“There is an old story about a worker suspected of stealing: every evening, as he leaves the factory, the wheelbarrow he rolls in front of him is carefully inspected. The guards can find nothing. It is always empty. Finally, the penny drops: what the worker is stealing are the wheelbarrows themselves…” According to the passage, we do not usually consider what is obviously in front of us, just like the wheelbarrow precisely stolen without anybody notice . In the same way, if we talk about violence, we might usually come up with those obvious severe acts such as assault, murder, and war without paying attention to that violence hidden as its root. However, violence itself seems to be more complicated and paradox than that when some acts are being tried to indicate as violence acts. There are many people who are trying to explain and categorize what to be violence acts is included. Two of those are Mark Twain and Slavoj Zizek who explained violence act almost in similar way –the one is the obvious cruel act but the one is invisible in …show more content…
The subjective violence that is executed by the obvious identified agent such as crime, murder and war, or even, international conflict. The subjective violence usually occurred in a period of time. To illustrate, a war starts and then ends in maybe a month, a year or a decade after. And we know exactly who the criminal is or, at lease, we know there is some identified actor as a criminal. The subjective violence is usually in our common sense of violence that first come up in our mind and often appears on the most spaces of newspapers or TV news. This is because, as Zizek explained, the subjective violence is seen as an agent of apparently bothering something presumed as ‘normal’ or peaceful things. This ‘normal’ settles down with the other kind of violence which is the systemic violence (which is going to be discussed