On 07 Dec 2014, at 22:09, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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On 12/7/2014 4:30 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
We are better for the survival, but we might be astonished for the
quality of life, even of the poors. It is very hard to judge. We
have much more depression and suicides, we have much more elderly
people abandoned by their family. We have much more fake
conviviality and superficial happiness. We have new fears and new
subject of despair (like atomic bombs, pollution, prohibition, ...).
I just mean that I am not completely persuaded that the
technological progresses made us more happy.
Of course there's not much depression and suicide in Syria - because
there's so much grief and homicide.
Having lived in a war zone I can affirm that the Syrian people have
been deeply traumatized by their recent experiences. I am sure that
the people of Syria are suffering immensely, and that they have been
psychologically damaged and that their society will be experiencing
PTSD after-shocks – resulting from the extreme trauma of brutal
sectarian war -- for decades to come.
I feel so bad for anyone whose life becomes imprisoned in such a
hell of hate and death that is the inevitable result of a state of
war. I can close my eyes and still picture the soul dead eyes of the
victims of war.. too numbed by their anguish, grief and pain to show
any outward signs of life…. Their bodies burned, broken and maimed
by the industrial scale technology of death visited upon them and
their villages from the sky.
I am positive that there is and will be a massive uptick in clinical
depression and other psychological trauma such as uncontrollable
outbursts of PTSD driven rage and so forth, in Syria over the next
four or five decades as a result of this horrible sectarian war.
Even if it is not diagnosed as being clinical depression and remains
closeted in the unreported regions of the visible reported society
as we outsiders can view it… it is there right now latent and locked
up in all the unbelievable grief that so many Syrians must be
feeling right about now.
War is terrible, as anyone who has seen it (and is not a blood
lusting psychopath) will say. War leaves behind masses of human
wrecks, both physical wrecks, broken maimed, burned bodies.. and
psychological wrecks. War is hell, and the costs of war continue to
accrue long after the war has “ended”.
-Chris
If this can help, as they have stop the aid, apparently for financial
problem reason:
http://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/increase-funding-to-the-world-food-programme-to-support-syrian-refugees?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1417970300
Brent
We are all happy, if we but knew it.
--- Dostoevski
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