[...]Only a major crisis can transform something politically
impossible into something politically inevitable. If such a
crisis did not exist it had to be created, if it was not real it
had to appear to be real, but there was no way to bring
about significant and profound changes in the economic,
social, political and cultural spheres without a crisis to
support it. [...]
«So the doctrine of violence is the environment in which
Homo sapiens are raised. The great genetics that this animal
possesses means that it has a quality of life that is based on
meat, because no one is dedicated to raising a single breed of
animal for consumption. The beasts that feed on the energy of
plants are plants that we have also modified for our own
consumption. There is no possibility of evolution in the history
of mankind except by subduing the environment, but that
process of mastering our resources gave us the quality of
thought, a thought and reflection that turned into technology.»
The Latin root of the word "violence", violence has been associated
since ancient times with the idea of physical force. The Romans called this
force Vis, vires, the vigour that allows one's will to impose itself on
another's will. Vis tempestatis is Latin for 'the vigour of a storm'. The Code
of Justinian speaks of a 'force majeure, which cannot be resisted' (Vis
magna cui resisti non potest). Vis gave rise to the adjective violentus,
which, when applied to things, can be translated as 'violent', 'impetuous',
'furious', 'uncontrollable', and when applied to persons, as 'strong', 'violent',
'irascible'. From violentus were derived violare ─with the sense of 'to
assault with violence', 'to mistreat', 'to ruin', 'to damage’─ and violentia,
which meant 'impetuosity', 'ardour' (of the sun), 'rigour' (of winter), as well
as 'ferocity', 'rudeness' and 'viciousness'. It should be added that Vis, the
Latin word that gave rise to this family of words, comes from the
prehistoric Indo-European root wei- 'life force' (^) [ 32 ]