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“The animals were standing near the door.
They were shot at, they were dying.
But there were those who felt sorry for the animals.
There were also those who opened the doors for them.
The animals were greeted with songs, fun and laughter.
The beasts entered and killed everyone."
(From the vastness of the Internet)
But is everything so clear?
Dedicated to the Paris tragedy of Friday 13 November 2015
The tragedy that took place in the very heart and cultural capital of Europe - Paris, shocked the entire European world and left its mark on the soul of every European. Anxiety, fear, panic, despair and pain have sown confusion, doubt, fear in the souls of millions of people. Such events frighten, shock, cause despair and helplessness, make us face to face with the fear of our own death. After all, each of us may be at the wrong time and in the wrong place.
Such attacks cause anger and hatred on the one hand, which contributes to even greater destruction, and on the other hand, pain and depression, which helps to accept reality as it is. Fear, horror and pain of loss make life at first glance meaningless, but on the other hand, it helps us find new meanings of existence (and develop new values).
In situations like this, we often ask ourselves: what drives terrorists? Why is this war necessary? Why does terrorism find support among the citizens of the countries against which it is directed? In September 1932, in his correspondence with A. Einstein entitled "The Origins of War", Freud expresses the idea that a person is driven by two instincts: the instinct for life, love, creation - Libido and the instinct for death, destruction, hatred - Mortido. These instincts are inherent in all people, without exception. The history of mankind is a history of strife, war, murder and violence. As Z. Freud notes: “in human society, the conflict of interests between people and groups is resolved with the help of violence”. On the one hand, violence provides power and order; on the other, it leads to destruction. Since the instinct of death and destruction is inherent in every person, and aggression is inherent in each of us, wars are inevitable.
Where is the war taking place? In the West or in the East? In Syria? In Ukraine? In Russia or in the USA? Still, it would be an illusion to think about a prosperous West and a dysfunctional East …
War always happens first of all inside us … In our soul, in our head … Of course, we want to be only good and correct, and not see our own problematic aspects. But this path usually leads to disaster.
If we ask ourselves the question: why did the Germans allow themselves such terrible atrocities during the Second World War? And, if we allow ourselves to think freely, we will find the answer in the following: they wanted to feel completely good and right, and they placed all the “bad” aspects in others and allowed themselves to destroy these “others”.
In order not to repeat the mistakes of history, let's think about what is happening inside us? How much do we kill? Of course, not necessarily people … But feelings? Thoughts? Relationship? Own hopes and plans? Are we too cruel to ourselves? It probably sounds blasphemous, but is not terrorism a mirror of the protest against the violence that we create for ourselves?
Often we cannot withstand the intensity of feelings that arises within us. It can be a feeling of resentment, and helplessness, and abandonment, and rage. When, after a quarrel, a woman throws the man's things out of the window, destroys, burns them. Isn't this terrorism? When a man sues his wife for a child that he does not need, and does not allow him to see his mother. Isn't this violence? Not killing the soul of a child? In psychoanalysis, this is called reaction. When it is impossible to experience feelings, and they are replaced by actions … We just often prefer not to notice our aggression, hatred and anger. Of course, one can argue that this has completely different (more insignificant) consequences. Yes, outwardly it looks like this, but the essence of the phenomena does not change.
If we talk about the consequences, about 30,000 people die in road accidents in Russia every year! Terrorism kills about 300 of our fellow citizens a year. Last Sunday, Patriarch Kirill said that the cause of road accidents is often the "obsession" of drivers with "demons". What did our Patriarch mean? Are demons external enemies just like terrorists, or are they our internal destructive impulses and responses?
It is important here to understand what responds in each of us in response to such tragedies. The theme of violence, aggression, cruelty, which causes in us an intolerable feeling of helplessness, and not even the theme of death scares us the most … The theme of an external enemy and external violence cannot be ignored just like our own mental storms.
If we return to Freud's theory of the instincts of life and death, we can see another not unimportant question: why do we refuse to defend ourselves? Rather, we are ready to take revenge, destroy and destroy, but not defend ourselves. Aggression aimed at protecting oneself and one's neighbor is all love, life instinct, Libido. If, for example, we talk about the philosophy of boxing, then all martial arts teach us not to beat, but to take a punch …
Lack of love, will to live, desire to preserve themselves and their dignity turns people into a herd of running rams.
On November 15, during an action to commemorate the victims of the tragedy in Paris, there was a panic from the explosion of a firecracker. People ran, trampling each other, candles and flowers. In such a situation of stress and nervous tension, this is very understandable and very human.
The most difficult thing that our European society is experiencing now is the ability to preserve the value of human life.
Terrorism tells us that there is nothing more valuable than death, that hatred is stronger than love. Tears tell us that we will survive, we will survive it and keep the love of life. The most difficult aspect in this situation is that terrorism causes hatred in our souls. Dividing people into "good" and "bad". And this inevitably leads to war and destruction. Now in Paris, as in all of Europe, the most frightened are the migrants themselves, who are afraid that all the hatred and righteous anger of the people will now fall on them.
Of course, now many questions arise, why the terrorist attacks were not prevented? Why was this possible? Here you can think about two feelings: paralyzing fear and guilt. The main difficulty lies in the fact that both fear and guilt very easily turn into hate. The most important question now is how not to turn the struggle with the "external enemy" into paranoia that gives rise to hatred.
It can be said with great regret that, be that as it may, but as long as humanity is on the path of denying its own "badness", "throwing away" internal problematic aspects, the division into "good" and "bad", there will be more and more such tragedies … And this is not a matter of terrorism. Any person can become a terrorist, as did the "Norwegian shooter" Andres Breivik and the German pilot Andreas Lubitz, who committed extended suicide by deliberately sending a plane with passengers to the ground.
The conclusion that we can draw from all of the above is by no means comforting: if peace does not come in the soul of each of us, there will be war!
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