Revenge

It is rather an easy and simple thing to do - to exct revenge. In fact, it seems t be a primal human response to any form of threat the organism's well-being. But on a human scale, our notions of revenge are embellished by cultural as well as psychological conditionings. With accoutrements of language, culture and personal identity, we seem to have empowered it's articulatin in society; we write treatises on them, our psychologists investigate them, even our pop magazines explore them as popular topic sellers for our consumerist readers.

Although rooted in the most primitive layers of our consciousness, perhaps, a survival instinct gone mad, revenge is made glamourous by literature, by Hollywood and by the cultural purveyors of the media.

We seem to be accepting of revenge, not just a biological response mechanism but also as an extension of our identity as individuals who have been wronged.