Mmh I haven’t posted anything in the last couple of days. This means I am supper busy or I am happy. Last week had been a real rollercoaster ride both at personal and professional ( mmhh my choice of word!!) level. The issue I highlighted is gotten such a momentum which is definitely been hijacked from me. I am unlearning to be content with it and accept my role in this circus of demand for greater fuller sensation-politically, economically and socially- which destroys the self.
I was told couple of days ago that 54 women had been sexually violated by the military in one of the occupied territories in my homeland. My comrades from that area were petrified and shared this information with me. I shared this with my new found rent seeking acquaintances (I am one of them too) and the word got out. The military had gone into the villages and terrorized people for outing them. My dilemma now is how to deal with this. Should I take responsibility for making the villagers life worse? I am responsible for this chaos.
Some say faith breeds violence. The faith that my acquaintances and I share “to protect and promote human rights”. We want to protect this idea and protect the concept and ideology with a projection of us. We have identified with it and want to protect it at any cost. At the cost of the very women’s lives we are trying to protect. I have become so violently committed to the concept where I had failed to see the truth around who is the agent. My deterioration of mind has contributed to this.
2 comments:
hmm interesting dilemma and i guess it should be a cursory indication of what happens when you speak for others without their consent!
Emerging and escaping the closet in this instance would not prove helpful as this would limit access to information and disallow any future information flow. Perhaps the only thing to do is nothing; become cognizant of the effects of speaking in such manner and be thankful that no ONE was harmed in any manner.
informed voyeur
That is a strangeeeeee comment...
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