Disempowerment and Rapes in India

(An earlier essay that I wrote on the horrific frequency of rapes in India.)

A series of observations:

1. India disillusions its citizens with a theoretical promise of democracy and freedom (we do celebrate an "Independence Day") and a reality of utterly shameless corruption, disempowerment and humiliation in daily life.
   
   
2. There is a drive to power, fulfillment and autonomy in any normal human male.
   
   
3. This drive is thereby strangled and trampled upon in daily life in India, leading to immense neurosis, feelings of helplessness and despair.
   
   
4. Men and women therefore become despotic, exercising their power in vile and criminal ways.
   
   
5. Indian women routinely exercise their despotism in internal family dynamics, while Indian men, being by nature more brutish, want a more tangible exercise of that un-channeled energy.
   
   
6. They either exercise their drive to power by being arrogant and domineering to the men weaker than them, or to harass, humiliate and assault any un-defended woman that they can.  They will rape a little girl or an elderly woman if they get a chance.  A rape is of course about sexual gratification, but it is as well an act of wiping away the experience of being an impotent incel that one lives through every day.
   
   
7. The society can keep prosecuting the rapists, but it is the society itself that is producing them.  What factors in Indian society are leading to an ever-present population of rapists?  An important factor is the vicious cycle of being humiliated and dominated by ones stronger than oneself, and then indulging in the humiliation and domination of ones weaker than oneself.
   
   
8. The default condition of a man and a woman in India is that of having been socially and systemically raped.  In many (too frequent) cases, this rape is the actual act of physical assault and physical rape.
   
   
9. To solve this problem in the long term, we have to look at slowly reducing the almost universal occurence of the dehumanizing exercise of domination in India.  That phenomenon starts at the very top of political and state machinery, and continues in families, schools and marriages.  We are a country of bullies and the bullied.
   
   
10. Without checks and balances, despotism is inevitable.  And in a despotic region, those who the despots treat with disdain will occasionally and brutally erupt in ways that will seem exceptional but should be expected.