|
There's a photo I have been looking over for days now. A deceased young boy is being held up by the hair of his head in the Middle East by a United States soldier who seems to be ecstatic about his kill. Off to the side, someone's stray dusty shoe. This isn't a diatribe against the US army. That kind of violence and demolition has been exercised throughout time and history, one group against another. The world as a whole has become desensitized because of how much violence we have been subjected to. We have become immune to feeling guilt if we kill someone who meant something to someone else. Objectification is when a living, human-being is considered an object instead of a real person. Killing people is only one of the things in which a person could do to another that would be considered objectification. When we think that a certain group of people or just a single person deserves to die, then we are objectifying them. Even if its obtaining something like copyrighted music or something someone else has invented, we are objectifying them. A person driving a car could be seen to us as just a car and that would mean we are objectifying them by turning the human into an object. Since objects have no pulse or means of thought, objectifying them means that we are allowing ourselves to become acquainted with them as objects. How do you think that the objectification of people would affect the world if everyone did it? The universe that we live in is a mirrored image of an objectifying world. Locking up our personal things because we are frightened for them is one way humans are affected by this type of behavior. Don't expect help from people anymore if you are the victim of a purse-snatching. Objectification is something that should not be passed down to our kids. We may not even see the kinds of violence that could increase our children's views towards violence on television. What if we are already all matured? Overcoming objectification begins from inside, and takes a fresh perspective of sorts. Before we started becoming immune to the negative things in life, we viewed the world differently. I read an essay on that particular topic, and it made me realize how easy it is for us to get used to our view of things. Objectification is going to only be eradicated if we first start with ourselves, which is something Keith Raniere of NXIVM expresses within his company's mission, with the hopes of seeing a better tomorrow. More details can be found at Nxivm. An alternate link for this is Nxivm - Executive Success Programs.
Related Articles -
Individuals, People, Universe, World, community, society, Neighborhood, violence, destruction, objectives, self improvements,
| 
