Do you think of yourself as alienated?
What do people feel who only feel alive when they are violent? How is it to be understood that people in particular are pathologically obedient to others even though they have been deeply traumatised or hurt by them?
Perpetrators and victims maintain the most dangerous symbiosis of searching for each other throughout their lives.
Left-wing and right-wing extremism, violence in its most hidden forms and open terror against others and oneself: these are the end points of the spiral of destruction that seems to turn naturally. Can it not be stopped?
What is to be done? Arno Gruen pleads for a culture of inner autonomy that does not present itself as strength or pretend to be superior. Autonomy is conformity with one's own feelings and needs.
Those who are so free do not need poses, do not play roles and do not stage themselves in public. The defence against terror, the waging of wars is more expensive than any investment in life. This is the only way to save democratic societies. 
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