The world is more like Nirvana than Carpenters. A deeper dig into Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theories confirmed that. The theories roused my curiousity on the two greatest misues in the world, sex and violence. We all know how sex is misused and we also know violence is not intrinsically bad. The argument on whether violence is justified was mentioned in one of my previous posts. A simple example will be that violence starts war as effectively as it ends it, but it would be wrong to say that violence is the only reason why wars are started. It is simply an instrument. That is misued. There you go. While Freud's central idea focuses on sex itself, I believe that violence is another inherent human trait that is masked or hidden within the unconscious. The simple fact why Freud did not mention about violence is that he is more sexual than violent. His ideas were condemned by certain people but there was no vehement protests against controversial theories like the Oedipus complex simply because deep down, people know that it is true. Maybe not exactly the same. But there is an innate sexual aggression within the human being. Freud is now in our textbooks for the mere fact that he was the first person to admit something that is against moral, social, religious orthodoxy.
Human beings are superior because they have culture and branching out from culture comes rules. In some point of history, it is decided by the influential people that moral righteousness is the way to go. That everybody obliges by that. To do good is the way of life, to rape or kill someone is wrong. So if Freud was right, we would have violated something we believed in. Liberalism. Because by suppressing our biological system, restricting ourselves of what was to be our natural self to suit societal needs is not allowing to choose what we want or what we are. So starting from the very individual, suppression has already begun. Denying our biology their rights.
We talk about sex and violence promulgated by the mass media, how they are affecting our children and adolescents and how it corrupts our society. But deep down, these very people fighting against it might probably be secretly enjoying it. They are so warped within the societal structure and how it contructs their thinking that they did not realise that they want sex and violence to carry on in our TV sets. They know unconsciously that the more they fight it, the more sex and violence won't relent. You might not understand what I'm trying to say. Quit trying.
It seems illogical and atrocious to think that sex crimes and violent acts can be justified just because of our biology. It is with digust I read in newspapers about these atrocities but it is also something I will read for a while longer because these are what we unconsciously desire. Think of it in a scientific way and step back and think of yourself as somebody outside the human world and it might make some sense. You think I'm wrong because you're too absorbed in the way of life created by our ancestors. Society has already constructed you as much as it has constructed me. It's like the Matrix.
It is a dark world out there and birds don't sing like what Carpenters tell you. They are warning you.
