Hate, the Basic Human Feeling:

Hate is an intriguing feeling because it could emerge and take hold of the subject’s mind without obvious causes; and then drives that subject to discover or find out reasons for its existence. It is almost a state of mind that occurs before the subject makes the effort to justify its presence.  

Love and hate in children show that hate appears earlier than love. This point is naturally a source of much arguing and disagreements. But there is good evidence that hate could occur spontaneously and seems to be less dependent on the existence of external sources to stimulate it. Love on the other hand generates later in the life of the infant, with more defined causes than those we find with hate. I am making that distinction to address later a psychoanalytic point of importance: how does the issue of love\hate emerge in humans to affect their cognition and intellect to the degree that could become dangerous (as it is now) or pathological as in daily and casual paranoiac reactions? To make myself clearer and save you the trouble of waiting for something new or different from the common ideas in that regard I say: love and hate are the origin and basic primary constituents of the individual’s sense of identity. An infant who does not have a sense of being yet (or even a sense existence) acquires his sense of being gradually and very slowly through recognizing (gaining consciousness) of those two emotions: love and hate. Psychological life begins once those emotions are experienced as conscious states. Hate in infancy does not need an object to first be felt while love needs an object to materialize: hating hunger does not need an object but love of feeding has the breast to love.

We can test this simple idea at the present time by the ease people hate Putin for few words or photos published about him, while loving him, even by his own people is not easy though he has a good reason to expect at least respect. Comparing his invasion of Ukraine and the harm it is doing to the invasion of Vietnam the harm it caused people there makes hating him ‘rather’ difficult.  The memory of the little girl running naked in panic after a Napalm attack that burned her skin and dress compared with compared with what the Russian are doing now in Europe makes us see how hate changes facts to an unreality that leads to distortion of truth. Making a comparison between the USA and Russia in that regard shows that hate is more destructive to mental, cognitive, even ethical issues than any other emotion. This makes me think: if love and hate are separated in an individual and hate finds a target in another person (Putin for instance) what happens to l without its antithesis? This occasion could cause what is called splitting of consciousness. In those occasions (loving and hating for no distinctive reason to justify the existence of either) results in the disappearance of mental and cognitive functions to make sense of the situations in question. This is the point where leaders practice the most unethical manipulation of the crowds which will forgive all and any flaw in the arguments presented to them when they are in a state of consciousness.

Hate: Justified and Unjustified.

It is not always difficult to notice and understand if hate is justified or unjustified in individuals. But in groups and big mases it is difficult to assess the soundness of their hate (sometimes even their love as in sports affiliations). Creating a state of split consciousness is quite easy if there is a silent agreement in the media to do that. I watch is SNBC, BBC, Euro News, and CNN International. It is odd that they all talk about the cruelty and inhumanity of Putin and rarely mention Russia. This is curious because: Putin is doing what he is doing for the security of Russia. He is doing it by Russians, and Russia was always (since 1917) the enemy. But that was when Russia was a communist country and easy to hang on its name all the hate needed. When the USA was waging wars all over the world for the last fifty years the presidents who did that were not mentioned as owning those wars. Why is it now the Putin war? BECAUSE calling it a war of a nation (Russia) requires identifying the reason and the cause for it, but if it is the war of an individual it is considered a criminal act, lunacy, etc., and thus hate could be defined, identified, objectified and criminalized….and utilized. They want the  war in the Ukraine to be an act of hate -of someone not a political act !!. In that case the media does not have the responsibility of telling its people what is its role in that war. For instance the media creates the atmosphere of a silly case of political crime that distracts from any responsibility created by Nato trying to expand the  European Community. Interestingly but sadly the media creates the favorable state of split of consciousness by promoting hate of ONE politician and another hat for his country. All those networks, which I follow as a retired man, need to create something to HATE for the European to stay together, or else they would sin and stop hating and may chose whom to love.          

All those sources keep informing of the cruelty of Putin and his dictatorship and nothing about Russia. It is a constant reminder of the ‘person’ to hate and not about what to hate in that person. Why they are very keen and insisting on keeping hate strong and alive. The very direct answer is fear that if people  lost their hate or got accustomed to it will start look at facts…. Instead! But why is the hate issue related to one subject (Putin) and not Russia as the country? If this is achieved people would definitely be asking questions about the causes that mobilizes a country against another country? This is an important question because no one person could mobilize a whole country in an act of hate against another nation (even prophets had to have causes and God's power behind the to deliver their messages) without presenting them with causes (Hitler presented the Versailles surrender document as a cause for a war).             The issue here is that the USA is no longer the might that could make all stand in attention, and Europe is getting more powerful in the modern meaning of political power and wants to dominate the world as it did all along before the USA glittered in the sky after the second world war. The issue is disconnecting causes from effects so that the chain of fact-reality- truth will get cut and the fact that globalization has replaced the old system of Westerner domination and political truth is not a monopoly of the western races alone. One thing needs to be mentioned here because I know what people in Europe are exposed to in the unethical propaganda that they are bombarded with….. half and distorted truth. Anyone who watches the Putin’s criminal bombarding of Kiev should ask why he bombards those particular apartments that are vacant and there are no human casualties attached to their direct hits by rockets?

Hate seems to have more impact on regular common daily thinking and could distort it easily. Why is that?

My next posing will be addressing this issue because the foundation and the basis of hate is projection: hate is a product of another psychical process.