Re: Power


Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

I'd imagine prison warders too would be 'little hitlers' because their
job is boring, predictable and they're at the bottom of an hierarchy.

The real reason is that prison wardens are members of the moral
majority, the upper class in social life, which works just like a bully
gang in the school yard.
They became strong through violence, and holding their mothers's
skirts.

The women give them the mental strength, the violence give them the
social power.

So now they want to help other people by mistreating them to remind
them of extreme pain, to wake them up. To give them the salvation, or
to teach them to live in submission.

But we can see this from another perspective:
The bullies are using violence to rule, and violence to recruit new
members of the bully gang, the administrators of the creationist
system.

It is an old social structure, from the time of the old testament and
even older than that. The initiation rites in the stone age society
were used to make a man out of a boy. To give the man a state of mind
so he can have social power, in some cases even a magic power over the
minds of other people.

An initiation rite for transforming a boy into a man can also be
described as an act of creation, a man is created from the soft and
formable raw material, a boy.

The gods blow spiritual life into the created man.
Or a female godess pours life into the created man.
In some creation myths the spirit is replaced by the blood as a symbol
for the mental power of the man.

The prison wardens know that the prisoners do not have the positive
factors needed to balance all the negativa factors, so most wardens are
aware that they are mistreating the prisoners.

Other wardens think they are developing the personalities of the
prisoners, just like teachers and policemen think they are developing
the personalities of the pupils, or the public.

They are some kind concentration experts, adrenaline driven
personalities.
Speed freaks who think they are here to rule the world, in the name of
God.

There is a lot of violence done in the name of God.


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Roger J.

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