{"id":94952,"date":"2017-07-10T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=94952"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T12:31:43","slug":"beware-the-cides-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/beware-the-cides-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the \u201cCides\u201d of July"},"content":{"rendered":"

4 Jul 2017 – <\/em>Shakespeare\u2019s oft quoted lines from Julius Caesar are well known. They are used often in conversations to remind us of the perils lurking among auspicious and inauspicious dates and places: \u201cBeware the Ides of March.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The lines are notable for the 15th<\/sup> day of Caesar\u2019s death at the hands of those he trusted, even as he alienated their friendship. And who can forget the immortal lines: \u201cEt tu, Brutus!\u201d <\/em>These the final mournful gasp of knowing in one\u2019s final moments, a friend\u2019s betrayal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIdes\u201d refers to the fifteenth day of March, May, July, or October. The \u201cFifteenth\u201d day was considered a day to pay off all financial debts owed. \u00a0Perhaps, however, it was also a day for personal debts of gratitude and appreciation to be repaid, lest we forget obligations to those who cared for us.\u00a0 The \u201cThirteenth\u201d day was used for similar purposes for the other months. \u201cIdes\u201d is much more complex. For my purposes, however, it is a poignant departure place for writing about \u201cCides<\/em>,\u201d the \u201cAct of Killing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCides<\/em>\u201d (Root: \u201cCidium\u201d<\/em> refers to the act of killing), is a term joined with many nouns to describe the intentional, deliberate, extermination by killing, murder, and slaying. The tragedy is so many things are subject to killing. \u201cAye, that the rub!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I began to think of the many \u201cCides\u201d following various words; in the process, I became aware of how many terms there are preceding \u201cCide,\u201d and what this means for us as we use the terms each day. Too, often perhaps, we use the terms without thought or their implication.<\/p>\n

I decided to create a graphic display to call attention to the collection of terms, rather than writing a long prose article. It is coincidental, perhaps, I prepared this article on July 4, 2017, Independence Day, the USA celebration of its founding. Coincidence! How many have died for independence?\u00a0 How many have died because of the USA\u2019s existence?<\/p>\n

Chart 1 displays some terms associated with \u201cCides.\u201d It is, in some ways, a lexicon of killing. \u201cKilling, murder, death,\u201d they have become commonplace across the world. \u00a0Have we become habituated to killing?<\/p>\n

Chart 1: <\/strong>A LEXICON OF \u201cCIDES\u201d
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Is there a method in this piece? \u201cYes!\u201d\u00a0 The method is combining iconic literature, words and meanings (i.e., theoretical l lexicography), socio-political commentary, and graphic display.\u00a0 Is there a purpose in this piece? \u201cYes!\u201d The purpose is to share an awareness of killing, and its omnipresence in our lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cKilling, murder, slaying\u201d is committed by individuals, couples, groups, societies, nations, groups of nations (allies). It is an act done for a thousand reasons, often under the aegis of \u201cjustified.\u201d The criminality of the act, the illegality of the act, and the immorality of the act, is too often subject to controversy and debate. \u00a0In the end, something has died.<\/p>\n

In a recent paper entitled \u201cTotal War: Weaponizing and Exporting USA Popular Culture<\/a>\u201d<\/em> Transcend Media Service<\/em> 27 March 2017, I pointed out how many different ways there are to kill, many of the ways subtle and insidious. But the consequence and the motives are the same (e.g., wealth, power, position, hatred, envy, control).<\/p>\n

A 50-year lifetime friend and colleague at the University of Hawaii, Professor Glenn Paige (1929-2017), devoted much of his life to promoting \u201cnon-killing.\u201d In his books and talks, Professor Paige illuminated the consequences of killing, and the potential of embracing a \u2018non-killing\u201d philosophy and ideology. We spoke often and long. Here\u2019s to you, Glenn! Here is to halting \u201ckilling, murder, slaying\u201d everywhere.<\/p>\n

Let us make July 4, more than a celebration of independence, let us also make it a day we pledge to stop killing in all its obvious and nuanced forms.<\/p>\n

May our nation, on this important day, celebrate the \u201cideals\u201d of our creation, and vow to halt the \u201cviolence, killing, and murder\u201d now prevailing. Regardless of source, motive, or rationale, let us \u201cBeware the \u201cCides\u201d <\/em>of July\/. \u201c Let us do so for all days, months, years.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D., a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a><\/em>, is a past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Emeritus Professor of psychology at the University of Hawaii\u2019s Manoa Campus in Honolulu, Hawaii, and past director of the World Health Organization Psychiatric Research Center in Honolulu. \u00a0He is known internationally as a pioneer figure in the study of culture and psychopathology who challenged the ethnocentrism and racial biases of many assumptions, theories, and practices in psychology and psychiatry. In more recent years, he has been writing and lecturing on peace and social justice. He has published 21 books and more than 300 articles, tech reports, and popular commentaries. He can be reached at marsella@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

First published on <\/em>Engaging Peace<\/a> July 4, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4 Jul 2017 – Shakespeare\u2019s oft quoted lines from Julius Caesar are well known. They are used often in conversations to remind us of the perils lurking among auspicious and inauspicious dates and places: \u201cBeware the Ides of March.\u201d The lines are notable for the 15th day of Caesar\u2019s death at the hands of those he trusted, even as he alienated their friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235828,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94952\/revisions\/235828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}