Containing Thoughts

It's been 2 and a half weeks where officially my main task is now my Masters Thesis... what has this brought ? 4-5 hours a day of reading, reading, reading

about violence, conflict, death, repression, discrimination, hatred, nationalist interests, exclusion, expelling, isolation.... and the more I read the more I wonder

How is man capable of becoming so inhumane,

what drives people to the point where they can hurt, take advantage, abuse, others.

Experience?

Conviction?

Human Nature?

Is it written in our genetic code?

...Is it really?

Can we be predisposed to ill-treat others who really and truly are just our reflection through a different lense?

I wonder what it is that characterises people's frame of mind,

how for some of us all we see is people, person a,b,c,d,e .... irrespective of shape, size, colour, language....

I wonder what other people's thoughts say to them,

where do they come from?

How does a mind discern so greatly?

Discern, label, discriminate..

Maybe these are confused and jumbled thoughts, but I have them every day... now more than ever

I guess it's the result of reading over and over what unconceivable actions some humans can carry out, it just drives me to ask how are mine and those people's brains so different?

Could I be driven to that someday?

Is it animalesque behaviour that lies in all of us? If so what is it buried under? What sparks it?

I wonder if in an extreme case, in a fight for survival anyone can be driven to harm someone else...

It's just I'm not really reading about everybody's survival here...

So is it solely down to values?

I guess that's a long convoluted debate then....

Maybe someone will pick it up with me sometime soon

Back to the reports now..