Broken Victorian children, Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
A brief comment on the relationship between Psychology, Religion, and Terrorism. In the Victorian semi-autobiographical novel, The Way of All Flesh (full text), author Samuel Butler says,
"If their wills were well broken in childhood, to use an expression then much in vogue, they would acquire habits of obedience..." Once this psychological wound (the archeotrauma*) is created, its ongoing presence can easily be mistaken for the existence of a God.
When post-trauma psychological control consists of years of religious indoctrination then layers of repression accumulate behind the original wound.
If such a compounded trauma is deliberately corrupted at any point then it becomes a source of "anti-life" such as that Hamas used to commit atrocities in Israel on the 7th of October 2023.
The type of behaviour exhibited by the terrorists does not exist in the natural world (i.e. it is not transmitted from generation to generation by DNA).
The writer George Orwell praised The Way of All Flesh saying,
"A great book because it gives an honest picture of the relationship between father and son." A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh, wrote about it in his essay A Household Book, published in a collection of his essays, Not That It Matters: "Once upon a time I discovered Samuel Butler; not the other two, but the one who wrote The Way of All Flesh, the second-best novel in the English language. I say the second-best, so that, if you remind me of Tom Jones, or The Mayor of Casterbridge, or any other that you fancy, I can say, of course, that one is the best." In 1998, Random House's The Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. A Crucifix (from the Latin cruci fixus meaning "(one) fixed to a cross") is an image of Jesus Christ on the Cross, as distinct from a bare Cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the Cross is referred to in English as the Corpus (Latin for "body").
*The archeotrauma (alt. archaeotrauma) is the psychological wound human beings, horses, and other animals sustain when their spirit is broken. Very common in Dover, UK.
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