Why are we spinning on and on in
a compulsive cycle of betrayal? One who betrayed once will betray twice, the
one who will be betrayed will betray another, this is its genesis, but it
wasn’t equipped with an ending, unfortunately. And the question comes, why do we betray to
begin with? From history to the present we have endless examples of betrayal,
some that might relate to minor thing that relate to our monotone suburban life, some that entered our
history books.
And still, where does betrayal
come from, is it a second product of envy, is it a product of our consumerist
society or is it even something avoidable. Betrayal is learnt, it is not
impregnated in our genes, is the result of a constant and restless power
struggle for resources that are available which are limited, a basic concept
from economy. A struggle for survival
combined with and a communicational
handicap, a fear of opposition or being put in front of opinions and acts that
are outside of one’s comfort zone, the misinterpretations usually lead to
aggressiveness and hostility.
Betrayal fall in to a natural
antagonistic equation with no possible win-win situation, in order to advance
this discussion even more, a question will find its way in – How do we even
define betrayal? It something that comes
down to the personal perception of an action, the perception itself is the
result of a multitude of past experiences that solidified in to interpretative
functions. Betrayal, in the form of a experience, can be define as an social
actor’s actions and activities which are in a both an ethical and deontological
disconnect with the expectations that others have from him as the result of the
social and professional position that he/she/it holds. To be complete, the
disconnect should be done with intention, it has to be done with a destructive
intention and the other actor from the scheme must have a certain degree of
trust in he/she/it that derivers from certain affective aspects or from a
social or professional status that the other social actor holds.
Putting it in a more simplistic
form, betrayal is mocking of trust, love, ethicality and friendship. It is a weapon of social destruction which
leaves deep marks in both the personal and the collective consciousness. It is
a disregard to the most sacred values that humans hold, a path of suffering and
misery followed by those that take part in selfish actions that aim only at
personal gain.
As I mentioned, it must be
destructive, intentionally done and violating a connection that is based on
trust in order to fulfill a selfish desire. A natural law is broken, the
effects of experiencing betrayal are deep and hard to heal, making a full
recovery almost impossible.
I would like to extend this
concept even more, is betrayal something that can make its way only between
humans, what about the man-nature relationship, is it immune from betrayal? If
we look a little around us, betrayal can be the most representative key-word,
being an animal itself, man abused and killed with no shame other members of
the Animal Kingdom and distorted the natural growth and harmony of Nature.
In our age and even in the
centuries that had past, people tried to motivate their hate and atrocities
through the power of religious authority, disregarding many times the
principles that they preached themselves, they ruined the very essence of
humanity and went against the Natural Law.
Man betrayed Nature, the natural
law, resulting in a limitation of the brother’s right to happiness.
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