May be youve read my Facebook post HERE yesterday about the gruesome killings in Paris of almost all the highly talented cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo, France most famous satyrical weekly newspaper. The terrorist attack has put not only France but the whole Europe and a big part of the rest of the world under shock and i think we can say that, just like after 9 / 11, there will be a before and after the brutal murders of the Charlie Hebdo artists. And the reason why is because here its something sacred for all of us, reasonable peoples living on this planet, which has been attacked: the freedom of speech in its larger dimension and if it was not clear yet yesterdays terrorist made all of us understood that its not a war against islam but against fascism, in this case a radical islamist fascism. Closer to obscurantism, though, because as someone said yesterday killing twelve people for a guy who died 1600 years ago, you have to be insane. Its indeed a question of insanity and even more psychosis, but id like to take a minute or two to answer to a question that probably youd like to have the answer, i.e what can lead someone to do such monstrosity? As usual the answer can be find in the books of the great Jiddu Krishnamurti, one the most brilliant mind of 20th century and for whom one week of national mourning was declared in India when he died at 90 in 1986. As i used to say, all answers about why the world is going mad are in Krishnamurtis books. He spent his life to the study of mind, how the thought is working, and explaining why no one should follow any guru, and i cant recommend enough to discover his writings - The Awakening of Intelligence. So, why do i introduce Krishnamurti in all this? Because he explains something essential which is that the brain needs an order to have the thought working properly. And for this it is ready to take anything which includes an order, whether it is a religion - any religion includes an order because there is a start, an history, a way to behave, rules of living, etc... or it can be any kind of ideology, the late communism being a good example of an ideology including an order. Now, lets get back to the radical islamists and why they can kill 12 people just because they felt offended by Charlie Hebdos artists cartoons. Crimes under the name of religion happened all along centuries, so there dis nothing really new, and right now its radical islamists who are in the foreground but what you need to understand is that the reason why they cant accept anyone having fun of their prophet is precisely because it unconsciously they feel it attacks their own order. Most of us have enough humor and we wouldnt feel in danger in a similar situation, even if eventually we wouldnt be happy if someone was having fun of someone we love, but we wouldnt kill anyone for that, right? The radical islamists does and i think its because they cant accept that the order on which is based their life is being put in jeopardy. The fact is that it is NOT being put in jeopardy by cartoons - as sacrilege they can be - but for people for whom the only think they have in their life is their religious beliefs then they can think this way and if you add on all this a pinch of fanaticism and psychosis the cocktail becomes highly explosive. Dont get me wrong, im not trying to excuse their abominable killings, im just trying to explain all this madness. Yesterday, hundred of thousand of people were in the streets of Europe major cities with the above sign We are all Charlie and today was declared a day of national mourning in France. One minute of silence happened everywhere in France and in most European countries, including at Disneyland Paris as you will see in the video below filmed by our friends of the DCP forum. Dozens of European artists have also paid tribute to Charlie Hebdos artists and here is a selection of them. Krishnamurtis The Awakening of Intelligence book can be find here in english: amazon/Awakening-Intelligence-J-Krishnamurti-ebook/dp/B00873W5LO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732205&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Awakening+of+Intelligence Or here in french: amazon.fr/LÉveil-lintelligence-Jiddu-Krishnamurti/dp/2253167541/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420732300&sr=8-1&keywords=l%27éveil+de+l%27intelligence
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:38:29 +0000
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