It
was Kain, so the Bible sais, who commited the first act of violence.
He killed his brother Abel, because of envy; God accepted his
offerings and refused Kain's. This evil deed split up the universe
into dualities. The holistic universe retreated and man stood in
front of his worst enemy, himself, as an alter-ego and double. Kain's
curse is still being exercised. Man fighting and killing man. Indian
babys are born with their hands wide open, Caucasian new-borns enter
the new world, with hands like fists. Once you fulfill an act of
deliberate violence, you are doomed. Not only will one fight lead to
another, it will also haunt you in lives to come. We cannot
understand violence, when we don't accept and incorporate the concept
of reincarnation.
The
French philosopher Levinas explored the concept of “violence” and
its effects on nature and mankind. Violence is much, much more, that
“just” war, looting, deliberate destruction, crime, etnic
cleansing and assasinations. Violence is also the “commerce and
merchandising-department of violence”. All the computergames,
video's, movies and toys are materialization of violence, and
promoted as a toy for kids starting from 2 years on. Violence is all
the noise we produce, the pollution of the atmosphere,
mega-festivals, car and motorraces and mass-experiences. Violence
against animals and against nature. But most of all, the violence
against each-other and expecially your loved-ones. In this 1 to
1-interaction violence can mean gossiping, nagging, ignoring,
discriminating or treating without respect. This is the real
battleground and it generates all kinds of effects.
So
violence is proclaimed as being natural. It is not, humans are the
only species, that kills each-other on purpose, but Natural
Geographic and Animal Planet are programming our kids, that nature
means “eat or being eating” and that predators rule. Violence is
presented as a “meaning to an end”. War is many-times the first
option and History Channel will underline that our cultural
development, is synonymous to survival of the fittest, while nations
and empires are fighting heroic and ultimate battles. There is no
war, to end all wars. When a war ends, you plan for the next one.
This is snake in our Paradi-se, is the military-industrial complex
and the governing Elite.