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          "alt": "Where individuals are concerned, a positive negation\nof common sense is evident. While the settler or the\npoliceman has the right the livelong day to strike the\nnative, to insult him and to make him crawl to them,\nyou will see the native reaching for his knife at the\nslightest hostile or aggressive glance cast on him by an\nother native; for the last resort of the native is to defend\nhis personality vis-a-vis his brother. Tribal feuds only\nserve to perpetuate old grudges buried deep in the memory.\nBy throwing himself with all his force into the vendetta,\nthe native tries to persuade himself that colonialism does\nnot exist, that everything is going on as before, that his\ntory continues. Here on the level of communal organiza\ntions we clearly discern the well-known behavior patterns\nof avoidance. It is as if plunging into a fraternal blood\nbath allowed them to ignore the obstacle, and to put off\ntill later the choice, nevertheless inevitable, which opens\nup the question of armed resistance to colonialism. Thus\ncollective autodestruction in a very concrete form is one\nof the ways in which the native's muscular tension is set\nfree. All these patterns of conduct are those of the death\nreflex when faced with danger, a suicidal behavior which\nproves to the settler (whose existence and domination is\nby them all the more justified) that these men are not\nreasonable human beings. In the same way the native\nmanages to by-pass the settler. A belief in fatality removes\nall blame from the oppressor",
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          "alt": "Yes, terrified; at this fresh stage, colonial aggression\nturns inward in a current of terror among the natives. By\nthis I do not only mean the fear that they experience\nwhen faced with our inexhaustible means of repression\nbut also that which their own fury produces in them. They\nare cornered between our guns pointed at them and those\nterrifying compulsions, those desires for murder which\nspring from the depth of their spirits and which they do\nnot always recognize; for at first it is not their violence,\nit is ours, which turns back on itself and rends them; and\nthe first action of these oppressed creatures is to bury\ndeep down that hidden anger which their and our morali\nties condemn and which is however only the last refuge\nof their humanity. Read Fanon: you will learn how, in the\nperiod of their helplessness, their mad impulse to murder\nis the expression of the natives' collective unconscious.\nIf this suppressed fury fails to find an outlet, it turns in\na vacuum and devastates the oppressed creatures them\nselves. In order to free themselves they even massacre each\nother. The different tribes fight between themselves since\nthey cannot face the real enemy—and you can count on\ncolonial policy to keep up their rivalries; the man who\nraises his knife against his brother thinks that he has\ndestroyed once and for all the detested image of their\ncommon degradation, even though these expiatory victims\ndon't quench their thirst for blood. They can only stop\nPreface / 19\nthemselves from marching against the machine-guns by\ndoing our work for us; of their own accord they will speed\nup the dehumanization that they reject",
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  "text": "\"All these patterns of conduct are those of the death\nreflex when faced with danger, a suicidal behavior which\nproves to the settler (whose existence and domination is\nby them all the more justified) that these men are not\nreasonable human beings.\""
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