Your letter writers Barbara Finch and Patsy Asch ask the eternal question, “Why is man so incredibly cruel to man?” (NDL, July 22).
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
I doubt they will get the definitive answer.
The first thing to understand is we live in a world of paternalistic tyranny and oppression, even in this country of ours.
The second thing to understand is that people do what they do, because they can and this is an indictment on us all.
There are four elements that create the situation for man to act as he does – power, tribalism, religion and greed.
These elements use national jingoism and propaganda, especially in the engendering of hate, feed incorrect and dangerous religious belief and fervour, and the absolute indecency of the police and judiciary which is used to subdue even those that are correct – dissidents from engaging in free speech must also be noted.
Of course there is one more little emotion that will create problems – and that is resentment.
It works this way. Nearly all the world has gone to help in the funeral of 292 people who died in a plane that was shot down by someone in a real estate power play.
A small country in Africa has had nearly 300 of its juvenile females kidnapped. Who cares?
A few hundred innocent men, women and children are murdered by the government of Israel. Who cares?
Some Allied soldiers are photographed urinating on the dead bodies of their muslim adversaries. Who cares?
Australia has placed many thousands of people, of varying nationalities in concentration camps. Who cares?
Well let me make it clear – the resentment that these forgotten people feel is real. They will carry that resentment into every situation they find themselves in and it is just a short walk from were they are at, to picking up a gun.
At the time of writing this letter I find that a plane crash in Taiwan has killed 40, another in Mali has killed 100 or so. Who cares?
We see that Islamic “control freaks” are demanding all women, in Iraq, undergo genitalia mutilation (circumcision)!
These imbecilic, power hungry, sado-masochists are, by their own definition, “Men of God”.
Men of God?
The English language hardly has suitable words to describe these brainless monsters. Where are the politicians demanding this horror be abandoned? Where is the army that will wipe these men from the face of the Earth?
There won’t be any because corporations now control the oil.
It is men causing so much misery in this world.
Read about the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse, and other examples. Nearly all caused by men, and it is continuing.
Read about physical violence against women and on the street – men again.
Men are generally in control of governments, law enforcement, the judiciary, political parties, financiers to political parties; most unelected advisors and party apparatchicks are men; bike clubs; and , most religious groups and cults.
We even now read that men own many of the brothels.
Men found out how to create money out of nothing years ago and are still at it.
It was men who declared cannabis use illegal.
It is men in government selling off community assets.
It is men stopping same-sex marriage and abortion.
Our politicians will be too busy, waiting for Anna Meares to come home, so that they can join in the photo shoot, hoping some of Anna’s magnificence will rub off on them.
Neil Forscutt
Willow Tree
