Paulo Rosenbaumdisclosure
Published 01/05/2024 00:00
“Tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.”
Thomas Mann
Recently researchers sketched out the physiology of the feeling of hate, which showed distinct patterns from other feelings, such as fear, threat and danger. They named it the “hate circuit”, a feeling that invades the limbic system, particularly verifiable in the structures of the cortex and subcortex, particularly in the putamen and insula, before the subject can have any control over their own actions and words. Perception stimulates reactivity that tries to predict the actions of others, anticipating a possible confrontation.
Former British Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, gave an interview in which he addressed the undesirable effects of globalization. He just forgot a topic that is perhaps the main one.
We are talking about globalized hate. The Greek word échthra, whose meaning is hate, still remains underexplored. In an analogical sense it has a much more sophisticated meaning than detesting. It also means creditors of hatred, that is, those who are credulous in resentment.
It seems strange, but just as there are those who worship the transcendence of love and affection, there are those who are on the other spectrum: they vibrate, have faith and collectively bet on violence and the destruction of others as a leitmotif. It is, therefore, an eschatological sect.
Your gullibility can appear through haters hidden behind masks, hoods, turbans and digitally under hidden IPs. Despite this great variety of racisms and racists, they all follow the same ritual: they are mobilized by an irrational impulse, an instinct of unrestricted resentment. And, unfortunately, the internet with its demand for immediate performance and semi-automatic responses protected by virtual anonymity works in favor of credulity in spite.
Proof of this are the choirs whose individual voices are unaware of almost everything they propagate. Where no one knows how to explain well what is defended during a march or why they attack who they attack.
In the interviews with the groups that expressed their support for terrorist groups and resurrected the libels of the arch-terrorist who organized 9/11, a common link was verified: both exalt, from the height of their historical and geographical ignorance, a subjective and generic hatred directed against the establishment.
No one can think that the establishment is a kind of paradise inspired by kindness and altruistic values, but among the operators of resentment there is no room for analysis. What prevails is cosmic stupidity. The uncritical legion includes worshipers of influencers, journalists and teachers who profess radicalism as their agenda, many of them financed by state jihadists inside and outside university environments.
Does it seem paradoxical that a State finances groups that promote and support indiscriminate actions against people? It is indeed paradoxical, since there is no guarantee that one day all this financed uprising will not turn against the sponsor.
Inspired either by aversion to the West or by populist tyranny, the society that radicalization supporters desire can only be the one they dictate. Therefore, in all eras, fanaticism has been a factor of geopolitical instability, especially when well manipulated by powerful regimes.
It is necessary to understand clearly: this is not a fight in favor of a cause, but an insane baggage of resentment, inferiority complex, desire for power and political dogmatism. And it comes from all political spectrums, after all, hate needs to be rationalized. Fear comes later, and is always reactive.
In the current case of the response that Israel has given to the massacres organized by the Hamas terrorist army, a chain of distortions has invaded the language. They speak of “fight back”, “retaliation” and other inappropriate refrains to describe Israel’s action coming out of the ropes. But if we consider the circumstances, it is about defense and prevention. Which country wouldn’t do the same when attacked by proxies on 3 fronts, financed by non-democratic Republics and without any social control?
The perversion of language has been swelling the alphabet with slogans, for months the Hebrew state has been freely slandered with a genocidal intention that never existed. The chorus lasted until it successfully stuck in the collective speech. The tactic is tricked out, accuse them of their main leitmotif, until the masses buy the idea in the central market of corrupted values.
The inadmissible truth is that, at root, they are all movements against the Jews, let us call them anti-Jewish or Judeophobic, since the word anti-Semitic has proven insufficient to convey the specificity of hatred. Hatred was finally globalized by the mass media, and without the adequate counterweights that should protect individual guarantees.
The physiology of hate is necessarily both simplistic and reductionist: well-being must be prevented. For those who believe in hatred, it is necessary to eliminate peace through all available means so that personal wars prevail against the construction of a truly fraternal or less warlike society. Obviously these prerogatives are not at all progressive. Who is against the Abram agreements? Against the countless initiatives – at least five – all rejected by representatives of the Palestinian Authority? Which of the herds that have paraded around the world have declared themselves in favor of negotiated solutions? Those who express their hostile language show no solidarity with any people.
We all know very well who the persistent antagonists of the peace plans are. This is the height of the paradoxical attitude: jihadists and their primitive conservatism, neo-Nazi ideology and the extreme left are all together sharing the same purposes and methods.
The anachronistic ideological aversion to the USA is what temporarily unites them. This may even have some durability, but only until the reign of contradictions becomes unsustainable. What we do know is that, historically, evil anti-Jewish consensuses often end in autophagic feasts.
Governments are also not being very helpful when it comes to being examples against hate speech. Nor are the institutions equipped to contain the successive waves of bullying and violent protests.
“Free speech not free spit” or “Freedom of expression, not of saliva” should be one of the campaign slogans to curb the pandemic.
It remains to be seen, what will we do about it? Inertia and neutrality are no longer options. Or they are, and in this case, we will have to accept the consequences of that decision. It is dangerous to insist on the same technique that has failed to contain hate speech. Censorship, fact-checking, posters asking for interruption do not seem to have proven effective either.
We should admit that there may not yet be an efficient political-technological therapy capable of preventing new tragedies, since violent incitement will necessarily encourage some disaster.
Even though the concept of truth has been challenged, this does not mean that it does not exist. We could start by valuing quality information and exposing misinformation. At least it would be a sign that we have detected the danger and are taking action.
Ultimately, the ultimate goal of the sect of unified hate is to make us part of it, even if we don’t. They want us to hate perfectly, for rancor and resentment to be impeccable, for us to abhor everything and everyone in a way as vile and ruthless as the one they preach. In short, they want to electrocute us by expanding the circuit.
Just refuse to accept the idolatrous game and adopt John Locke’s concept “those who adopt doctrines incompatible with the rules of Civil Society should not be tolerated”.
On one occasion, Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was asked what he learned after going through the Holocaust.
Wiesel replied:
“— Fight evil immediately. Don’t wait, don’t try to convince yourself that it will get better.”
Paulo Rosenbaum
Writer and doctor
