Diagram Of Ship's Bottom

Victims and victimizers

Julius Caesar Jacob in his book "How to stop making the victim and the executioner not to become" made me laugh like crazy, saying things in themselves very simple and very true.

And perhaps for the fact that they are simple and true, beyond our mind with astonishing speed.

We carry an extract from the book. A shift that, when I read, I had my mind back to my first contact with the Feldenkrais.

time was I was trying to make a victim myself.

attitude that I believe will grow with it such care and attention that at times threatens to become part of us.

is how Jacob proposes that we understand the problem.

[Editor's note: the author has just finished the show by example that the pistol accidentally goes out the window while you're sitting on the toilet and makes you dry

that the real victims are those where the perpetrator is a stranger, if you know it, if you see him in the face, then it is a false executioner]

At a traffic light a car brakes suddenly in front of a bus, the buffers.

You are on the bus and because of braking the old man behind you, stab you with an umbrella.

You rip the umbrella out of hand and smash him on the head.

There are enough here, victims and executioners, for your tastes?

analyze the case.

chain functional victims-perpetrators of the event

1, executioner

the lights

1, victim

motorists

2 ° executioner

motorists

2 nd victim

the bus driver

3 ° executioner

's bus driver

3rd victim

motorists

4 ° executioner

the bus driver

4 th victim

the old

5 ° executioner

the old

5 th victim

you

6 ° executioner

you

6 th victim

the old

see how anyone can do can make all the victims and the executioners even within the same event.

(...)

[Editor's note: The author proceeds to debunk each victim and the executioner all, showing from time to time those who feel like victims, in reality it has been wronged, but it was the case with his behavior]

Fourth combination:

4 ° executioner

the bus driver

the 4th victim

the old

but the old lady is really a victim of ' bus driver who braked suddenly?

No.

Lo is of itself that has failed to keep firmly under braking.

Which bus should always do. Of course if it goes

unsheathing an umbrella looking for a victim to pierce, it did not 'do the material possibility' time, to be held somewhere.

But the fault is hers alone.

Then in the fourth combination the victim and the perpetrator are the same person.

The fourth combination becomes:

4 ° executioner

the old

4 th victim

the old Fifth

combination:

5 ° executioner

the old

5 th victim

you

You, who are the victim? In the old

you plant an umbrella in the ribs?

I know you'd say yes.

Everybody likes a little 'play the victim to be pitied.

But once again it yourself, you're the perpetrator, not the old lady.

Sorry, but you see an old lady with the umbrella stripped and you're going to put in front?

With sharp pointed metal tip right against your ribs?

But then you're an idiot.

I say, but the bus was full and I had no other place to put.

Wrong answer.

there is always another place to get on a bus, even when full.

Just ask permission and go to another location, away from the umbrella of the old.

I say, if everyone does this, the old woman would remain isolated in a corner of the bus.

E 'exactly what it deserves, the little old lady. A

an old woman who goes on the bus with his umbrella and pointed stripped in front of him as a foil ready to stab the victim the minimum that can happen is just to remain isolated in a corner and guarded.

But if it happens behind the old woman without I know it, then in this case I can be a victim?

Again, the answer is no.

Only a fool or a neurotic mental masturbations lost in their moves on the bus without looking around.

on buses and subways are all there.

From pickpockets to musicians who have never studied music. From the tone deaf singers

crazy preachers.

From beggars who do not go away until you have paid the mite old women fencing master with an umbrella.

Devi, look around.

part of the basic safety measures and self-preservation.

It 's like I told you that you consider yourself a victim around in the jungle because a snake bit you or you have been attacked by a tiger.

And what do you expect to find in a jungle? A cart with ice cream

or distributor of newspapers?

So once again you, the executioner.

Your imprudence.

The fifth combination then becomes:

5 ° executioner

you

5 th victim

you

(...)

What we deduce from this analysis ? What if we become victims

the perpetrators are not the others, but ourselves.

(...)

[pages 48-55 Editions Mondadori]