As a survivor of ritual abuse, I often feel that people view the torture I underwent as a child as something that happened to me. But, in fact, it happened to the whole world, just in different ways. One reason I was selected for repeated rapes and beatings is that I was harder to break than some of the kids around me. It took a lot to put me to sleep. Of course, there were kids even stronger than me. But, as I wrote about earlier this week, those were the children that the abusers literally murdered.
A friend shared an animated short film with me today called 'In Shadows'. I feel that the film explains some of the global socioeconomic context in which I was abused, and how this abuse has now reached a critical point.
The film communicates brilliantly our global predicament and depicts the hidden side of what passes for 'civilization' here on planet Earth in the early 21st Century.
Here it is: