Oppression has many faces and comes in different scales.
Oppression of women at home, oppression of employees by a tyrant leader, and oppression of a nation by a tyrant ruler are examples of oppression we still face today.
Blindness of the tyrant father or leader leads them to consider short-term effects only. They see their power controlling others and temporary submission as signs of victory.
Long-term effects are different. Explosion of the oppressed gets closer and closer.
Oppression is like a faulty pressure cooker soon the buildup of internal pressure leads to an explosion.
Designers of pressure cookers use release valves to avoid excessive buildup of pressure inside the cooker. They know that if a pressure cooker explodes they shall be subject to trial. Explosion comes without advance notice. Imagine what happens when a pressure cooker explodes spraying randomly hot food in all directions.
Same with oppressed nations they may explode suddenly and then spray their hot lava of anger sporadically burning people and damaging property.
Those nations become uncontrollable. No tyrant can do anything about a bursting nation.
One of the main causes of pressure cookers to explode is overheating. Heat leads to the buildup of pressure inside the cooker exceeding its safety limit. This results in hot steam and food burning whatever they reach.
Oppression does the same. It leads to the rapid heating of the oppressed people beyond their capacity to bear the building pressure inside. This results in violence and acts like rioting and burning whatever people can burn. Chaos spreads like fire.
Worse if the buildup of pressure is not distributed evenly. Hot spots result and these spots become excessively dangerous when the explosion happens. Oppression may do the same with people feeling the oppression at different levels. Hot spots result and these become a source of violent explosions.
Sometimes the faulty pressure cooker sends a steam-releasing sound. If this happens, the cooker is faulty, and repairing the faulty part becomes necessary.
The tyrants may listen to the unusual complaining sounds but their pride makes them deaf to hear them and do the necessary “repairing”. An explosion happens and burns them.
This becomes dangerously threatening if the explosion leads to the formation of a pressure wave following the initial explosion. Pressure waves travel very fast and reach remote areas burning them. The damage magnifies.
A simple metaphor can teach us lessons on how to respect people and their right to live in freedom.
As I have expressed myself several times, you are a “magician” of metaphors.
The oppressors maintain their domination with “coercion” and persuasion and do everything they can to prevent the oppressed from reaching forms of autonomous and separate representation.
No oppression can long repress a people’s desire for freedom, people’s desire for freedom.
But it is not easy to become aware of this collectively and a real alliance is necessary, for which all the parties to the pact must have equal dignity. When they explode, the crowds burst in and disturb the natural, hierarchical order of the world and of things, an order that had always excluded them.
I am humbled Aldo by your heartfelt appreciation.
This appreciation in the context of your valuable comment in which you wrote “When they explode, the crowds burst in and disturb the natural, hierarchical order of the world and of things, an order that had always excluded them”.
I agree with you. Bursting is uncontrollable and is very energetic.
The disruption may cause can go beyond what the best analysts could predict.