The Problem of The Matti Juhani Saari’s Of The World & How To Solve It!

By Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo, Scientific & Spiritual Philosopher.

Before my article I would like to express my most sincere condolences to all those whose lives have been shattered by this sick young person’s senseless acts of extreme violence. Having witnessed extreme violence as a young man in a war-torn region of the world, I know all too well how it feels to see life turned completely upside down. I have long dedicated much of my efforts to find ways to prevent violence, including direct violence and socio-economic violence, which, as Mahatma Gandhi correctly showed, are linked. Obviously one form of violence never truly justifies another, except when it is truly in self-defense, and one must be careful not to confuse these kind of insanities with what Partisans and fighting Jews did in response to the monstrosity of Nazism and Fascism in World War 2.

And now, my article;

Sometimes I really have to wonder whether The World is paying any real attention to those of us whose relatively critical observations and understanding of the world’s social problems might yield serious, practical solutions. And when a very sick young person, such as Matti Juhani Saari of Finland, manages to destroy so many more lives than just the ones he actually murdered point-blank, my sense of indignation and frustration compel me to write yet another one of these types of articles, in the eternal hope that my views and advice shall finally be given the kind of public policy attention they deserve.
On my part, as an independent Free-Thinker, a Spiritual & Scientific Philosopher, this is the very least I can and should do, in the sincere conviction that I am correct about my understanding and my reasoning-out solutions. After all, if prevention of these tragic horrors is possible, as I am sure it is, then it is our sincere obligation as fellow citizens of this precious little planet of ours to leave no stone unturned in our quest for a world free from the excessive fear and irrational hate that generates so many victims and victimizers!

First of all, there is no doubt about the fact that this specific type of extreme violence was until relatively recently unheard of in modern Scandinavian societies, and that something must have changed over the years in Finland, where this is the third such incident since 1989. Then again, we must also keep in mind that Scandinavia was once the prominent cultural source of Viking and Celtic cultures, which were notorious for their excessive violence! So, as we take a deeper look into this matter, we must not over-idealize Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish culture. As any Scandinavian Social Scientist or Anthropologist is likely to confirm; there is and has always been an under-current of excessively violent emotions in their societies, and it is only with the advent of Reformed Christianity and The Humanist Movement of the early 20th Century that educated Scandinavian intellectuals have worked very hard to provide the kind of social circumstances intended to reduce the risks of these troubling undercurrents.

These last two tragedies, the one perpetrated by Pekka-Eric Auvinen in Jokela, which claimed the lives of 9 persons, and this one, which has claimed the lives of 10 persons (not including the life of Saari, himself), were done by sick young men whose contempt for humanity was something they openly declared on such public Internet sites as YouTube! But why?!? What is it about life in Finland today that could be a significant factor in the sick mindset, twisted world-view and demented set of pseudo-ideals that these young men held??

A lot of extreme youth violence today, I would contend, is the result of the kind of growing severe social instability caused by a combination of the severe socio-economic insecurity suffered by their parents, combined with HIV-AIDS fear-mongering which has managed to remove a major stress-releasing venue once popular in modern Scandinavian societies: relatively easy access to pleasurable sexual relationships, especially for the parents of this young men. For in colder climates, where half of the year is lived in relative darkness and people are at risk of severe depression, sexual pleasure, in the context of warm, affectionate, socialization was actually encouraged! And when a young man is senses that his parents are not frustrated and unhappy, he is much less likely to develop anti-social thoughts and behavior. If we stop glamorizing strict monogamy, which tends be nothing more than insecurity-based possesiveness, then young people will not feel obliged to strive for some unrealistic ideal! Now, I am not at all suggesting that monogamy is wrong per se, not that anyone who is able to live in true loving monogamy should abandon what makes them feel comfortable and happy, but I am suggesting that young men and women today are getting very confused, mixed messages and there are no intellectual role models they can look up to and respect and seek to emulate! Fact is that the mass media has abandoned promoting intellectuals, especially those whose message is of unity-in-diversity, tolerance of tolerant others, liberal enjoyment of life's natural pleasures and healthy mutual consentual relations between mature persons! In that sense the mass media are much to blame for discouraging young people from being intellectually inclined!

As for this particular tragic massacre; sexual repression must surely have been a factor. In fact, one could argue that the Viking and Celtic peoples would have been even more violent and violence-ridden were it not for their sexual socialization! And no doubt the forced introduction of the sexually-inhibitive pre-Reformed early ‘Christian’ way of living, which strictly opposed the Pagan, sexually active, way of life, caused a similar increase in extreme violence! Just that we do not have the statistics from those times, and so we assume that these incidents have nothing to do with sexuality. The fact of the matter is simple; in times of socio-economic hardship, combined with excessive fears of dangerous diseases, such as HIV-AIDS, Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis and deadly Hepatitis-C, women tend to be less willing to open up sexually to men, and this kind of regressive social instability pushes people, especially men, to extremes, such that they begin to experience mental disorders, become reactionary and eventually lose their mental sanity and commit acts of excessive violence! But then, what is the real solution to preventing this chain-reaction of dangerous problems? Obviously, it would be wrong to suggest that women in society should endanger their lives by engaging in the kind of sexual activities that were not as risky in previous times. And obviously it would be counter-productive to continue the status quo of sexual repression. So? The answer is actually quite evident: we can find sophisticated, well-devised, and definitely much safer ways to provide the same old-time levels of sexual and social freedom and cohesion. For example, if governments really wanted happier, healthier and thus more humane societies all they would need to do is work with the private sector in creating facilities and venues where relatively Safe-Sex encounters would be possible! New speedy AIDS testing technologies and encouraging the use of quality condoms would go a long way to insuring that such venues would be almost entirely risk-free! But this would also mean re-introducing the culture of poly-amorous tolerance that began to exist in the late 60s to the early 80s, but without all the dangerous, senseless, careless risk-taking! After all, the fact of the matter is quite simple: because of the enormous public health threat that HIV-AIDS and other socially and sexually communicable diseases pose, including the obvious socio-economic threat, governments since the 80s have been literally ‘killing the patient in order to cure the disease’! They have been doing everything possible to discourage young people and elder persons from exactly the kind of behavior, which, if done sensibly, would actually help reduce violence in society!

As usual, a bunch of socially incompetent technocrats took the world from one extreme to another, all in the name of protecting economic interests by curtailing sexual freedom by means of mass media assisted fear-mongering! Any truly wise social architect and manager can see that they failed to consider the possibility of a middle-of-the-road approach, a truly creative and new technologies- and methodologies-based way to at once continue providing people the venues and cultural-acceptability of sexual freedom, while significantly helping to prevent and reduce the truly dangerous and destructive spread of diseases! Ah! But who stood to benefit…to profit…from such stupid, counterproductive and backfiring technocratic approaches and policies towards transmissible diseases?? Well, the answer is quite simple and obvious: both Reactionary Anti-Social Right-wing Elitists and Traditional Conservative Religionists! For these types of extremists HIV-AIDS was a ‘heaven send’ and one could even argue that there might be some measure of truth to those conspiracy theories that claim HIV-AIDS was deliberately created and/or allowed to take on epidemic proportions and become a serious public health concern! Mind you, the Reagan Administration deliberately ignored calls, even from within the Gay Homosexual community, to impose humane forms of Quarantine on individuals with AIDS, when HIV and Un-Safe Sexual Practices were not yet identified as the culprits! And all pseudo-Republican Administrations have worked with other entities to prevent the popularization of Safe-Sex methodology and practice! Why? Because sexually liberated and free societies are not excessive, junk-food, junk-product-addicted consumerist societies that ultimately only serve the interests of Reactionary Elitist Extreme Capitalists! Moderate Progressive Liberal Capitalists, including Social Democrats like myself, have been the ultimate targets of these Extreme Regressive Reactionary pseudo-Conservative Capitalists. Sure, those of us on the right side of History, those of us who truly value and respect Individual Human Rights, Freedoms and Liberties, including (obviously) natural Family Rights, will not lie about the reality of things by telling you that a Scientific, Pro-Social Responsibly Progressive Liberal way of Sexually Free Society is totally without dangers and risks! I would quesstimate that the difference between the Reactionary way and ours is that theirs ultimately causes hundreds of millions of deaths, at least, while ours only causes tens of millions at most! But the Reactionary way also leads to a significant rise in Global Security Threats and a very dangerous increase in violent conflicts! Whereas our Responsibly Progressive Liberal way actually diminishes the overall Global Security Threat and leads to a significant reduction in wars, crime and corruption! In a world of physical imperfection there is no perfect solution to anything, let alone to the ages old problem of “To Do It, or Not To Do It!”. I say, let the Happy Days and Sexual Freedom back again, but this time let’s do things sensibly, safely and soundly!

Otherwise, I fear, these sort of horrifying mass murders will become more and more common and within no time we’ll be stuck in a bottomless pit of violence and horror spiraling out of control, wondering why we didn’t heed the wise advice of Responsibly Progressive Liberal Social Democrats, such as myself!

As for better gun control programs; within reason I support that, but we must remember that where there is a strong will there is also a way! And reducing access to guns alone will not insure our safety, security and sanity!

Jean-Pierre Ady Fenyo is not only a Self-Educated (Auto-Didact) Independent Philosopher, but he became famous in New York City in the late 80s as The Original New York City Free Advice Man. He is the author of two books, including “The Most Important Thought”, his first philosophical work. Mr. Fenyo currently resides in London, England, and is busy with several projects, including Sci-Fi writing and producing Avant-Garde movies, television programs and writing an advice column.