We Humans Are "Energy Feeding Creatures" And So Our Politics Tend To "Fission" Or "Fusion"
We are energy-feeding creatures and Trump feeds on the energy released by vandal-destruction.
Ultimately, there are two ways to secure energy - "fission" or "fusion."
By breaking apart, or putting together.
By tearing down, or building up.
Trump's impulses are essentially destructive... which is to say he makes energy available by fissile de-structuring.
At bottom, Destructive Donald -- and his Deplorables -- delight in tearing down and breaking apart. Hence their formative - and persistent - fondness for forceful solutions backed by belligerence.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/01/blue-collar-whites-are-abandoning-trump.html (I just came upon the following late-life comment by Martin Luther King Jr.: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.")
To date, the destructiveness of Trump's politics have thrilled his followers like the titillation of broken-window-vandalism, or a high school quarterback visiting the town whorehouse on Daddy's dime. (Notably, Trump's approval rating among American males has risen 6% since Stormy Daniels' revelations.)
Decades ago, I stumbled on an unusually satisfying definition of evil: "Destruction for its own sake."
Shortly after World War I began, H.G. Wells noted that "human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
On one hand we have knowledgeable people -- people who actually know something beyond the bubble of "fake news," "alternative facts," "conspiracy theories" and "science denial" -- people who use painstakingly-acquired knowledge to build a better world.
On the other hand, we have "class clowns" still specializing in antic side-shows to distract from their essential vacuity and the destructiveness that comes in tow. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/04/friend-adaires-facebook-post-about.html
The upshot?
Some people "have a life."
Others, in the absence of a "life," try to fill the gnawing void with fatuous drama tending toward dimwit destruction.
We are energy-feeding creatures and Trump feeds on the energy released by vandal-destruction.
Ultimately, there are two ways to secure energy - "fission" or "fusion."
By breaking apart, or putting together.
By tearing down, or building up.
Trump's impulses are essentially destructive... which is to say he makes energy available by fissile de-structuring.
At bottom, Destructive Donald -- and his Deplorables -- delight in tearing down and breaking apart. Hence their formative - and persistent - fondness for forceful solutions backed by belligerence.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/01/blue-collar-whites-are-abandoning-trump.html (I just came upon the following late-life comment by Martin Luther King Jr.: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.")
To date, the destructiveness of Trump's politics have thrilled his followers like the titillation of broken-window-vandalism, or a high school quarterback visiting the town whorehouse on Daddy's dime. (Notably, Trump's approval rating among American males has risen 6% since Stormy Daniels' revelations.)
Decades ago, I stumbled on an unusually satisfying definition of evil: "Destruction for its own sake."
Shortly after World War I began, H.G. Wells noted that "human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
On one hand we have knowledgeable people -- people who actually know something beyond the bubble of "fake news," "alternative facts," "conspiracy theories" and "science denial" -- people who use painstakingly-acquired knowledge to build a better world.
On the other hand, we have "class clowns" still specializing in antic side-shows to distract from their essential vacuity and the destructiveness that comes in tow. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/04/friend-adaires-facebook-post-about.html
The upshot?
Some people "have a life."
Others, in the absence of a "life," try to fill the gnawing void with fatuous drama tending toward dimwit destruction.
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