it is done with permission willingly wanting to hurt, liking to cause ill and damage, looking to gain pleasure from someone else’s pain and for someone to be a submissive servant and slave. Real damage does not occur in this role play. The one who wants to be enslaved, tortured, humiliated, acted upon violently in a sadomasochistic role play has willingly chosen that role. When sadism functions in real life without asking permission pleasure and benefit is only for the one who causes hurt. Such one-sided play is quite common nowadays virtually with that distinct difference that most sadistic acts are done without permission, with meaning to truly hurt and maybe without knowledge of who the sadist is, the violator, abuser and bully. Surveillance, torture, humiliation, ripping off dignity and stalking go hand in hand. Such violating acts of privacy, human rights, human worth and ownership are done with justification of security, fun, rights of superior and more powerful since everybody is a suspect, target, a slave and sadism is already seen as normal,, something we should get accustomed to, learn to tolerate because it is a scary world where we are protected by surveillance. I speak of sadism which is also a term of sexual reference and tone and which behavior is as I claim normal. What kind of sexuality does our use and understanding of sadism manifest? To hurt someone bring pleasure to the one doing the hurting, bring enjoyment which has to be repeated, financial and social benefit setting boundaries so that there are people who can hurt and those who are out of reach. To humiliate and hate online, at work, at school seem to be no different, they are about the same problem of people solving power balance between them, showing who has power and what it is to use power over people because there is lot to gain and things to lose.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2015/11/islamic-state-isil-taliban-afghanistan-151101074041755.html

 

Kid

Missing woman

pencil on paper, 2015

What is obscene? By what will morals be destroyed, something which is natural and uncontrollable.