402 - Mailbox - "The West is falling"
Two readers share similar examples of extreme violence from both sides of the planet
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Reader email subject titled The West is falling:
“Shit. I assume you've see this. Multiple infants stabbed. Modern men in the video doing little to stop the atrocities.
Shit not a great start to the weekend. My apologies Jeth.”
The attached video was related to this new story:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-stabbing-knife-annecy-attack-b2354354.html
This is the second video this week that I’ve received from readers referencing knife attacks in public places by deranged lone males.
Reader email subject titled: Jeth! :
“Hi Jeth,
Been bloody ages, hope you are well. Attaching this video, it's fresh (happened yesterday in HK)
Nasty as fuck-not sure if you can use it but wanted to share with you.
Let me know if you're able to view it.
Also shared with that guy who runs Real violence for Knowledge channel.”
The attached video was a truly savage and relentless attack on two young women in a shopping mall in Hong Kong.
https://hongkongfp.com/2023/06/02/two-shoppers-dead-in-brutal-stabbing-at-hong-kong-mall-suspect-arrested
Perhaps the virus of mentally ill humans now attacking the helpless with knives has spread in all directions of the compass?
It’s of note to me that both of the men that sent these email examples were themselves, fathers with families, like myself and both trained in survival oriented fighting.
There is a deep revulsion at the idea of such images as these as they become avatars of our own children or loved ones - those we would give our lives to try and protect from such harm. And so, there is also a deep anger that no one else seems to be helping as that victim could be our family member in our minds.
The world is not a safe place but to make it such, something that we are being corralled into daily under the guise of “progress”, would be the end of many aspects of our own humanity and certainly as far as men are concerned, the end of a core characteristic as the first reader correctly points out. For in seeking safety at all times we remove our drive to risk for a better reality.
If we feel threatened to go out in public by what we see in the media, we will feel better with increased restrictions to make us feel safer and on it goes foolishly into a far darker place.
That the news stories about the incident in France were filled with what the western elite leaders are saying about it, as though we even need others to express our feelings for us as well.
Perhaps collective shock amplified through every outlet will help avert attention from the political woes of a certain vertically challenged president?
Perhaps large scale national discontent can be divided by showing the attacker as a “certain type” and setting the crowds against each other?
Will a few token words boost a rating?
Or sooth the horror of the families effected?
Heal wounds?
Everyone’s got an angle they’re working to capitalise on this.
Politicians, the presstitutes that work for them, the “guy who runs Real violence for Knowledge channel” and I’m afraid to say, myself in fairness, for even replying in public.
I’m reminded reading these too, that sometimes awful stuff just happens and sometimes there may be little that one could do to avoid or maybe even deal with it. But being aware of the possibility and prepared in some way is a far better position to be in.
No guarantees but a fighting chance.
Apart from the preceding thoughts, here is a key takeaway for me, a quote buried in all the thousands of words and videos being posted about this incident (the second seems unreported in the western media):
‘You’d never think this could be possible in such a peaceful environment’, says Annecy resident
Here is the clue to the only true counter to this kind of incident for us as individuals who take responsibility for the safety of ourselves and our loved ones.
I watch the world around me and analyse what I believe I see.
I can’t make it safe or change anything but I can start by admitting to myself that there is a real problem, that it just could effect me or those I love.
I never complacently assume safety and expect no one’s help but my own as I will never unthinkingly hand responsibility for that over to some entity outside of myself.
Here is my focus and the starting point.
Thank you to the two readers that emailed these examples in. Jeth
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Thanks, Jeth