Israelis mourn the loss of sons, mothers, fathers and sisters,
after eight
were killed and dozens injured
in a bombing of a bus near Bulgaria’s
Burgas Airport. Western intelligence services believe the
suicide bomber
was connected to Hezbullah, an
Islamist militant group with significant
influence in the
Arab world and political influence in Lebanon.
How in the West and
East, Mass Murderers are Bred (Elsevier, The Netherlands)
“Whether you
believe in the Joker or the expectation that 72 virgins await you in the
afterlife - the delusions are similar. Only the men in the background differ. … In Aurora, a mentally ill
man caused a bloodbath; in Bulgaria it was a mentally ill man whose deeds are
sanctioned by a particular culture. ... Aurora is therefore the consequence of individual madness, whereas Bulgaria of collective madness.”
By Leon de Winter
Translated By Marion Pini
July 23, 2012
The
Netherlands - Elsevier - Original Article (Dutch)
A mentally disturbed young man authored a bloodbath in a
suburb of Denver last week, and where I shall be staying in a few weeks time (I
will be visiting that very suburb). He seems to identify with the Joker, one of
the characters in the Batman universe.
Those who can turn off their innate capacity for empathy and
sympathy, even with complete strangers, are mentally ill. That applies to this
boy, to Breivik, and to the suicide bombers who are destroying
innocent lives - not in the name of the Joker, but in the name of the Prophet
Mohammed.
‘Lone wolves’
In the West, the perpetrators are called “lone wolves,” -
solitary individuals who maintain a quiet madness, keeping everything hidden because
their social environment might interfere with their plans. In other cultures,
they are organizational tools and the capstones of conspiracies - such as in
the recent attack on other innocent victims - young Israelis who were on vacation
in Bulgaria.
One madman begets another: Anders Breivik,
the self-described Templar
Knight, poses in a video meant to explain his heinous acts of mass
death.
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That attack received a lot less media attention, although
five young people in Israel (population 7 million) have the same meaning as 225
in America (population 315 million).
Good and evil
The enormous attention for the mass killing in Colorado is understandable:
it was an attack on a cinema, and it was the opening of a movie masterpiece, which
has at its core the struggle between good and evil. I almost wanted to end the preceding
sentence with “but”… I will leave it omitted. Twelve lives have been violently cut
short, and dozens of moviegoers injured.
On the same day - like every day - hundreds of people died
on the streets and roads of America. It happens day after day. Many more people
die in American traffic then American wars. That’s a price the public is
willing to pay for being able to drive.
But that is not the price for visiting a cinema. That is a
place where peace and safety must prevail. The chances of dying in a plane
crash are extremely low, but that extremely low probability is higher than suffering
a violent death while visiting the cinema. It is pretty much non-existent,
despite the disaster in Aurora, Colorado.
Strawberries
It is possible to live in complete isolation and stockpile
weapons in secret. This was the case for James Holmes and for Anders Breivik as well. In Western societies one can survive,
using abstract forms of government welfare and electronic resources, without
meeting anyone in person.
One need not go out and harvest potatoes, pick strawberries,
or work in the docks to earn money to provide a livelihood. You get benefits,
paid straight into your bank account, and you need have no human bonds to
survive.
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We have reduced social controls as much as possible – even rightly
- but this has an unpleasant impact on people who, for whatever reason, have
become lonely and delusional. We cannot recognize and correct such people. They
are intangible, invisible, because they elude our gaze and are able to avoid
any form of human contact thanks to the structure of our modern societies.
Facebook
“Didn’t his family notice anything?” we ask ourselves of
these mentally ill people. No. If James avoided direct contact, or even remote
contact via Facebook, e-mails or text messages, he
could carry on expanding his madness unnoticed. These individuals are the
extreme cases who, due to the extreme individualism of our society, have fallen
through the cracks of the safety net. There aren’t many, but those that there
are inflict immense pain and sorrow when they strike.
They are different from the religious zealot who caused such
human devastation in Bulgaria. He was deliberately manipulated by an organized
group. Whether you believe in the Joker or the expectation that 72 virgins await
you in the afterlife - the delusions are similar. Only the people in the
background differ.
A light skinned man with a fake Michigan driver’s license waits for
his
bus, before blowing it up,
killing eight Israelis and himself. In addition,
dozens were injured.
Intelligence services in Israel and the West say
he was likely ‘prepared’ by
Hezbullah.
These men call upon an ancient theology that justifies the
death for people of other faiths. In an age of cultural relativism, it is not permissible
to say that that a theology based on an orthodox reading of sharia
and the hadith
(stories of the exemplary life of the Prophet) is a form of collective madness,
but every now and then it is necessary to say so.
Sanctioned
In Aurora, a mentally ill man caused a bloodbath; in
Bulgaria it was a mentally ill man whose deeds are sanctioned by a particular
culture (Hezbullah seems
to be behind the Bulgaria massacre). Aurora is therefore the consequence of
individual madness, whereas Bulgaria of collective madness.
A bit “out of context,” I would like to make the following addition:
We are living in the safest time humanity has ever known (including human
tragedies like those in Rwanda and now in Syria). The chances of dying a
violent death are almost incalculably low. This is the case in the United
States as well.
Collapse
The high number of murders in America - 16,000 per year - is
primarily a phenomenon among specific ethnic groups, particularly young Blacks.
“Black on Black violence” it is called - one of the dramatic consequences of
the collapse of traditional family structures within Black communities.
Right now, 70 percent of all black children are born to
unmarried and often unemployed mothers, who have multiple children with
different fathers. And the phenomenon is now on the rise among less-educated
white Americans.
I will write about this in more detail on my site hetvrijewesten.nl.
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