Everyone is so upset at our tyrannical, militarized police force for killing one person for no reason, yet somehow people killing each other for no reason in the thousands every year as part of tyrannical, militarized gangs is A OK, no cause for protest or civil unrest/disobedience. The reason most people get upset is because they are constantly fed a stream of negative, pessimistic information, and events like this provide a target for the projection of negative mental states. It is a subconscious state of mental anxiety and turmoil which is constantly searching for a point of release. It found its release in the death of that kid,is now finding its release in the protests and in turn the aggression against the police, who themselves are human beings in a similar malaise of toxic negativity and anxiety. Most dont really want to stick it to the man; their true intention is to ease some of the psychological pressure exerted on them as individuals. Most have no real connection to events playing out in the media, but the media is always ready and willing to provide an unhealthy outlet for that pressure, surrogate images and words which provide a temporary perfection or acquiescence for the troubled individual who is addicted to his own negative emotions without being consciously aware of his predicament. Thus, in the immediate proximity of the crime, the negativity is at its most expressive. I.e. those who are in the Ferguson area are exposed to the highest amount of images and words regarding the shooting, leading to the highest amount of physical violence and unrest taking place there. There is a direct correlation between mental states and physical manifestations of those mental states. The response by the police is exactly equal to the response by the rioters in that they both acquire their vigor through acquiescence in the same negative mental images. Neither side should be conceived as over and against the other. Both are two colors residing on the same spectrum. Therefor to play into this scenario with anger is not really to take a stand against anything, but rather to give in to ones own addiction to constantly finding an outlet for internal frustration. It can be a learning experience though, if only it is realized that this puts one on the same level as the perceived aggressors and perceived victims alike. Once again, if all this were not the case, we would see a swift and unequivocal response to gang violence and killing which happens in the same streets daily, rather than piecemeal aggression directed towards whatever target has been selected by popular media at the time. It is not any sort of injustice or tyranny in and of itself that spurs all the outrage, it is an anecdote which appeals to ones own self-perpetuated misery that captures the outrage. If this were not the case there would not be such a huge outpouring on social media. Thousands of practically speaking unconnected people who misidentify a personal struggle for a social one, or find a relief for their own frustration by projecting it towards a social event. But such an attitude cant be maintained once it is realized that social events are bottom-up rather than top-down, or that the society as an individual entity is presupposed by a diversity of individuals in the same way that a human being is presupposed by a diversity of cells, each of which expresses an individual state. Therefore the current reaction is circular because it misses this point and aims straight at society as a whole, positing a conflict of society vs. society. In fact this contradictory error of conception is expressed perfectly by images of lines of men with guns facing lines of men with Molotov cocktails. This is the definition of society vs. society, and the fact that it is violent and decidedly not for the good provides sufficient reason to call out the whole melodrama for what it is: a MISAPPREHENSION made in ignorance. If the personal struggle was not paramount before the social struggle, it is unlikely that the original act of violence between the police officer and the unarmed guy would have taken place.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 22:33:59 +0000