Savage Indignation

[poliphilo]

If you want to go round all day in a haze of Pickwickian goodwill then don't start your morning with a well-researched article about child prostution in Cambodia.

Poor Cambodia. First it gets bombed by Henry Kissinger, then it gets worked over by Pol Pot- the maddest genocidal tyrant of the 20th century- then- with half its adult population in a state of post-traumatic stress- it becomes the world's premier destination for western sex tourists.

Human nature in the raw is almost intolerably disgusting.

We talk about paedophilia- which is essentially the brutalising of the weak by the strong- as if it were something marginal and shadowy- as it has to be in Western societies because of the harshly enforced laws against it- but remove the sanction of active policing and far too many us, presented with the spectacle of an unprotected child, will be calculating (a) how to have sex with it or (b) how to enslave it and then sell it to other people for sex.

Show me the average man and I'll show you a predator and a bully.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I guess the thing is to stand up to the bastards and face them down.

I don't like my own sex very much. Individual men can be dear, sweet human beings, but as a bunch I mistrust them completely.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Alas, all of us on this planet are predators. We are made that way--even weeds will choke out flowers.

Our higher reasoning, whatever that is, allows us to choose.

Still: I overheard two teachers talking, and one said a boy in her class had been hit hard on the back of the head and soon after became an out-of-control impulsive monster.

Is our higher reasoning at the back of the head?

We are festooned DNA, says Carl Sagan. Which part is sentient? Is it at all? I hope so. Sentient, intelligent predators: awful combination.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We are, of course, a species of great ape.

Do you remember the opening of 2001- where the human ancestor is set on the path to civilisation by the discovery that a bone can be used as an offensive weapon?

Eventually, I hope, we will evolve beyond our brutal and murderous state.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I'm not that keen on women either. They can be very calculating and nasty in ways that elude the average male. Female bosses are ALWAYS worse than men.