TRIVIALIZATION VS. EMPATHY

Trivialization ...........To make something seem ordinary or commonplace

Empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner..... also the capacity for this


Some crimes throughout history whoch many people feel have been trivialized:

The Holocaust.

Slavery,racism,bigotry

Rape

You cannot insure yourself against any of the above crimes but many non-empathetic cynics feel that the victims, in some manner (and the cynics are never completely specific about this),invited this on themselves or did not take steps to avoid being so vulnerable to their perpetrators. e.g. women wore provacative clothing, jews antagonized others by being such succesful merchants and blacks meekly accepted their fate.

In contrast empathetically inclined people will feel the pain of these victims,will vicariously feel the pain,shock and outrage of the victims. They will communicate to the victims that although they cannot take the pain,shock and outrage away, they nonetheless share it.

No one can really understand the feelings of being violated,insulted,shamed or brutalized unless they actaully experience certain crimes.

After experiencing a moving scam for three weeks from today I think that this is a crime which invites trivialization rather than empathy.Of course, I am still sane and full realize that the brutalization I have experienced, cannot be put in the same category as Holocaust,Bigotry,Rape etc, but at age 78 it a violation of my psyche.

I also realize that many people feel empathy for me but are unable to express it verbally or vocally. Silent empathy is a form of trivialization in itself. If you know someone who has been the Victim of a moving scam you need expresss your outrage and shock vocally to them.

I went to my first appointment this morning with my new Doctor and he was unable to express his shock but I could see it in his mannerisms.His Nurse's eyes teared up but she was speechless. Her tears helped me more than the Doctor did.

Many of the people closest to me have been unable to express themselves in a helpful manner. Many have identified with the perpetrator or rationilized that the truck probably broke down or maybe the fires in SC caused them to avoid the state.

I sent an e mail to the Attorney General of Florida, Wm. McCollum today outlining the crime.

Will resume posting complaints about Mega Moving & Storage tomorrow as I cull them from all over the Internet. This is the company which has my goods in storage and is charging me storage.

A County social worker is helping me locate some basic necessities. I told her about the storage fiasco. She laughed and I laughed with her after she said "you mean they are charging you to store goods they stole from you??"