The Humanity of Oppression

I think the best way to describe the interrelationship between and among humans, is oppression.


It starts with the parents and the child, and then it propagates outward to between siblings, and then outward again between strangers, who then cycle backward to between husband and wife, who then renew the cycle when they become the first part of the equation with parents and the child.


We seek to control others for our own gain. Even when the gain benefits others, or when it is benevolent, there is still gain to be had, and the extent of the oppression depends on weakness of the other, the strength of the oppressor, and the ability of the other to escape.


Where does such weakness come from? That is to say, why is there oppression at all? There would not be oppression (or very much of it at all), if there wasn't the weakness in mankind that allows for oppression to be developed. We are the cause of our own oppression, in other words. What are we lacking, that we cause it?

There is much to ponder.

-David