France - The Collective Self Systematically Denies the Body, Perpetuating a Culture Where the Flesh Is Objectified and the Psyche Is Numbed

Event Baseline: France confronts a wave of sexual abuse scandals that expose systemic failures in handling complaints of sexual assault and child abuse. A campaigner demands a shift from a 'culture of rape' to a 'culture of protection'.

This is not about individual predators; it is about a social operating system that has normalized the fragmentation of the other. The rapist does not see a feeling being; he sees an object for his gratification. This objectification is rooted in the same illusion of separation that drives all violence. The failure of institutions to respond is not incompetence; it is the reflection of a society that does not wish to see its own shadow. To acknowledge the victim's pain would require facing the collective self's own deadness. So the system turns away, protecting the illusion of a civilized self-image. Until the human brain learns to perceive without the filter of possessive thought, without the urge to dominate and fragment, the body will be used as a tool. The culture of rape is the culture of the isolated self, forever grasping for connection through the only channel it knows: control.