Beyond humanity

I was out shopping yesterday and overheard a conversation between one of the ladies working in the shop and a couple of customers.

In truth it was a pretty shocking conversation where she was recounting an incident which had happened in a small West Wales market town this week. A young girl disappeared in broad daylight in the midst of M & S. Her parents were frantic but fortunately quick to act. The police were called and the store locked and thoroughly searched. The girl was found locked in one of the toilets with three men who had cut her hair and were disguising her ready to leave the store ...one does not even want to think what might then have ensued.


The lady recounting the dreadful story was herself both a mother and grandmother and it was clear she could hardly believe that such a thing was happening right here in what is mostly a very kind, friendly, rural ecology. It was the second time this week I had heard someone so incredulous at the cruelty which goes on in our world today, both at a personal and collective level, such as genocide.

In both cases the ladies were sort of shaking their head and saying that they could not even imagine another member of the same human race they were part of, having these kind of thoughts ...never mind carrying them out. Somehow it is even more horrific when there is more than one person's mind involved in cruelty, particularly to children. It adds their mental agreement and conscious intention to such foul behaviour and goes against every grain of the sapiens' of 'homo sapiens'.


It's almost as though parts of the human race are removing themselves by their behaviour from the right even to be called human or humane .....and reverted to a level below much worse than anything we see in the animal kingdom.

At a time when our thinking is becoming more global, and our thinking more collective, is there a real polarity appearing in the human race ?