Un nuveo ciclo de violencia comienza, con varios casos donde la Policia de Puerto Rico dispara primero y pregunta despues. A mi personalmente me han impactado de sobremanera el asesinato del joven en Altamira, que hizo lo que dice el anuncio, de ayudar al Policia como deber civico. Mas aun el asesinato del anciano a manos de unos policias que iban a allanar su casa.
Aunque no soy de ver television estos dias estas noticias resuenan en mi ser, tratando de buscarle un sentido. Pudiesemos ser llanos, y solo decir que es un asunto centralizado en la Policia, pero la realidad es otra. Hay violencia de todo tipo. Unos contra otros, por cualquier estupidez, sea esta religiosa, de clases sociales, de ideologias politicas o de lo que sea.
Valoramos tan poco la vida.
Asi que hice un boceto en lapiz de lo que paso con el anciano en la oscuridad de la noche, mienras iba en el tren pasadas las 8 de la noche. Era un boceto malisimo pero trabajo en una idea. Mientras el anciano iba temiendo por su vida estos policias trigger happy pensaban que era un juego de video. No es la primera vez que esto ocurre. En la pasada huelga los mensajes de los policias hablaban de tumbar cabezas y cobrar cuentas viejas. Me tumbaste la pajita del hombro, ahora te tumbo la cabeza a macanazos.
Necesitamos cambiar de actitudes. No creo que nuestro superintendente sea el mejor ejemplo de tolerancia y respeto. Nos gusta el jaqueton y el sinverguenza. Somos del reino donde nuestras referencias noticiosas vienen de La Comay.
Por aquello de ayudar a nuestros amigos extranjeros, algunos articulos relacionados al asesinato:
http://www.vocero.com/noticias/ley-y-orden/14444.html
http://www.vocero.com/noticias/44-ultimas-noticias/14357-policia-mata-individuo.html
http://www.elnuevodia.com/policiasmatanaancianoqueintentoevitarallanamientoensucasa-788903.html
Comienzo dando unos links al asunto de la violencia y sus origenes. Este articulo de Forbes da una idea. Si nos desensibilizamos al dolor ajeno, si mo somos empaticos, cometeremos atrocidades:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/15/forbes-india-david-livingstone-smith-psychology-of-violence-opinions-ideas-10-smith.html
For example, one veteran confessed that, because a woman's crying infant was interfering with his rape of her he "took a living human child … an innocent baby that was just beginning to talk, and threw it into boiling water." It is hard to imagine normal men behaving in this way. Try to imagine yourself doing it, and your mind will probably recoil in disgust. However, the soldiers who committed these atrocities were neither madmen nor monsters. They were, for the most part, ordinary people. People like you. The same is true of all the other mass atrocities that litter human history. The infernal ovens of Auschwitz, the mass graves at Srebrenica and the killing fields of Pol Pot's Kampuchea were all the handiwork of ordinary people
These observations raise an extremely important question. What goes on in the human mind to make such brutality possible? Yoshio Tshuchiya, another Japanese veteran interviewed in Katsuichi's book, gestures towards an answer. "We called the Chinese ‘chancorro' … that meant below human, like bugs or animals … The Chinese didn't belong to the human race. That was the way we looked at it." "If I'd thought of them as human beings I couldn't have done it," he observed, "But … I thought of them as animals or below human beings."
This is called dehumanization. We dehumanize our fellow human beings when we convince ourselves (or allow ourselves to be convinced) that they are less than human and come to believe that, although these people appear to be human beings like us, this is merely a façade. Beneath the surface they are really subhuman creatures, fit to be hunted down and destroyed. The immense destructive power of dehumanization lies in the fact that it excludes its victims from the universe of moral obligation, so killing them is of no greater consequence swatting a mosquito, or poisoning a rat. If dehumanization is a key factor in war and genocide, we ought to be working very hard to prevent it.
Otros culpan al televisor y a los videojuegos.
Personalmente lo achaco a nuestra falta de valores. Si estoy rodeado de personas que hacen trampas, son corruptos, se roban el cable TV, la luz y el agua, o que son Pay Per Play, como algunos funcionarios politicos...nos sorprende entonces que nuestros funcionarios y policias sean manzanas podridas?
Yo sigo leyendo libros que traje de alla. Luego escribo algo relacionado.
Cierro con una historia zen. El Aguila que Creia Ser Gallina
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.
Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.
The old eagle looked up in awe. "Who's that?" he asked.
"That's the eagle, the king of the birds," said his neighbor. "He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth-- we're chickens." So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that's what he thought he was.
From Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
by Anthony de Mello
