Monday, September 5, 2011

Violence of It

This post has been noticed by the person in question.
And commented upon.
Just check the violence of it yourself.
The blogger there is not the run of the mill European-he is an exceptionally obnoxious specimen so not much general conclusions can be drawn from his behaviour. But then history also has examples where a runaway character can play havoc on human race.
Psychopathy is an extreme phenomena. In spite of its tremendous achievements in scientific fields even now west is grappling with the problem of understanding it.
Two very strange examples can be presented.
Charles Gurmukh Shobhraj (what a mater piece of a name combining three faiths!) retired as a celebrity in Paris after lots of mayhem in India and around. Very strange indeed. How can a bikini killer be a celebrity? This stretches the imagination a bit too far.
Second example is of the the cult of Nikal Seyn mentioned by William Dalrymple in the Last Mughal.
This is the cult that worships an English commander Nicholson who was responsible of killing a large number of people during the battle of Delhi in 1857-a psychopath.
A strange thing again. It defies explanation because the sheer incomprehensibility of the phenomena of sociopathy-psychopathy.
There might be more examples.
The blogger in question is one such example.
There is a battalion of loyal followers there.
They think they are getting their daily fill of intellectual excitement-which they are but at what cost? They know it not at all. It is pathetic that people in their sixties and seventies are subjecting themselves to the degradation of using that blog for interacting with people-a continuing tragedy.
Having experienced a few such people from very close quarters the mechanism can be summarized as follows. A person things that though this fellow is treating others very badly but he'll not do that to me-he is so nice to me. And this is true. A sociopath is in general very nice to his victims-till he decides to strike.
In case of sociopaths it is social devastation of the victims that ensues in extreme cases (the cases of serial killers) the victims have much more serious consequences.
But then that is what makes sociopathy an extremely difficult problem to handle. A victim is very reluctant to accept that he had been had.


There is a Tradition which told the story of an old blind woman whose son was sick. One day people started saying words of consolation to her. She was alarmed and asked whether her son is dead. She took people's silence as the confirmation as she should have. That is when she supplicated that O Allah do not test me with this one. We do not know about the authenticity of this Tradition but we can always supplicate to our Lord Most High for freeing human race of testing through sociopaths and psychopaths.

Accept O Allah by mere Mercy of Yours.