Switzerland / Crans-Montana - The Intimate Self Enacts Violence Behind Closed Doors, Proving the Illusion of a Separate Private Life

Event Baseline: The owner of a Swiss bar where a New Year's fire killed 41 people has been placed in pre-trial detention for alleged domestic violence against his wife. The same individual is already under criminal investigation for the deadly blaze.

The self that is capable of public negligence is capable of private violence. The separation is an illusion. The mind that fails to see the other in a burning building is the same mind that fails to see the other in a marriage. Violence is not an event; it is a state of consciousness. The bar owner does not have two selves—one for the public, one for the home. He has one self, broken into fragments, each fragment unaware of the other. This fragmentation breeds denial, cruelty, and chaos. Society calls it a personal problem. It is not. It is the operating system error of the entire species.