I suppose we all have experienced the vindictiveness of some thwarted schemer.
The workplace is infested with those who believe that the fast track
includes sabotaging those who decline an opportunity to be a stepping stone.
And of course, the woman who sets her ambition on domesticating their Catch.
When it comes to complete abdication of decency, saying No to an enflamed woman
can famously trigger all sorts of dangerous nastiness.
The law is strict about murder, but virtually useless against character assassins.
But, why does such behaviour exist ?
Why do people go to absurd lengths to revenge a perceived slight ?
a challenge to their phantasy of domination over all they behold . . .
Hatred is interesting stuff.
Not so much in an enjoyable way,
but as a due diligence in the Art of Survival. [chuckle]
The thing that stood out first, the conspicuous Function,
is that hatred Justifies obnoxious behaviour.
Hating someone is like printing yourself a license
to suspend the realities of empathy,
to silence the moral faculty.
So there is a facilitation of violence, of cruelty
by this commonplace emotion.
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For me, who am notoriously eccentric,
the only thing Worth hating is Stupidity.
Because Stupidity is the Root of All Evil.
Truly, without stupidity, society would be much more palatable. [grin]
By my reckoning, the Persistence of existential ugliNess, of vulgar Pettiness,
is due to a deliberate ignorance of ramifications.
Which, in itself, is a meaningful definition of Stupidity.
So hatred and stupidity travel together.
As an elder, a person of diverse experience,
I am morally obliged to stand against the destructiveness of stupidity.
In so doing, I have observed that Hatred is the great facilitator of injury to society.
Yes, deception is the dark mother to Cynicism,
but Deception is unleashed by Hatred.
Hatred does not need to be Justified :
in motivating cruelty, hatred is entirely sufficient unto itself.
A pure excuse of contemptuous eMotion.
So, when I see hatred, it signals that the perpetraitor
has abandoned the values of Decency, and thus has freed up
the range of countermeasures that can be considered.
I have often advocated a return to the Old Law,
to the social hygiene enforced by the value “Death for the First Lie”.
Because the Lie is a primary Tool, a hallmark of the Enemy,
the traitor of Trust, the creator of Cynicism.
Get rid of liars, of our acceptance of their pivotal anti-social weapon,
and we can relax, knowing that our neighbours are not a secret enemy.
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The catalyst of Deception is hatred.
With the absence of deception comes its corollary . . .
. . . absence of hatred.
Because, with humiliation and death as a Consequence,
every individual has motive to think carefully, to discipline impulses,
to make an effort to maintain truthfulness.
Losing those to whom consequence is meaningless is beneficial.
Yes. A few fools get crunched on seemingly-minor issues,
but their tasty ending fertilises the sobriety of all the tribe.
And, ultimately, mankind is one tribe.
Liars have split off interest groups, for the purpose of self-aggrandisement
{which may be disguised as overt humbleness, or devout zeal}
but success for the Whole Tribe begins with co-operation, rather than war.
In 2015, mankind is at war with itself.
A very destructive process that impoverishes the many
to exalt a few accomplished Liars.
The puritan prohibitions of the USA are a dishonest war on Dissent,
just as the cruelty of Islam {submission} is a savage war on Dissent.
Both of these wars against freeThinkers are based in false religions.
Both of these crusades have become an industry of destruction.
Propaganda and violence are contrived in the Agendas of warfare,
agendas that are somehow devoid of empathy, devoid of respect for an adversary,
contemptuous of truthfulness . . .
The worst kind of war, where honours go not to the brave and accomplished,
but to the architects of intolerance, the manufacturers of orchestrated hatred.
To the profiteers of restricted armaments and black-market prices.
So, hatred is intertwined with destructiveness, both between individuals,
and in the world-wide wars over money and power.
Next time somebody provokes outrage, do not go so far as hatred.
To do so, is to abdicate your humanity.
If kill we must, let it be done out of genuine necessity, rather than heated emotion.
. . . to protect the fabric of goodwill between men.
. . . to assert that Liars are the enemy to all mankind.
. . . to motivate Due Diligence in our speech and our decisions.
The health of our society is of vital importance to the future of mankind,
which is currently recognised {by many} as being on the brink of CatasTrophe.
The corporatizing of government has unMistakeably shown its fruit,
in the increasing inequality of distribution, deliberately blind to individual needs,
fruit shown in the industrial raping of the Oceans and Forests of our host Planet.
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, . . .
as it is the merger of corporate and government power" . . . Benito Mussolini
New visions, new solutions are needed, if we are to survive as a species.
Something that requires participants, innovators, visionaries . . .
entirely distinct from the Passive Conformity urged by propagandists,
. . . no devout waiting for an imaginary Big-Brother to mystically clean up the mess
of our ignored response-abilities and the unChosen destiny of extinction.
This time of global crisis is a potent opportunity for us to seize our days,
to become, each of us, what a worthwhile future needs,
to seize today’s opportunity to live as humans of knowledge and individual honour.