Wednesday, September 25, 2013

His head is broken and so is our brotherhood

He was clearly broken, any idiot could have seen that. But could we have all seen it? I don't really want to talk much on how inhumane the actions of the Naval shooter were. What he did was something far more removed from a human sense, or an animal sense from that matter. He killed simply to kill. He made no gain from it, and only created loss to others and himself. Not even an angry dog would do that, but a rabid one might.

What I'm saying here is that this man's brain was clearly broken. Things weren't working properly. The machine overheated and exploded. What's worse is that there were some that could see the metal turning red and the boilers going haywire. The problem was that individuals saw it and not groups. Had a means of communication, or much more a sense of brotherhood among ourselves as humans to be able to see a struggling brother who needed help. So yes the faults in the inhumanity are his but maybe we could have done something to.

The articles pint out how there had been points that we should have gotten hints. And then I clicked with something that Marx spoke of and that was the collective workers. We are the workers. And as workers we have to look out for each other. Marx would have frowned on society, he would have pointed out how we were too much of an individual based society that failed to look out for its fellow worker that had been injured and was not being taken care of. And in the process we lost more brothers and sisters.

I'm not saying that we are 100% to blame, but we do have a fault here too. And maybe there is a ray of hope here that as we show compassion for the lost ones, we will grow closer together and learn to use each other as a support system. Maybe, and this may sound too idealistic, we can progress toward a society that resembles a sports team. Where everyone may have their own duty to fulfill, but at the end of the day we see each other as team mates and not just another stranger.

2 comments:

  1. Hutcheson speaks at times of something called "disinterested malice"--it is a pure delight in hurting people for its own sake. He says that it could only truly exist if we were acting out against a totally evil creature. Did Alexis demonstrate this? Or did he think he saw total evil mistakenly, and thus just demonstrate a type of disturbed selfishness?

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  2. Jose,

    I like your personal analysis on the subject and how you point out Marx's perspective; it is one that most people probably would not have considered. Keep up the good work.

    Cullen Cosco

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