Real World Horrors
Man's real inhumanity.
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The true horrors of real life are far scarier than anything written or filmed. These days,
we don't even need to leave our homes to brush up against an almost surreal quality of
inhumanity. And for better or worse, consciously or not, we tend to block out those
disturbing thoughts and images, content to think either"that only happens in movies" or
"it only happens to other people".
But it doesn't. It happens everyday, in every city, just around the corner from our seemingly
idyllic lives, even if that life seems boring. It could always be so much worse. The scary
part of life is that which goes beyond the simply tragic, the part which seems so much
more extreme than anyone expects, the part which truly horrifies a person beyond mere morbid
fascination.
What are those things which so many in the "civilized" first-world countries turn a blind
eye towards? What are those events and situations which would make people physically sick
to know about, which would make them tremble in fear or anger, which would make them run
back and embrace anything they formerly percieved in their lives to be a nightmare?
A simple car accident is unfortunate; a death at the scene is tragic; but the stuff of real
nightmares is seeing someone splattered all over the roadway.
Depression with thoughts of suicide is a matter for sympathy; actual suicide is tragic with
a sense of loss and even regret; but when a person who has decided that life isn't worth
living and they sell themselves off to a foreign snuff film company - that is truly horrible.
The horror doesn't necessarily lie in the fact this person wants to die, its that another
person will active take steps to kill them, on film, and yet another person gets their kicks
watching that film. A life has ended, that person will no longer be around, and the people
who cared about him or her have lost them forever, except on film. Think about that situation
and maybe you will feel that black nausea as well. Imagine being that person, knowing that
within a specified time frame, you consciously know your life is about to end. What are
the thought in your mind? What is happening to the people around you as the film director
lays out the scene - "this happens and then this, and then to kill him."
Does it happen fast, or slow, a growing inevitability that this is the last thing you will
ever do? Is it painful? Are you even conscious? And what happens afterwards? Is your body
unceremoniously dumped somewhere, and you just become another missing person? Or do you get
some sort of respect from these people making money off your death? Do you get shipped home?
Who knows what happened to you. Ands what about people who cared about you and all they have
left of your life is this film?
Think about it.
THINK ABOUT IT!
And maybe you, too, will cry inside, and shudder in fear and loathing. And you will be sad
and angry, and feel sick to your stomach. And then you can go back to your life, embrace
your own nightmares, put these terrible thoughts behind you, like a bad dream, and make
every effort not to look back, or acknowledge that it happened. Thinking that ignoring it
will make it go away. Because, of course, this isn't part of your life.
Until the moment that it actually is.
Then you will know true horror and fear. And there won't be any escaping it.
And what about the other stories which flash past in the media headlines? Sound bites, plain text, usually without any images? Words, just words. We skim over them, glad our lives don't resemble them.
In India, the caste system is alive and still dictating how people live their lives. In August, 2001, two teenagers were hung by their own families for disregarding caste rules of behavior when they continued to see and date each other, out of love.
Their own familes took them out to a remote barn, tortured them and then hung them the rafters until their breathe and life drained out of them. Parents, who created their lives, nurtured them, loved them, turned and killed them, because they dared to love someone and associate with someone outside of their caste.
Is it really the family's fault for abiding by their societal customs, no matter how abhorrent others might find them? Is the tragedy in those customs which prescribes death as a remedy over something else less extreme? Is the real horror of it that few people speak out against it, or do anything to oppose it?
What would make you kill your own child? What drives those people in "civilized" countries to do just that? In August 2001, a father killed his wife, children and inlaws before being captured behind his mother's house. In July, 2001, a mother drowned all of her children before calling her husband and police to the house. At least once a year, the media reports on teenage mothers abandoning their newborns. Some depositing them at hospitals or churches or police stations, in the hopes of being found and cared for, but there are those who just dump the babies in the nearest trashcan.
The media even reported once that a girl had given birth at her prom in the washroom, and once cleaning herself up, disposed of the baby and went back to the prom as if nothing had happened.