Going Dark

There is a theatrical term called 'Going Dark' either meaning that the auditorium is plunged into darkness prior to a bit of action or that the theatre itself, usually provincial, is closing down for a period of time, possibly permanently. You might have noticed that I am interested in the goings on of the Islamic State, possibly because the attack on 07/7/2005 sent me 'doollally tap mun' (insane). I over reacted to this atrocity, possibly because I was abroad at the time or because cannabis was coursing through my veins. In the wake of Friday's attacks, as an interested third party layperson with his own blog, I would like to make a suggestion. I would like to suggest that we as a society 'Go Dark'. We shut down our incessant, economic, corporate machine and we tone down the decadence. I would even echo Cromwell and cancel Christmas this year. This symbolic gesture will show to all and sundry that we are taking their 'terrorism' seriously. Not fight or flight but rather curl up in a ball. I've never been a fan of 'Carry on Regardless' something that we (Jung's Collective Unconscious) have been doing since 9/11. There is an awful lot of anger and grief underneath the surface. There was a line of Psychological thought in 1997 that said that the hundreds and thousands grieving publicly for Lady Diana were not actually grieving for her but grieving for themselves and for the pain that they had experienced in their own lives. Diana was symbolic. We (The collective unconscious) have not grieved since 9/11, instead we have carried on regardless. The seed of discord was planted heavily in America on this date and the explosion of anger in rioting, police killings can all be directly linked back to this visual trauma. The pain has always been there since slavery, 9/11 cut the vein and allowed the nation to bleed. It has been bleeding ever since. The Tunisian on Friday was 23, The Charleston shooter was 21, this would make them 9 and 7 when 9/11 happened. A generation of children watched those planes going into the twin towers and those children were traumatized then and there and that trauma is coming out now. We (the collective unconscious) need to stop. We need to curl up in a ball and nurture ourselves instead of running headlong into the next shooting, beheading. Selfish societies lead to selfish acts. Of course, none of the above can be substantiated, none of it is scientific but it is intuitive. These as usual are the ramblings of a mad man, a mad man who has decided since 2005 to curl up in a ball.