Dehumanizing?

No! it is Humanizing, and very much so.

What is it that we do to each other that we want to alienate ourselves from?
Love and empathy is human, hatred and objectivization is not?
What play of words are we hiding behind?
There is no dehumanization in genocides, there’s surrender to the human cruelty.
The level of cruelty we’re able to attain against one another is unmatched, because other species are no match to our superior ego.
There is no authentic hatred towards non humans, simply, we couldn’t care less about a cow, a table or a rat, to have feelings charge us on them.

My world is a mirror image of me,
I am also what i despise the most.
It is part of me.
We, struggling mortals, all have that part. Maybe it’s the part that failed us, that humiliated us.. The weak “us”, hiding in a dark corner in the back..we’re scared of it. Nothing is scarier than a hundred-percent personalized monster.

Society, “the other”, tame the monster. We lock it up together, we unleash it together. It lurks there in a past where we roamed freely like all animals do, living for the moment, in a world of innocent, raw and mindful existence.

Our eyes opened to a human condition, and no memory effort combined with reasoning was spared tackling it. In vain of course, and we know it, but we pretend…because…well..it’s there, it’s what we do, maybe for the pleasure of reasoning, maybe for distracting ourselves and maybe just because.

How easier to deal with our cruelty as non human, than facing a reality where it is us, where evil is us. A reality in which the battle is not over but the battle rages on. It was not over with the sacrifice or the journey of a great prophet, or following of a ritual.

But of course, it’s easier to pretend.

Without pretending, how could we enjoy a hot meal while someone else is starving? without pretending, how could we live with our disappointed selves, crammed in a cell away from daylight? Without pretending, how could we look into our kids eyes and say it will be fine?

It will be fine.

I will have to get off the keyboard and deal with my demons, the only pressing battle is to stay human.