Violence

It used to seem easy to me what violence was, physical aggression being the obvious and at most I would stretch the definition to encompass predjudice.

Through the work Im doing in forensics, my personal definition of violence has expanded. It could be anything from hate speech, manipulation, oppression, dominance, splitting, bullying, taking, damaging someone sense of self, lying, ignoring, malicious intentions and so much more.

Daily we sneak violence into interactions, its not just the bad people who get locked away. We all do it. Want to do better than someone else, talk about someone we dont like, take something because we beleived we deserve it, sqeeze people out of social circles. Its everyone, everywhere an intrinsic part of human nature we teach ourselves not to notice. As a society we play the game of beleiving we are all good and justify who we are and what we do with tradiaitons and laws. All this so we can remain deluded to the truly cruel nature of human beings- ourselves.

We put the scary people in cages and point at them through the use of exaccerbated newspaper titles and feel a little better about ourselves.

Violence is always there, we ask them to change their ways in a society so warped and deluded, often they do not know what they are aiming for. Either the person becomes the ridiculed or the ridiculer, and how do we exit this?