We are surprised that a crocodile is so tender as to carry its eggs from one place to another until its offspring are born, or that a panther is loving and carefully holds its offspring by the neck. In another scene we see both with unusual ferocity. That's the way all brains work, and ours. It goes from empathy to ferocious attack.
What happens is that other animals do not project their mental, biographical contents, their envy, their revenge; they have no inhabitants in their minds, no personal histories, no nefarious characters to attack by projecting them outside. They do not need explanations for their attacks because they are part of their subsistence.
And humans are inhabited by biographical histories, by group pressures and other incentives to break down the barriers that prevent us from being the panther that attacks. Beings with weak defences to keep instincts under control, in this case death instincts, given their limited development as humans. Because a rapist wants to kill the essence of the person. And the arsonist hates life, he wants revenge. I treated one of them, the attack was against his father, projected in a pine forest. A person with an emotional block and weak intelligence.
A multitude of humans who live by imitation. Influencers have been created for them. It has become a way of life. And this is in the background of the rapists, the arsonists.
The fact that the visual media show a fire in detail and never a detailed description by biologists, environmentalists and other experts describing the terrible damage it does to everyone's life. They only see what excites them, in many cases sexually. The fire. This human crocodile has become ferociously functional, and the day before yesterday it was a gentle being. And that it is published that the catastrophe in the Canary Islands was caused by a man who is on the street with charges. It indicates that society, all of us, the judges and the politicians who legislate, have a vague, diffuse feeling of what fires mean for the planet and climate change. I accuse them and my neighbours who let the saplings on their pavements dry out of that coldness of gaze, which can be guessed in the eyes of the feline prior to the attack. It is part of the lack of sensitivity to feel what is alive.
Rapists, apart from passing to a functioning brain with structures of the predatory animals we have inside us, also imitate, but there is something else, they don't know human sexuality, they are frustrated because their organ only works if there is violence, if they argue with their partner. They don't know about love-sex. And another thing is that they do it in groups to show their friends that they are very manly, that the whole herd is manly, because like all imitative beings they don't know, nor are they sure if they are manly enough or not. That is why we wake up every morning fearing the appearance of another herd. Or another imitative behaviour, the last one that has fallen off a cliff taking a selfie, another imitative behaviour to belong to the group of the "selfies", to give food for a slight exhibitionism. To belong to a group.
And the final point. The media should be accused of being ignorant of the elemental part of the human being, I correct, they live partly from that, from addressing the elemental part with their trash TV and their most eccentric, violent or rogue headlines. I think they are activating the imitative personalities, "as if" personalities, by giving them the opportunity to imitate.
Already politicians who perceive neither nature, nor science, nor culture and it manifests itself in their programmes and in their conduct, which could be applied in the improvement as humans.
José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Specialist in Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis