Thread by @caitoz

‘Successful’ People Are Misery Super-Spreaders

Our society is set up to elevate the most miserable and dysfunctional people to the highest positions of influence, which results in their misery and dysfunction being efficiently spread around the world.
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“We are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.”
~ Terence McKenna

The term “super-spreader” has been popping up a lot in mainstream news media in reference to President Trump and his habit of hosting of events without social distancing precautions.

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It’s an interesting phrase, because it highlights not just the way America’s plutocrat president conducts himself in the midst of a novel coronavirus, but the way he and his ilk live their lives generally as well.

What this means is that those who wind up having the most influence over the most people are the ones who made doing so their highest priority in life.

That’s what the most influential human beings in our world have poured their life’s energy into, generally speaking. Not into personal maturity and healing, but into conquest and power. Everything in our society encourages this. We're trained to value it.
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Which causes a lot of problems, because what our society really needs above all else is healing and maturity. Being a small human in our world is a highly traumatic experience.
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In childhood we’re surrounded by confused giants who move in scary, unpredictable ways and unwittingly pass on to their children a lot of the trauma they picked up from their own childhoods.
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Everyone carries trauma and delusion with them. We would live in a much healthier society if people prioritized becoming a healthy human being: healing their past trauma, becoming conscious of their inner processes, emotionally maturing, and learning to love themselves.

Which of course results in the most unconscious, unhealthy people having the most degree of influence over everyone else. It results in a kakistocracy, where the world’s most miserable and dysfunctional people are elevated to super-spreader points of influence.

And so you wind up with the most powerful government in the world being led by a man who @DrGaborMate once described as “the clearest example of a traumatized politician one could ever see.”
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In a healthy society it would be the exact opposite. We would be encouraged to prioritize the journey into health, consciousness and compassion, and our institutions would provide an abundance of support in that journey.

Here’s hoping we find a way to collectively move out of super-spreader kakistocracy and into health.