Word: excrementalism
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...struggle to retain their humanity in an atmosphere in which hygiene is not an option, food is scarce and raw, and instinct threatens to rule their passions and actions. A militant group of inmates soon takes command of the wards, raping the women and killing anyone who disobeys them. Excrement, garbage, blood and corpses slowly fill the hospital as, with horror, the inmates feel themselves sinking further and further away from humanity, helplessly approaching the degradation and raw violence of rabid animals. "Perhaps humanity will cease to live without eyes," an inmate claims, "but then it will cease...
...your forehead and slowly travel down your face, into your nose, stinging your eyes. Your hands tremble and fumble with the pages. Yet still you remain transfixed. You read without a sense of yourself--aware only of the feel of paper and the putrid smell of filth and excrement clinging to the words. Occasionally the pages, white and luminous, drag you so deep inside their parameters that for brief moments, you literally imagine you are one of the victims, one of the inhuman, one of the blind. A cold fear clings to each word. You look up startled from...
After the entire world goes blind, the inmates escape from the hospital. They travel homeless throughout a desolate, rotting city clothed only in excrement-covered threads, their hearts heavy with the knowledge that humanity has no hope, no future. The government falls apart shortly after the outbreak, and hopes of future organization are not positive. "If there is [a government], it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness...
...ensuing struggle is nasty and getting nastier. Cars have been stoned. Religious centers have been fire bombed. Excrement has been thrown. People on both sides have been assaulted on the street. A Prime Minister has been murdered. Says Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan: "We are really near the edge [of] where people can tolerate each other...
Secular women are riled by Orthodoxy's chauvinism. Last June in Jerusalem rioting haredim pelted men and women with excrement for praying at the Western Wall in a mixed group. In 1996 haredi "modesty patrols" began attacking women on Jerusalem's streets for exposing their arms or legs. Secular women were offended last year when Rabbi Yosef pronounced that men should not walk between two women, just as they should not walk between two donkeys, lest they take on the attributes of these lesser beasts...