The austrian incident is something far beyond my comprehension. There are extensive media coverage on the issue and I have read almost everything, every single word written in the british news paper "guardian" about this cruellest incident I have ever come across in my life. Analysts and experts are still in the process of soul searching to understand the whats and whys of the episode. As type this, my head is burning like a furnace and my hands are ice cold. I am in a state of utter confusion and emotional distress.
The story for sure challenges the nazi concencntration camps Austria witnessed before in the degree of horror it reflects. Joseph Fritzl - 73 years old now, a father of seven children kpet captive of his daughter for 24 years in a cellar, repeatedly raped her and fathered (simultaneously grandfathered!) her seven children, without being noticed by anybody! Still unfathomable it to me how could a human being do this.
Life is bizzare to a degree much higher than what I understood so far. Currently, as I could cognize it, here is a war of ideas in my mind about morality, sex, mind and life. I find it very difficult to conclude something. As a matter of fact, this incident can be cited as the pinnacle of tragedy in human history itself. I am not able to see the letters on the keyboard as well as the computer screen, because just for a moment I thought about the life of those children of Elizabath Fritzl. Undoubtedly, the life of thos children in cellar hammer more hardly on my mind than the father's rape of his daughter.
What might have gone wrong fundamentally? Is it man's insatiable quest for sex? I guess no. If this was the reason, Joseph Fritzl had more easy options than going for this hideously ugly activity. Also, experiencing sex without morality attached to it is no more important than urination or shitting (Forgive me prostitutes, I know it is not that way for you)! I guess the explanation could point to a complex interply between mind and moral, perceptions and conceptions, reality and illusions. What I could conceive from the media reports is that, Joseph Fritzl had two major compartments in his mind -- the one at the top enabled him to live the normal family life externally and the other on bottom (his mind's cellar compartmnet!) enabled him to live his beast life in cellar!
Most of what I will say about this incident is already said by Nicci Gerrard in her much appreciated article "A monster from the pages fo Grimm tale".
Link to the article:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/04/austria.internationalcrime
