The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
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I Want to Hit Someone Even Outside My Job
French police officer Benon beat his children and wife after they criticized him for hitting them too much. The policeman refuses to resign from his job which means that he simply is going to have to go on torturing Algerians indefinitely. There's no real solution as long as he's not willing to give up his occupation in the end this policeman simply asks for none to teach him how to more or less turn off his conscience when he's on the job so that he can continue to ruthlessly torture Algerians without any negative psychic damage being done to him or for those around him. In its endless need to dehumanize and justify violence colonialism guts any bonds of solidarity and kinship that might have once
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