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Free yourself from victimisation!
To defend a cause or to be held hostage to it?
This is the elliptical question drawn from the debate on victimisation and the place and role of victims in society.
To burdened souls, it is tempting to ignore the cry of wounded hearts. Its resounding echoes, while failing to produce the voice of feeling, conceal the risk of triggering guilt extended to the maximum, a possibility of opening up the field of responsibility to the minimum. If experiencing the feeling does not allow one to be surprised by the hostility nourished against those who are called maintenance agents of the memory of victims, how can one play the naive when the enterprise of awakening the memory is intended to be anything but abstract tales of the hare and the tortoise? This enterprise is perceived by some as dangerous and is therefore fought against in this perception. And since the lexical element has fallen, is there any fighting without a strategy, without weapons, without arguments, without drama and ultimately without victims?
Victim, a term from which victimisation is derived, holds a position from which, in principle, no one should seek a lifetime tenure. And yet, if the media’s reflux is to be believed, fashionable victimisation is an easily accessible refuge behind the walls of which individuals are busy leading a permanent concert of lamentations…
