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The Culture of Impunity

Homini homo lupus

Man is a wolf to man…

Thomas Hobbes



The culture of impunity has been assailed far and wide by those individuals and institutions capacitated to uphold both individual and collective rights. The alienation of this duty under the civil state reveals an important lack of unity and or linkage with the culture of natural humans that comprise the nation within the state. It is a certainty that we as humans are individuals before we are a collective of which has the family for it’s first domain. This is to state that the individual must also be responsible for one’s input into the culture (Rousseau).

Here I will discuss culture as the creation of a culture of impunity as an emergent worldview, a dysfunction of those manifest cultural processes that have arisen from our mal-adaptation and return to be systematically, often at the hands of agents of social control, operational to make us more antisocial in the sense of psychopathy.

Anthropologists claim that through evolution human beings are attempting to classify experiences and then to encode such for communication symbolically. Here the biological nature which has some deterministic basis becomes an external linkage that will develop entropy as all mechanistic linkages will. Here the symbolic linkage of learned beliefs, processes, and artifacts that pertain to a culture are both considered symbolic and material.

Within this framework of an emergent worldview there shall be posited the negative valuation of values, norms, and artifacts have in supporting the culture of impunity.

In continuation of this framework would be the economic basis that both helps the production and consumption of these processes not strictly as a manner of creating wealth and storing such in a value but as a mode in which to manipulate those artifacts, technologies, and processes to foster a culture of impunity.

In continuation of this framework would be the economic basis that both helps the production and consumption of these processes not strictly as a manner of creating wealth and storing such in a value but as a mode in which to manipulate those artifacts, technologies, and processes to foster a culture of impunity.

Totalitarianism seeks to isolate the individual or the group ex-communicado thereby destroying the natural equilibrium that is needed for support from the environment. (In the beginning of 2005 the Darfur/Sudan crisis highlights this tactic). The alienation of the individual or group if by organized forces external to one supports fatalism as expounds by Durkheim. Here I am stating an adaptation of his suicide theory. The fate and the condition here of the living is more contingent under conditions of realism of a controlling external power over such. In this light these persons are suffering from dependency. Their own autonomous range of choices and activities may be insufficient to remedy their predicament. Here the need of assistance radiates beyond the territory of the instant case.

The fatalistic agents of control have created a lesser of two evils culture of tacit condonement of the existence of serious violations of human rights. The continuum of this pattern appears now to penetrate and taint all those events of which learned persons have come to define culture in the positive.

As natural systems that are open bound towards the environment, humans need inputs to be sustainable. Activities in the Darfur area of Sudan demonstrate that war by other means can be perpetuated with impunity from the international communities. Polemics and missives are not in themselves a remedy. It appears that perpetrators of these acts assume carte blanche that interference with activities will be minimal or symbolic.

Thank you for your consideration.

David Nollmeyer