When will we stop electing people to public positions who portray themselves or those they serve under as martyrs. Which in a infantile way obviously inflates themselves, their own position, which aims to benefit themselves, their contributors or benefactors instead of those they are set to act for in their place. And who do not constantly compensate for their shortcomings against people’s real need for care and public service with messiah-like grandeur or personal shortcomings with martyrdom. Instead of just doing the right thing in the way that follows from their position. How far must we push this before it goes too far. When will people grow up and realize that it is like this because of each and every one of us. It is our martyr and messiah swings we see in others. Cheered as they are by us. Which makes them what they are. It is not the fault of either the state, the ”public” or the ”private sector”. They are what we make them. Between these violent emotional swings, we are human beings of flesh and blood. With everyday needs and human relationships that correspond to our lives. Martyrs or saviors is just an outward face. A mask we use to portrait ourselves and hide what our true personal characteristics are that is hidden behind it. Something we do to avoid our own responsibility to our inner person.
We have been repeating this for over two thousand years now. When have we had enough?
What I say in no way means that I am exempt from their influence on me. They affect me like everyone else as one of many pairs of opposites to the objective psychic properties we all have in common. But the ability to observe them comes from the awareness that we see them within us at the same time as they arise outside us, and that they act in the same way within us as they do in other people, but without us either praising them or condemning their objective existence. It is about the relationship between us and ourselves. About us being able to trust that we can safely relate to it in others too.
A similar comparison can be made with the money supply. It is also based on the reality of an opposite pair. For someone to have a shortage of money, someone else must have a surplus. Which simply means that we can have whatever opinions we want about it, but not realizing that the dark side of an excess is always someone else’s deficit, is to expose others to the suffering that it entails when people suffer from it. This is more about the money supply and its psychology than anything else. About how objective psychic properties interact with our thinking, our imaginings and our psychic reflection. And how they make us shape our relationship with it through our emotional life. While this strives for a paradisiacal sense of a freedom from psychological opposites and physical suffering, it also what prevents us from interacting with the world from within. Here, too, we constantly find ourselves oscillating between both messianic greatness and martyrdom in the moral conflict we face within ourselves when we encounter it.