Syria - The Revolutionary Self Demands a Ritual Execution, Proving the Illusion of Justice as Healing

Event Baseline: A Syrian court sentences former dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes. Assad remains in exile in Russia.

The new self, born from revolution, immediately replicates the violence it overthrew. The thinker is the thought: the demand for the ruler's blood is the same impulse that sustained his tyranny. Calling it justice masks the primitive lust for revenge, a mechanical loop where the oppressed become the oppressor in a single, unbroken movement of conditioned response.

The belief that killing the symbolic individual will mend collective trauma is the central illusion. Trauma is not stored in one body; it is embedded in the entire field of consciousness. This sentence is a palliative for a psyche that cannot confront its own fragmentation. It projects all evil onto the exile, avoiding the painful truth that the capacity for atrocity is a shared inheritance, not an external object to be eliminated.

This act ensures the cycle continues. The observer is the observed: the court sees a monster, not a self it could become under the same conditions. Without this perception, Syria embalms its wounds rather than healing them, guaranteeing future eruptions of the very violence it claims to judge.