Suppression, 8
The more fear, the more crave for protection. The more barbarian the people, the more they beg for rulers; the less self−control in people, the more pretext and room for merchants of chaos to exist, and to possibly claim more unaccountable and coercive “control”. Per se, control is neutral, if not positive: if you control your vocal cords, you will be understood. The merchants of chaos’ control is quite another thing: its aim is not your well−being and survival, but your exploitation, enslavement, degradation and suppression. It is therefore understandable how merchants of chaos contribute to give control an undeserved bad reputation, which makes us even more vulnerable to their assaults. The more successfully the problem is credulously bought as the solution, the steeper the deadly spiral of sales. The more sickness and addiction, the more drug sales and the more deification of the pill as the new holy bread.
What is madness? Anyone can give one’s own definition. As I will underline ahead, everything is basically agreement, so whatever else anyone may want to call madness, I think we can all agree to call madness the suppressive intention and/or results. There is a difference between a mere crook and a suppressive, and it is in their intentions towards others, and maybe in the cost they’re willing to pay to achieve them: A crook just wants to seize, and to hell with others; should the crook find out that his or her own survival is at stake due to his or her crimes, maybe he or she would slow down. A suppressive wants anyone else dead, and what’s more he or she’s willing to pay any cost for it, even his or her own demise; thus there is no limit nor restrain to the destruction produced, nor chance to self−restrain it. Sort of priority shift, from self−interest to death for all… I guess that if the first may qualify for being labelled madness, the second definitely does, isn’t it?
So when the actions of an individual can be consistently traced back to a basic intention to suppress and/or their consistent result is suppressive, we better call things with their name and pick that individual out as a suppressive or a sociopath: an individual socially ill.
