At times I
realize how frail the morals are within a so called enlighten people. It takes as little as a seed
of contempt planted on the eager minds of those that readily follow the opinion
makers to state a judgment they would not have had were it not for the innuendo
planted before them.
It is sad
to realize that I too have been lured by the opinions of others and swayed by
the lure of a view which otherwise would not be my own. So I too am, at times,
a member of this powerless mob that just follow the shepherd of the will as if
his/her words were the unequivocal truth.
These kinds
of manipulations have been depicted throughout the history of mankind. It
appears that a small group of men have the ability to carry their own plans by
convincing others. This can be good, when a leader is able to altruistic define
a common benefic plan to be set into motion to help the whole group. This can
be, if a bully can convince a majority of the group to act in contempt of a
person or small group people to benefit mainly the bully. The benefits are not
always clear, they might not be materialistic, they might just be display of
superiority, a show of strength, a way to obliterate some competition. Alas,
the bad option seems to be a much more common choice. The reptilian brain with
all its instincts of survival and competition, makes people much fiercer
towards on and other than supportive.
Nowadays
with the advent of social media, ideas circulate like opiates. People comment
on everything. The freedom of speech is alive, but the comprehensive thought is
slow and usually mean. The mean spirited in most of us frequently comes out
with so much spite and so little moderation, that the comments that you read on
the social networks about current affairs are shear evil.
People are
using the social media as forum to vent their personal frustrations disguised as
attacks to the current figure who is been targeted. Much like the inquisition,
the people would blindly and out of fear accept the judgment and would cheer
for the sentence to be carried out.
Schadenfreude.
How people
love to take pleasure out of someone else’s misery, particularly if they are a
figure of reference or authority within the group or the society. If there is a
chance to throw a rock, even if it is disguised by ill-meant words, they will
do it. The western society often looks with contempt to other societies for
displaying savage behavior, with barbaric sentences for petty crimes, when in
fact the western society displays similar behaviors with different weapons…
because words and attitudes will never hurt the same way as a rock.
How easy it
is for us to pretend that this is all part of a free, democratic way of living
and expressing different views. I welcome the debate, until it becomes an issue
of dissenting on others who are just different, or if eventually erred.
The mob
unfortunately, with all the access it has to a lengthy library of knowledge,
does not seem to take time to learn from it, but rather just throw the first
rock when the savant bully throws up some piece of ideological manure for
others to blindly follow.
This week, any notion of a tolerant and
respectful society just came closer to a fatal demise and the monsters are not just due on Mapple Street but in every other street.
Comment on
that you mindless jackals that lurk on the opportunity to criticize for the
pleasure of making feel the other inferior.
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