This is the situation of many in the face of the ongoing transgressions (misbehavior) of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, the stupidity and the cheap and mediocre tactics of the Democratic Party establishment, of unfair "neo-liberalism" in service to abusive Capitalism, and these days, of the governors of some states and the police departments of some cities.
Anger.
Well-deserved, well-warranted.But also, serving a devilish, diabolical agenda.
You don't think they knew that their actions would provoke anger?
So, now, consider:
What happens when you get angry about something you can do nothing about?
It's the "do nothing about" part that really gets you, isn't it?
It's about, "the uncontrollable 'other'".
Eats you up, inside?
Makes you more adamant? More self-protective? More irritable? Less able to cooperate smoothly? Less intelligent?
"Divide and conquer".
Some people have recognized the "divide and conquer" strategy of the neo-"Conservatives" and neo-"Liberals". But they have misunderstood it.
They think it's about pitting people or groups or social movements against each other.
That's the weak form of, "divide and conquer".
The strong version is, pitting people against themselves.
Let me frame the situation a new way:
The Pandemic of Stupidity
There is a pandemic of a virus -- not the coronavirus, but of another virus, a kind of virus that infests people's intelligence.
This virus is contagious. This virus contaminates all thinking, feeling, and action. It impairs people's judgment. It makes people more emotionally reactive. It makes people more likely to act ineffectively, even foolishly, regrettably, even stupidly -- in areas of life entirely other than, "politics"; it adds to people's stress level, affecting ALL areas of life. It makes us more likely to "lose it" and less likely make "connections".
It's a contributor to the pandemic of stupidity we are reading about and seeing, in the news.
Trump, the political parties both here in the U.S.A. and elsewhere in the world, global corporations operating within a system of abusive Capitalism -- and everyone affected by the stupidities of these groups -- are contagious carriers.
That's the strong form of "divide and conquer". Very clever. Now, seen.
What to Do? What to Do?
I'm definitely not saying to let them get away with it. I'm not saying to suppress, deny, squelch, or control the anger. It can't be dealt with, that way.
It has to be done in a way that frees your intelligence, that does not use up more of it by attempting to oppose what is really justified anger. It has to be done in a way that actually heightens your intelligence, your freedom, your energy.
It has to be done in a way that results in your being wiser -- more savvy.
sav·vy
/ˈsavē/
INFORMAL
noun
- shrewdness and practical knowledge; the ability to make good judgments."the political parties lacked the necessary political savvy"
adjective
- shrewd and knowledgeable; having common sense and good judgment.
How can that be done?
It has to be done through, "release".
ON RELEASE
People commonly confuse release with catharsis -- acting out.
That's not release. It's mere fulfillment of the pattern.
It doesn't change the pattern. It doesn't even lead to lasting relief or improve our way of operating.
Release is, "dissolution".
To dissolve is to go into solution, to lose solidity, to be dispersed.
When anger (and stupid impulses) dissolve, they leave clarity in a more resourceful state.
Release clears your mind. It makes room for intelligence.
HOW TO RELEASE
How do you do that with an emotion? -- especially a justified emotion?
That seems like forgiving an unforgivable act, doesn't it?
It isn't. It's about reclaiming your faculties so that you can handle the unforgivable act in a way that rectifies (as in causing restitution of) the situation.
It isn't. It's about reclaiming your faculties so that you can handle the unforgivable act in a way that rectifies (as in causing restitution of) the situation.
Steps of Release
The first step is to recognize that, by holding on to anger, you are poisoning yourself -- and hoping to make the other person(s) die.
You can't release anger, directly. Release occurs when you perceive both the situation and your own responses, comprehensively. Release is the product of direct self-perception of the whole sense of quandary in which you find yourself.
Release is not the product of an intellectual, moral, rationalizing process or mental reasoning. It's not the result of ethical injunctions, psychological knowledge, or problem-solving of any kind.
Instead, it's the result of the second step: recognizing the felt "structure" of the bind in which you find yourself. That recognition immediately prompts a spontaneous release and relief.
I'll explain the second step, briefly, and that's the last thing I'll say before I put before you a process that actually accomplishes that recognition and release.
Every experience consists of four component aspects:
ATTENTION:MEMORY:INTENTION: IMAGINATION
DISTINCTNESS:RELATEDNESS:DIFFERENCE:OTHERNESS
DISTINCTNESS:RELATEDNESS:DIFFERENCE:OTHERNESS
I think you can tell, immediately, that each of these four is a "rabbit hole" with great depth. They add up to your feeling of any experience being "substantial" (or having a certain persistence, solidity, and effect upon you that makes you feel like you have to get involved with something you don't quite understand or perhaps can't affect).
Fortunately, you don't have to make mental sense of these component aspects to have this work. In fact, you have to let go of mental analysis or mere mental understanding -- to secure a direct perception of the feelings beneath the words.
This is not something many people are equipped to do. People have been "educated" to do the opposite -- to think, to analyze, or else just to act on their impulses based upon what they think they know.
That all works about as well as the news portrays.
That all works about as well as the news portrays.
The contamination by that virus continues unabated and -- worse than uncontrolled -- abetted by its carriers. That means spread by everyone carrying that virus of anger and stupidity.
So, this is the missing part.
Here's where I put before you a "self-reconditioning" procedure that makes it all plain.
Once you have this procedure, you can apply it to anything that makes you angry.
Waste no time hesitating. Spend the time doing this procedure until you start getting intuitive insight into your part in this, "divide and conquer" scheme.
Wouldn't you like to "win" over "the stupids", to get yourself out from under their thumbs, and instead of experiencing being pitted against yourself, experience the recovery of your faculties of intelligence at a higher level?
I knew you would.
The Four Diamonds
(the preparatory, quick preview)
(the preparatory, quick preview)
Note the link to the full-length procedure
in the upper right-hand corner "( i )".
