Voting For Sociopaths

If you vote for a sociopath to serve in public office, you may be acting from your own sociopathic tendencies.   Americans have succumbed to a sociopathic culture that is sad and shocking.  It isn’t wealth or poverty that counts in the USA.  It’s numbness to the suffering of others.    It is disturbing that numbness has spread itself wide, that apathy has replaced interest in public discourse.  The awful fact is that people are dead inside.  How do I know this?  I know it from personal experience. I was also dead inside.  Now, I have a bit of life within myself. I continue to fight this social and spiritual desolation.  I am less dead than in the past.  I use every tool I can grasp: therapy, meetings with a group, reading about psychology, learning about Consciousness itself. 

Growing up in a typically dysfunctional family has left me reeling with emotional pain and often engaged in struggles with addiction and other debilitating conditions.  I didn’t want this!  I wanted to live free and happy but that is neither possible nor even desirable.  I have learned patience and the ability to frame my narratives of pain in terms that show their creative importance.

As far as I know, I was not “sent here” by anyone other then another faculty of my very core SELF.  We need to understand that possession of a Self is a very high privilege, a vital connection between what is human and what is not of this world but of some inner possibility.  Selfness is a condition of consciousness, a unique and important faculty of identity.  It isn’t random, it doesn’t come from nowhere.  It comes from within the mind and the fact that there IS a mind at all is crucial.  Why?  Why have a mind?  Of what evolutionary use is a mind?  All creatures have minds and some of them may be highly organized and developed.  We have no idea what goes on in the mind of an animal like a whale or an elephant.  It seems clear from observation that they are not automata.  Nor are they entirely conditioned by nature.  There is something else, something beyond our grasp, about the minds of other species.  We are desperately uninformed.  At best, we are guessing, by way of zoologists, veterinarians, communicators and empaths. 

What if a blue whale knows about the cosmos in an entirely different way?  What if its brain produces some profound psychedelic that eludes human beings? In its own way, as it sounds the depths, it may be swimming among the stars.  Is there not an inner life within the life we see? Should not a bear possess an inner life?  Does not its memory belong to the universe?