On violence

Well, today I have to talk about something I care about or find interesting or like a lot… I’m thinking about the violence’s “root” into the human being. I was thinking that people are something very strange, I mean in the speech of humanity we aspire to kindness, trying to throw out the wickedness of the society, but it goes for us over and over through the years. We can see the effects of “violence” every hour of our life, but what kind of violence?

That question is interesting because it brings us to think in the author and the sense of violence for him, from the idea of an action made by someone for something, it motivated by a personality inside his mind… If we just see the problem in that way, we are focusing individually, that is, we are thinking violence as a product of individual wish, forgetting the social part of the problem, about the historical conditions of daily life, the dynamics between the subject and the group, and the power positions related to the government of societies.

I’m trying to ask about the possibility to think the violence not only in individual terms, depending on a wish emerging from the inside of the mind, because I believe that psychological issues are mechanisms which were constructed as an answer of environmental requirements, a way to process the relationship with other person different to me.

Maybe the idea of good/bad is useless to think about the root of violence, it could be like this because they are opinions of the consequences of violent acts, but they say nothing of why it happens in a specific time and how is the relation between the author and the social context.

To sum up, in this moment it is a main issue for me think about when, how and why we can use or not the violence as a resource into the conflict before powerful ones, and in which dimension and context we can evaluate the limit of violence between “use and abuse”.