DIY-HP-LED
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All these things, like Trump Qanon and antivaxxer bullshit, is fear driven, that's the con artist's and the Russian's ticket in. The same internet that filled their heads with bullshit also gave them an emotional and social support network and turned them into a tribe, or church, united by a common belief and driven by hate and fear.And despite still being a hopeless buffoon, people are still buying Trump crap and festooned their shitty little homes with it out here. I've never seen anything like this. But Russia just saw in us what we could not see - or WOULD not see - in our own society.
They got the ball rolling. But we brought it up to speed and ran it through the doors of the Capitol.
So maybe we are the fist. We allowed those with power to create a massive income inequality that disenfranchised our underclasses and benefit the rich and powerful for decades and we mostly sat back and watched it happen because we were doing ok. We allowed racism to continue in the dark corners of our country for decades. By doing these things we pretty much opened the door to the racists and self-serving cocksuckers to whisper "your life is shit because of minorities seeking equality and immigrants taking your jobs" and it resonated with a full third of our people or more.
We probably deserved this and we probably still do. Russia just helped make sure it came to a head.
Baldrick, according to Buddhist psychology and the regular ones don't argue with it much, since many practice too. We have 6 "roots of mind" the primitive social emotions, that are driven by conditioned approach avoidance behaviors that we share with all animals and that drive all consciousnesses through space and time. However this conditioning also alters our perception of reality both grossly and subtilty at the doorways of perception. The mind will always be under the influence of these 6 "roots of mind" the first three are positive and their corresponding negative roots. The first 3 are generosity, compassion (love) and wisdom. The three negative roots are Greed, hatred and delusion, it is at this layer in the stack that our intention is formed. we are happy in the first 3 roots of mind and unhappy in the final 3.
To take the pathological example of Donald, he lives in greed, hatred and delusion and does not know the joy of generosity, compassion (born of empathy) and wisdom. The things that drive the emotions that make life worth living. He is the most unwise person I have ever seen and I've seen a few. His fans are much the same only not brain damaged like Donald, just driven by conditioned feelings of avoidance or approach (greed), causing them to spend a lot of time in the last 3 emotional states and they suffer accordingly. Donald suffers too, he's like Sisyphus continually handling the big heavy stone of his inflated egoic sense of self. He does not love himself, he hates himself and hides what he truly is, a loser and he knows it deep down inside.