Monday, February 21, 2011

Violence is the only solution


If violence is defined as positive (not as in good, but more the opposite of negative or void) force used in a specific direction to achieve a desired outcome, then almost any action used to rectify any situation could be construed as violence, even if, in social terms, it is considered non-violent. Passive-aggression is a perfect example of this, but it could be taken even further to say that Gandhi used violent means to achieve home-rule for India. He used a positive force in a specific direction to achieve a desired outcome.

In that sense it could quite simply be said that any time you try to achieve a result you are using violence, it is only a matter of degrees. You have used your willpower to affect a result.

The only way to avoid violence (at least perpetrating violence) is to avoid attempting getting what you want in any situation. It even comes down to typing this answer correctly; I am enforcing my will on the computer keyboard.

Violence is the ONLY way to solve a problem

Two people come out of a building and into a story

It was on the 25 October 1984 and the time was 07h15 a.m., when my mother and my father entered the doors of  Mthatha Hospital. My mother was pregnant carrying me for 8 ½   months, “I was in great pain”, said Thobeka. The time was around about 14h30 pm, my parents come out the hospital holding hands and they come out of the building not carrying a baby. I asked my father… “Dad what happened, you have spent seven hours in hospital and you come out with out me?”

This was what my father told me, “you were under weight my son, you struggled to breath and we were forced to live you behind. Three days after, my mother went to the hospital alone, because my father had to go and work, so that he can be able to support us. “The moment I entered the hospital, I went straight to the toil and I prayed” said my mother. According to my mother, “every one was smiling and that gave me hope and the Doctor came to me and said “your son is ready to be discharged”. My mother walked out of the hospital holding me in her hands and in to a new life for me.