Going by bus is such an adventure. Sometimes you see interesting people, sometimes you just want to forget that you saw someone. After some threatening incidents my peaceful walks to the store were replaced by bus rides.
Today, I heard a student (I live near a university) discussing someone. He said, "It's the end of her life! It's such an interesting story. She's a whore. Let her live out her final days."
A chilling thought crossed my mind - could he be talking about me? I hadn't told anyone there about the incident in America, no one had talked to me about it, and I only post about it on X, which is blocked in Russia, and I have only one post on Facebook. It shouldn't be easy to find my page if you don't know my name, especially after Google dramatically reduced my digital footprint about two years ago and I became nearly invisible.
Barely out of his teens, fresh from university lectures, and already he's playing master over someone's fate - passing judgment with the casual cruelty of a slave owner deciding which lives matter.
A university student, supposed to get education and expand his mind, instead revealed such an ability to dehumanize others. This behavior shows the disconnect between modern education and empathy.
"Let her go to Russia to live out her final days" - these words were spoken about me in America. It wasn't the first time I'd heard such a death verdict pronounced with casual indifference. Over the years, I'd seen this same pattern used against other victims. It's recognizable.
The perpetrators always follow their playbook of dehumanization. They brand their victims as alcoholics, prostitutes, addicts - whatever label will stick.
It's a calculated strategy: destroy the person's humanity in others' eyes before destroying their life.
Make the victim so "worthless" that their fate becomes merely a footnote, not a tragedy. First they kill your name, then they kill you.
Anyone can become a victim. One day you can wake up without realizing that someone has already written the ending to your story.
Sometimes predators target lonely people, but sometimes people become victims of their own family. There are many who wish to subjugate others. They never strike openly, they orchestrate slow-motion catastrophes.
The only common thread in all these cases is the "normalization" and acceptance of the crimes from society.
People unburdened by intelligence never question how a teacher, manager, or engineer suddenly lost everything and "decided" to hit rock bottom.
The comfortable fiction of "personal failure" is easier to swallow than the truth of calculated destruction.
This acceptance becomes ammunition. Each raised eyebrow, each withdrawn invitation, each "concerned" glance builds the case against the victim.
The target's isolation becomes "antisocial behavior", the targets attempts to protect themselves, are labeled "paranoid'', their desperate attempts to expose the truth become "mental instability".
The harder they fight to save their lives, the more it is seen as evidence of mental instability.
It's like quicksand in personal life - the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
But examining these cases through the lens of precedent law reveals a pattern. Each "successful" destruction of an individual's life doesn't just end of a victim’s life - it creates a template, a tested methodology that enters unofficial practice.
What started as isolated incidents becomes an established procedure.
And modern education assist to it, because knowledge without compassion only creates more sophisticated forms of cruelty.
"First published by me on X Nov 25, 2024
Republished on my blog January 21, 2025 with changes"