Is Man a Beast?

Hello all, now, when I am writing this it is only 5 hours left till New Year. Maybe, some of you, when you see what I will going to talk about, say that tis is not a topic for a New year's Eve, but I think it is perfect. I think that we should talk about bad things that were happening trough history to some of us, and I think that global New Year's resolution should be to be better. Better people. For us. For others. For everyone and everything.

At the begging of the pandemic I was writting a bit aobut people and what they can become in situations that are not good for them. Here you can see that post. In that post I was talking about people during pandemic, while we are all equal.

I am pretty sure that you all remeber people in markets fighting over toilet paper and fluor that they actually do not need. But, what is happening when someone thinks that he or she has more rights on the paper.

What is happening when someone is stronger than other people? When someone feels power and know that others are totally powerless. What will that 'powerful person' do? How cruel a human being can be?

A couple days ago I was watcign great movie called '12 Years a Slave'. It is about a man, free man, who by accident becomes a slave. As the title of the movie says he was a slave for 12 years, and during his journey he has met many people, from good people, who are trying to help slaves to people who are sure that they have a right to torture, humilate and kill their slaves.

Thanks to some bad people he becomes a slave and thanks to one good man he becomes free again.

At the beginning this man is free, and he is a good man and a bit naive. He has nice family and he is an artist, musician, thanks to evil people, who cheated him, he ended up as a slave. First, he was bought by a good man, who has not very good employees on his holding. That man, who is a supervisor and is not an owner is not a rich or powerful man is doing some terrible things to slaves.

That only shows us that people, who are powerful usually are not as cruel as those who have nothing, but they think that they have something. Something like those capos in German concentration camps, during World War II. They were also in camps, they were not free, just the Germans gave them some power. Some of them, of course, used that to help other prisoners, but some of them used that so be as cruel as possible.

I do not know what is that in a man to make a beast out of him, when he should be the best possible. There were concentration camps in whole Europe, in Poland, in Serbia, in Croatia. For example in those camps in Croatia, prisoners were Croatian people and in prison were Serbs, Roma and Jews. It is interesting to say that all those people lived in Kingdom of Yugoslavia before the World War II. And, also there were some Croatian people, who were not working in those camps, who were helping Serbians and Jews. And, some prisoners were doing horrible things to other prisoners. For example, they were reporting others for various things, they were beating them... all that in order to get more food or less drubbing.

Which shows us that some people, of course, risk a lot, and give their best to help those who need help, and some other people think that they can do anything to those who are helpless, while they are helpless.

Now, to get back to the movie, in order to save his slave life, the good man who owns him, has to give him to another man. That man thinks that slaves are his private property because he bought them. He is even cruel to his own wife, which means that maybe, he is just a bad person, but he is notbeating his wife, he is beating only his slaves. Even a girl he is in love with. All the time he shows that he is powerful and that they are nothing. That they mean nothing, that they are worthless.

And, what makes one man think he is better than any other man?

Why did Germans during the World War II think that they are better than Slavic folks or Jews? What makes white people think that they are better than black people?

Why does color of skin make someone good or bad? Why does money make one man more powerful than the other man?

No matter how much you have, no matter what do you believe in, no matter where you are from you are equal. We are all equal. We are all the same.

One man can only be a good or bad and that is all.

So, when someone else needs help, you should help if you can help. Specially if you are also in a similar problem. People, who share problems, undeerstand each other, and owe each other to help, as much as they can help.

So, in New Year help everyone you can, and if you cannot help, do not make their situation worse than it is.

Being nicer to others is perfect New Year's resolution, and if we all decide that, I am sure that in the next year the world will be a better place to live in.