2023-10-07 02:55:00
Those who practice it or who practiced it often admit that violence, once you get a taste for it, is not so easy to stop or contain: it becomes a vice very quickly. The same thing happens with its contemplation, where violence is resolved into spectacle: it seems it is easy to get carried away and then not be able to stop. It applies to both physical violence and verbal violence: there is the pleasure of punching each other and there is the pleasure of doing harm with words.
There is a breaking point, difficult to overcome, and it is when it is clearly noted that resorting to violence will not bring any consequences: that it is possible, that nothing happens (a very extreme version of this instance appears in the Dahmer series , when the murderer understands that he is going to continue killing since no one is going to stop him, since nothing is going to happen with what he does).
In politics there is one more degree, and it is when it happens that the display of violence not only has no cost (as did, forty years ago, the burning of the caisson exhibited by Herminio Iglesias), but the other way around: it arouses support, enthuses, emboldens , gets excited. Then aggressiveness assumes its escalation of cruelty, cruelty, vertical denigrations, intemperate reactions; It leads to the show of the madman, with applause for those who hurt. The alternatives are discredited: they are challenged as softness, thin skin, alleged moral superiority, sins of lukewarmness.
This is how the winds of the time blow. What happens then when a more aggressive person appears, a more aggressive aggressive person, an abuser who abuses more? What happens, happens. No more no less. It is not surprising.
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