A reflection on violence

We go on living and naturalizing things that are not natural. Many times we can no longer perceive how much violence there is around us, in our day to day, in our actions ...

We ended up believing that violence is only in murder, in fights, in robberies, in tortures, etc.

And we do not realize how much violence there is in our words about other people, whether in judgments, malicious comments, complaints, or when we feel entitled to call the attention of the other with a cruel pride, as if we were not also subject to errors.

Violence is in the upbringing and education of children. In comparisons, in ruthless criticisms, in the lack of attention, in offenses, in the castration of their innocence, in the repression of their spontaneity, in the silence that is imposed on them, in the ridicule, in the lies that are told.

Violence is in our unbridled consumption, in total disregard for life and in the care of natural resources, in the toxicity that is thrown on the land, in the extraction aiming only at profit. It is in our architecture, in several aspects of our culture in general. It is in the economy, in the stark inequality of income distribution, in the exploitation and alienation of the worker.

It is in the daily corruption, in the abuse of power, in stupid communication, in the lack of patience, tolerance and empathy. In not accepting oneself.

It is in machismo, which is bad for everyone. In distorted and repressive sex education. In charging for standards, which generate so much violence, even from people with their own bodies, with their own being, making them not accept and violate themselves daily feeling ugly, not intelligent, incapable, insufficient, without love without energy, without the will to live.

It is in the amount of garbage we produce, in the lack of awareness that there is no “throw away”.

It's at work that we don't like, but we endure. We die a little each day for keeping it, not seeing the countless possibilities we have, or not believing that we can choose other things.

It is in disrespect to beings in general. It is so introjected as natural, that we don't even realize it, because we believe that we are superior to them.

I'm in traffic, when I judge others because I think I drive much better, complain and curse all the time, even if only for me to hear ...

There are countless other violence present in our daily lives that are not seen as such because we have already anesthetized ourselves and become accustomed to them. I'm sure you can see many others not mentioned here.

That we can not only reflect on the subject, but create alternatives to live in an increasingly less violent way with each other and with nature. After all, we are a great living organism and if I harm any being, I harm myself. May this awareness become as natural as violence today is.