Whenever and wherever an accident happens you will get a crowd of people gathering to observe, no matter how gruesome or terrible the accident might be.
Yet all too often we discover that once a politician is in power that they have their own agenda, and that agenda all too often has to do with personal power, or riches, or making a name for themselves, or whatever other demand their outsized and very personalised ego might be making.
We are also the ones that elect the politicians (and political petrol throwers) in the first place. Once we have elected them we stand around again. No matter how bad they are we tolerate them, make excuses for them, listen and believe them without taking any real meaningful and deep critical look at their deeds, words and actions, we seem to fall asleep and think we are powerless or decide that there is nothing to be done until the next election happens to come along, we might even help them throw that political petrol onto a burning fire.
No one can or should dispute this, and we should never forget this. However although we should never forget what happened we still have to move on, this is the way life is. Has
Are the politics and actions of
We all know that when we do not treat wounds and let the wounds heal then they turn septic, turn bad, poisonous, and even cancerous with possible disastrous results. This applies as much to psychological wounds as it does to physical wounds. The only difference being that some psychological wounds can be much harder to see or accept or be traced back to the root cause.
And are such wounds confined to individuals, or is there such a thing as collective or national wounds? Since nations and groups of people are made up of individuals it would seem highly possible that at least psychological wounds can be collective or national.
Certainly the world has seen a period of time of the Jewish people being terrible victims and therefore had felt natural and healthy compassion but perhaps this compassion has been stimulated to continue and strayed over the years into unhealthy lenience and tolerance. However I seem to recall that going way back in the Jewish people history that considered themselves victims as they were forced to leave their homes or lands. Perhaps another unhealed wound?
Yet an additional confusing psychological factor could be the fact I also seem to recall some reference to the past of them being the chosen people .
A belief that has been gently and even less gently cultivated over the many years since those Nazi years, cultivated from the compassion, tolerance and lenience, and from the continued and extended enforcement of the victim impression. Mixed up with this are the beliefs and ideas from the much longer past, and no doubt more recent financial and political positions of power.
) seems to have developed the idea or belief, or see itself, or class itself as being special . With this special status comes the belief that it is allowed to do what it wants, do what most other (perhaps with the exception of such countries such as America) countries are not or would not be allowed to do or get away with.
The extremely subjective political, military and financial power of
We stay silent when we should speak out; we withdraw into our shells when we should act; we allow our politicians to act as shadows and chase their own personal egos; we gather to gawp in awe and fear; we allow false or outdated sentiments to tint our view of life; we so easily believe the forked tongues of politicians without true and intense critical assessment of what is being said; we allow real democracy to be manipulated to suit personal needs and ideas and psychological hangovers; we allow ourselves to be manipulated by false and unbalanced sense of threats and fear; we allow countries to be invaded illegally; we go to church and speak of love for our neighbours and yet allow injustices to be carried out - often in or name knowing in our hearts that it is not right or just or often legal or loving or ..but we find or gladly accept reasons to turn away from these, from the truth
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