ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a speculative account of the future of humanity based on a discernible pattern of violence and exploitation of the other that characterises human motivation and deed. The fantasy that men are inherently gentle creatures who are born good, free of dispositional sin, and untainted by primitive intent can no longer be sustained by critical reason. It is an empirical fact that, by all historiographical accounts of cultural anthropology, human civilisation has been forged on human conflict, attachment deficits in child-rearing practices, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse, traumatisation, dehumanisation, and war. Prejudice is a neutral psychological predisposition that informs the ontology of human subjectivity. Prejudice is an elementary aspect of conscious and unconscious life that gives rise to the self, the nature of personal identification, individual and collective identity, culture, and shared value practices. Prejudice as valuation is, therefore, responsible for shared ideals as well as the deviations of abnormality and perversion.
