The Villainisation and Victimisation of Society Based Upon Groups

I believe that this is a really important topic, one that our future hinges on to a fair degree. There is a somewhat subtle imploration in Western society to categorise people as either a Perpetrator or A Victim. You can't be both, you can only be one or the other. In a relatively small yet growing minority it is believed that the two predominant groups used to divide people into these two categories are your sex and your political opinions. There are plenty others, but for the purpose of the blog I will confine it to these two.

This phenomena is particularly relevant to modern politics and the infuriating dilemma between left and right political beliefs. The Villainisation of the right is actually justified in many ways, especially given the history that we are exposed to in the modern era. The liberals have historically been the advocates of the oppressed and disadvantaged, being guided by their compassion for others. However in recent years I am concerned that this desire has been twisted and manipulated to allow the psychopathic and narcissistic individuals who were once mostly on the right, an opportunity to hide behind the guise of compassion and empathy to enact and enforce nefarious outcomes on society. The problems that this may cause and is causing could be catastrophic to society. It has provided a loophole for people to act malevolently with the safety net of compassion and the ability to ascribe cruelty and lack of care to anyone who disagrees with them or their ideas. It is an incredibly manipulative and parasitic technique.

I also see this playing out with sex. Some segments of modern society want us to believe that men are bad and women are good. You might think this is an exaggeration, but the recent popularity and reaction to the Barbie movie illustrates the growing nature of this pretense. We are led to believe that all men are and have ever been are evil oppressive patriarchs who have oppressed women since the dawn of time. Whilst women are these incredibly innocent and infallible things who have been subject to tyranny and oppression for centuries These statements, in an absolute sense, are false.

When my mum was growing up she was bullied incredibly horrifically by this girl who had some form of disability, I'm not certain but I think it was a Port Wine Stain Mark; either way she was undoubtedly vulnerable in some sense of the word. As a result of her disability she was considered by others to be incredibly vulnerable and subsequently incapable of acting maliciously towards anyone else, allowing her bullying tendencies to be dismissed due to her, I imagine perceived defenseless position. The compassion of others was both enabling her to continue to act malevolently towards others, and also neglecting my mum from being looked after.

Women are more vulnerable than men, particularly physically. And men almost always are the perpetrators of physical violence against women. I am not dismissing or downplaying any of that. However unfortunately, due to the beyond atrocious acts of a very few men, and our tendency to extrapolate the extremes out on to the majority, masculinity has become a somewhat blasphemous word. And the nature of toxic femininity has been given a free pass to manifest itself in society.

This void in masculinity has ironically promoted and heightened 'Toxic Masculinity' even more. This is due to the fact that the more considerate people are always the ones to question and reflect on their actions first, resulting in them withdrawing and questioning all their behaviours. Meanwhile those that don't care and never cared have all this space to move into and rise to the top. Andrew Tate is an incredible example of this.

In my opinion this is all underpinned by a lack of God and religion in our society. We have become fragmented individuals, worshipping false idols and conflating religion with politics. Our identities are scattered in so many different directions and there is no underlying moral ethic to guide us.

We need to stop overlaying spectrums of good and evil on politics and other social constructs. Each and every one of us has the capacity for malevolence and goodness, granted some tilt more to one side or the other, but nevertheless no one is immune to the spectrum. The spectrum of good and evil is what religion attempted to conceptualise and rectify. It definitely got things wrong, and there are many outdated aspects to the religious texts. However, it would be stupid to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Nietzsche proclaimed that we had murdered God and that we would never have enough water to wash the blood off our hands. That's something to think about.

Until next time,

Ollie