All the machinations of human advancement grind down the human being into unhappiness and despair. The culprits for perpetuating this human tragedy can be clearly identified. But the unhappiness that is self inflected is another animal all together.
The unhappiness of the sinner; the unhappiness of the narcissist; the unhappiness of the megalomaniac are all choices we make for ourselves in the art of unhappiness.
Man will give up anything but his suffering! sings the poet.
The sinner believes, through religious faith or ignorance that his every act is contrary to God’s law. Every thought is spied on and judged by the all-seeing-power of the ‘creative one’. Every useless emotion that flits through the sinner’s consciousness is a comment from, or a symbol of, the sinner’s guilt at being separated from the parent/creator.
The narcissist reverses the sinner’s affliction and centers all their love and interest totally on the self. Nothing outside of them is of any real interest. Self-absorption gradually eats away at even the love they have for themselves, wrapping themselves in profound unhappiness to punish the world for not loving them enough.
The megalomaniac is in love with power. Unlike the narcissist, the megalomaniac dispenses with charm, and desires only the constant reinforcement of the power he seeks. However, the greater the power achieved the greater the desire for more and the constant unhappiness with the inability to be satisfied by the power he has.
To be continued...
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