https://medium.com/ill-ixi-lli/kill-the-messenger-55afdc10b309#.wqb7j3mhu

“Occasionally then, this broiling atrocity we are calling civilization produces a signal from within that should act as both a ‘tracer’ and a ‘wake up call’. The signal usually comes in a form we find offensive, for good reason: we are determined to ignore its actual sources, functions and implications. Our habit and culture incline us to ‘magnify and reproduce’ the crime and all of its affects in a grand-mal seizure of human intelligence that we call Prosecution. We isolate the ‘perpetrator’ from their history, culture, experience and circumstances… from our own activity and influence and its actual effects upon them, and ‘bring them up on charges’. Meanwhile, we intentionally ignore the signal, its origins, its origins, imperatives, implications, and all possibility of intelligently discovering, admitting and resolving them.

Why? We pack all of that into the messenger, who becomes the scapegoat, the ‘perpetrator’ — then kill or imprison it. This action ‘links us in crime’ and expands all modes and domains of damage. It resolves absolutely nothing. It has nothing to do with Justice, or humanity, civilization or intelligence. No ledger gets balanced, all ledgers just start bleeding: cash, lives, futures, histories and potentials for actual progress.”