My take on this is that we create what we fear. Life in the US today is magnetized by stresses placed on our political system by a growing partisan divide, creating a threat to each sides moral values. When our sacred cows come under threat it creates stress, our values are the source of our personal pride, the ethics we hold that create a sense of self worth and value when practiced. Any challenge to their authenticity is a threat to our self perceived and imagined dignity and are experienced as corruptive moral rot owing to the fact that the way values are transmitted to children is via charges of crime worthy punishment.
When we experience the perception of moral crime, the stress that is generated is the fear that catastrophic punishment is around the corner generating a powerful …
My take on this is that we create what we fear. Life in the US today is magnetized by stresses placed on our political system by a growing partisan divide, creating a threat to each sides moral values. When our sacred cows come under threat it creates stress, our values are the source of our personal pride, the ethics we hold that create a sense of self worth and value when practiced. Any challenge to their authenticity is a threat to our self perceived and imagined dignity and are experienced as corruptive moral rot owing to the fact that the way values are transmitted to children is via charges of crime worthy punishment.
When we experience the perception of moral crime, the stress that is generated is the fear that catastrophic punishment is around the corner generating a powerful intent to not relive the the conditioning that inculcated our moral code. The fear of the future is generated by the fear it will be like our past hence the use of that same violence that insured our childhood behavior, if things go bad, will be justifiably revisited on us. We will feel an increasing opinion that it is OK to use violence to prevent any moral backsliding.
Sadly, all of this is the result of a moral self righteous belief that a person’s self worth is based on the virtue of what we believe, unaware that those values are conditioned feelings, unexamined but unconsciously held to be true. To break that mold is like dying spiritually and would destroy us emotionally, reawaken our traumatic past, hopeless and inwardly without anchor. Fortunately, the truth is that real moral value, all that we hope and dream for, the richness and joy of being alive are built into our genes, and it is via the loss of belief in the value of our sacred cows that allow a vision of the love within.
The door to heaven is hidden behind an imaginary vision of hell. There are ways to walk through the valley of the shadow of death. Seek the death of ego rather than the death of others.
It is natural and proper to defend yourself against those who won’t disengage from violence themselves toward you, but only if real threat is immediate and not imaginatively predicted. Until that time the which may never come is upon you the only threat you face is your own unconsciousness, the belief in inculcated external values as values that are real.