It Is Not Easy To Become Sane

Thai society was rocked last week by a particularly grisly crime. A 13yo girl sleeping on an overnight train to Bangkok was attacked in her bunk, violently raped, strangled and thrown out of the window like litter. An autopsy determined she died from skull fracture. A 22yo rail employee confessed after he was caught selling the victim's iPhone.

The murderer (in a bulletproof vest) reenacts his crime for the investigating team.

Thai social media has been inundated with rage. You expect a degree of irrationality but I've yet to see anything like this. They're not even making sense. The death penalty already exists for murder but people don't want him facing the firing squad for murder, they want the murderer executed for rape.  

Don't Punish Your Self.

As a species, we are farcically exploitable but this is not Natural. We've been conditioned with corrupted sentiment and sensitised with emotional abuse to the point where we're pathetically, tragically fragile. Our emotional feelings consistently make us faceplant. We don't do ourselves any favours when we get emotional, that's for sure.

I'm substantially less emotional these days but I had an incredibly emotional childhood. My siblings and I were forced to contend with a mother who was hysterical when she wasn't catatonic. I carried residual frustration and bitterness throughout my teenage years and into my late 20s.

The remarkable thing is that I was aware that I more tightly strung than most, but the idea that my feelings were in my control never really occurred to me. It was just the way I felt. How could I help it? People were making me feel that way. 

I see a lot of people in a similar position.

How To Break A Human Mind.

"O yet a nobler task awaites thy hand;
Yet what can Warr, but endless warr still breed,
Till Truth, & Right from Violence be freed,
And Public Faith cleard from the shamefull brand
Of Public Fraud. In vain doth Valour bleed
While Avarice, & Rapine share the land."

- John Milton

If you hear "I hate you, Mom", you need to stop imposing your psychotic tyranny on children.