Yes, I see the truth in what you express here. What I have been trying to communicate to you for some time now is that your distaste for hate fests is based on sound and deeply valuable moral principles, certainly in my opinion at least. I understand also how this never changes. Hatred is morally repellant. It implies a low level of character and moral development and that in turn can create that feeling of being repelled by it, to want to oppose it when it raises its ugly head. It can create a feeling of righteous indignation.
My point about that, however, is rather subtle in the sense that righteous indignation, in my opinion is a form of bigotry that like all bigoted opinions is invisible to those who have them.
The key to unlocking what I am trying to express here, the wisdom I think can be garnered by the analysis I try to suggest is in operation here, the better way to look at this problem, etc, is, I am saying we have here is that there are moral principles that are real and valid and sensible but irrational ways to react to people who do not live up to them.
If you look at people who post here they are generally expressing moral outrage on the right and on the left. On whatever side you find yourself on, the other side creates of moral disgust, righteous indignation, etc. We are the good guys the other side is morally bankrupt.
I say there is a form of awakening that reveals a hidden side of this, a realization that moral outrage is itself a state of arrogance based on ego, an attempt by the ego to deny any association that would reveal one’s self to be just a different side of ‘ the disgusting’, that disgust is a natural protective that is the product of evolution and there to make us vomit and learn not to eat spoiled and dangerous food, and that by associations created by the use of language one can cause children to experience behaviors unwanted by parents because they are already previously programmed in their own childhoods to wish never to be made again to feel they themselves were disgusting, put us through the same programming.
The result is a world full of morally indignant people at war with each other filled with the unconscious experience to never eat what the other is serving, never aware that all that righteous indignation is just different forms of denial that it is the real unprogrammed self, our original selves that were made to dirty, disgusting, and dualistically evil.
So if you see that it is not just the other that is morally repellently, engaged in a hate fest, but actually the gag response initiated by a delusion it is being triggered from something disgusting ‘out there’, it changes the nature of the degree to which we can attach ourselves to the notion that we are the good guys. The sense of what is good and evil has been hijacked by the ego that hides behind a developed survival response etched into our genes to facilitate our own survival, a real moral good, to engage in a process where we can justify a contempt for others we ourselves were the targets of as children.
To hate hatred is bigotry because we always believe we know what is hate worthy and nothing is. We were never really disgusting but just made to feel that way because words with no truth to then can cause terrible emotional pain too painful for children to survive consciously aware of.
Hope this makes sense. The problem is that all accusations of moral inferiority have their origins in self contempt. Cheer up. You may be no better than the haters but they are no better than you. Abandoning self righteousness will only make you feel worthless because you had to believed and bury that lie to survive.
My cat is asleep in bed with me snoring in her sleep at my feet feeling no sense of superiority or inferiority asleep or awake at all. She can start to purr when I rub her chin and call her a bad kitty. Are you a bad kitty?
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