Headline, November 13 2024/ ''' HUMAN EVOLUTION'S HURRY '''

''' HUMAN EVOLUTION'S

 HURRY '''

CRUELTY IS A COMPLEX EMOTION. It does not seem to come naturally to humans. A basic instinct may combine with another to momentarily produce it.

When your survival instinct and fear are united in an intense form, you may find cruelty showing its ugly face. When confronting a life-threatening situation or a deeply ingrained phobia, people may find themselves doing what they never thought were capable of.

However, the cruelty we focus on is likely a learned phenomenon - more a product of nurture than nature.

When driven by such primary motivations, you can see the unusual outcomes. Overkill is one example. When someone could be killed with one or two bullets, the killer keeps shooting and empties a magazine into their lifeless body. You can tell it is a crime of passion. Otherwise there is no point to it.

Speaking of pointless cruelty, you must have come across road accidents where someone has tragically died or is dying, and there is a transfixed crowd, but no one is ready to move a muscle to help.

This morbid curiosity, fascination with suffering or casual cruelty is only a few steps removed from mass psychosis and mass hysteria. Always squeamish about the sight of blood and broken bodies, I do not get what transfizes others in such a way.

It reminds of a scene, if not many, from the sci-fi TV series, Westworld, where a damaged humanoid is malfunctioning in public and other robots gather around and just look impassive, inert, helpless due to the limitation of their code.

WHAT happens when this morbid fascination is so normalised that it turns sadistic? You must be deeply broken inside to enjoy somebody else's suffering.

HUMAN SUFFERING is an ugly thing. Everyone is endowed with some degree of empathy, which is supposed to counteract the effects of your sadistic desires. But if the latter overpowers the former, something is wrong with your code wiring.

It is remarkable, then, that you find so many sadists around for whom any amount of subduing, humiliating and hurting never seems enough, and they keep coming back for more supply.

I can never justify it, but I can under the prevalence of this behaviour in poorer societies like South Asia. Life is still too cheap here, and everything else, including prejudice, ideology and hatred and, of course, resources are deemed far more valuable commodities.

However, one would have expected better from more developed societies with a long history of humanitarian causes. But evidently not.

Schadenfreude [ the pleasure one takes from another's suffering ] is an uncanny sentiment. When intertwined with mass hysteria, one can do such unspeakable acts that would seriously challenge the concept of human evolution.

But do not just blame modern societies for turning schadenfreude into a sport, Mankind has been doing it for millennia.

Take the example of ancient Rome. I am sure you have seen at least one or two movies about the gladiator games. 

This public spectacle was turned into a sport as the slaves, prisoners and criminals fought to their deaths in the arena, and the crowds cheered on, enjoying every moment of the suffering on display. 

Likewise, the French Revolution is viewed as the seminal moment which gave birth to democracy around the world. 

But during the revolution, the public execution, particularly of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, and the reign of terror that followed were more than the blood thirst of wronged people.

The Sadness and Serving of this Headline Publishing, continues. The World Students Society thanks Farrukh K Pitafi.

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