From history to modern, mankind had existed in a culture of violence. We live in a system, domestically and internationally that employs violence as a solution to violence. Beyond this violence, is the violence in our hearts. Hatred, hostility, despair and indifference are the cause of growing culture of violence. Utilization of violence focuses on inflicting pain. However, the significance of this pain is that it resides in the body, mind and soul. Because pain challenges consciousness and numbs the possibility to think, to listen, to touch, to see, in short, it simply desensitize our internal organic sen

Violence is a mode of human action that leaves other human systems in devastation. A non-visible violence is torture, that separates the victims ( the self ) from the community ( the world ). In this case, we define ‘ torture ‘ as the “ intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physically or mentally, upon a person in the custody or under the control of accused “ The pain of violence is an invasion of individual’s body, mind and soul, where experience of silent pain isolates the self from the world. The prolonged pain robes their ego and allows them to mimic death.

Torture attempts to annihilate the privacy and secrecy of the victims’ mind by invading the openings and surfaces of the body. Under torture, the subject ( victim ) is forced into a position of purely object that ultimately loses his/her sense of interiority and intimacy. The boundaries between realms of experience that are normally separated are being blurred. Thoughts and dreams attack the mind and invade the body. The separation of inside and outside, past and present, me and you, there and here, are lost. Such experience of silent impact of violence represents the cultural boundary of self and its relation to the world collapsed. “ On the edge of non-existence and hallucination, of a reality that, if I acknowledge it, annihilates me. There, abject and abjection are my safeguards. The primer of culture “ (Kristera ). Our culture deals with morality so much in the history, that it explains what we lived. Here, culture must ask where is the boundary ? Unfortunately, no one knows ! Cultural form are the external world that we live in, it describes and identifies us. If a person is lost in the world, thru experiencing abjection, pain derives from threat, the self-expressed that experiencing pain is internal. That’s why committing suicide becomes a cultural form in order to defend the loss self. Therefore, if violence enters the consciousness and action and quickly consequences in reconfiguring social thoughts, social order and culture into a destructive phenomenon, then, violence demonstrates a cultural system that is capable of overshadowing and destroying communication, process of thinking and reasoning and action in the world. Therefore, violence disrupts the social and cultural system in our society.

The horror of war, the civilian casualty, tormenting and damaging bodies, causing mass death are the purpose of warfare, “ the immediate object here is neither to conquer the enemy country, nor to destroy it, but simply to cause general damage…… to increase enemy suffering “ ( Scarry 1985: 65 ). The legacy of war is the trauma and losses of surviving soldiers, veterans and civilians. For the sake of war, political strategies shape the body, so sacrificing is necessary. Men are to die !! Violence becomes a logic conduct and death is the irreversible impact on body, producing persons to objects ( body to corpse ), Here, pain is evidently a cultural object and its source – violence, represents a historical condition that is inseparable from cultural representation; an inherent systemic violence of cultural sign system. Ironically, in warfare’s, the soldiers and veteran sacrificed, are recognized as patriots and those that survived are recognized as heroes. Eg, Vietnam

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