And then the worst snake of all is malevolence 00:00:00

and that's I think that's 00:00:03

technically correct because one of the things that you 00:00:05

View for example when you're looking at post-traumatic stress disorder is that it's almost always the case that someone who suffers from post-traumatic 00:00:08

stress disorder which you might think of as a real 00:00:15

...real-life... 00:00:19

reincarnation of the fall is that people encounter something malevolent. 00:00:20

And it breaks them because it's the worst thing to understand. It's like suffering is one thing man. That's that's bad enough. 00:00:25

Vulnerability and suffering - that's bad enough. But to encounter someone who wishes that upon you and will work to bring it about, 00:00:32

that's a whole different category of horrible. Especially what it also 00:00:39

reflects something back to you about yourself. Because if someone else can do that to you 00:00:43

and they're human, that means that you partake of the same essence. Strangely enough 00:00:49

that's actually the cure, to some degree, to post-traumatic stress disorder. 00:00:54

Is it like if you've been victimized, you're naive 00:00:57

and you've been victimized - the way out of that is to no longer be naive and to no longer be 00:01:00

victimized. And that means that you you see this reflected in the Harry Potter idea, for example that the reason that Harry Potter can withstand 00:01:05

Voldemort is because he's got a piece of him. Right, 00:01:12

he's being touched by it. And the way that you... the way that you keep the psychopaths at bay is to develop the inner 00:01:16

psychopath, so that you know one when you see one. 00:01:22

Right... and then... but that's a voluntary 00:01:25

thing. It's... it's, so it's like a... it's like a a set of tools that you have at your disposal, 00:01:26

which is full knowledge of evil, 00:01:31

and that does - Nietzsche said if you look into an abyss for too long you risk having the abyss gaze back into you, right? 00:01:33

The idea is that if you look at something monstrous you have a tendency to turn into a monster. And people are often very 00:01:40

afraid of looking at monstrous things exactly for that reason. 00:01:46

And then the question is: "Well, should you turn into a monster?" And the answer to that is "Yes, 00:01:49

you should." But you should do it voluntarily and not accidentally, and you should do it with the good in mind 00:01:54

rather than falling prey to it by possession essentially, because that's the alternative. How does it possess you? That's easy - 00:02:01

your suffering makes you bitter, your bitterness makes you resentful, you resentfullment 00:02:08

inaudible makes you vengeful. And once you're on that road you go down that a little bit further, man. 00:02:14

Well you end up... 00:02:21

fantasizing in your basement about shooting up the local high school and then killing yourself, right? Because that's sort of the ultimate 00:02:22

end of that line of pathological reasoning - being should be eradicated because of its intrinsic evil 00:02:27

and I'm exactly the person to do it and I'll cap it off with an indication of my own lack of worth just to hammer the point home. 00:02:34

Right, and if I can garner a little post... 00:02:40

post posthumous fame along the way well that'll satisfy my primordial primate dominance hierarchy 00:02:43

imaginings too at least in fantasy. So you know, 00:02:50

it's the full package if you want to go down that route. And of course, people don't like to think about that sort of thing 00:02:52

and it's no bloody wonder, but without the capability for mayhem, you're... you're, you're... you're a potential victim to mayham. 00:02:57

So you need your sword. It should be sheath, 00:03:05

but you need to have it. And it's very frequently the case. If you treat someone with post-traumatic stress disorder 00:03:08

there's two things you have to do: (1) you have to help them develop a very 00:03:14

articulated Philosophy of Evil, 00:03:18

because otherwise their brain bothers them over and over and over: "What? Why were you so dealing with Naive? 00:03:20

How did you become victimized? Why were you such a sucker?" These are good questions 00:03:26

- you don't want to have that happen to you again. You don't want to be exploited twice. 00:03:30

Okay, so your eyes have to open up. 00:03:34

We know the price of that from the egyptian myth, 00:03:36

right? You come into contact with Set - what happens? Even if you're a God, you lose an eye. It's no joke, man. 00:03:38

It's no joke. And then the cure for that is the movement down into the underworld and with the revitalization of the father. 00:03:45

That's the identification with the force that created culture, right? And that then there's you and that together then you can withstand 00:03:51

malevolence. Maybe you can withstand tragedy and malevolence. And then that's the whole secret, right? Because that's what you want in life - 00:03:59

you need to be able to withstand tragedy and you need to be able to withstand malevolence, because those are the forces. 00:04:05

They're always working against you. And so, 00:04:11

it's just this is associated with the jungian idea of incorporation of the shadow - 00:04:13

right, you have to be... We know this, God! We know how predators work with regards to children even! if you're a 00:04:18

pedophilic predator, and you're looking at a 00:04:25

landscape of children, the child that you're going to go after is the one that's timid and won't fight back. 00:04:29

You've picked your victim. And predatory people in general are exactly like that man. They're... because they're predators, 00:04:35

they're not going to attack someone who's who's going to fight back. 00:04:42

In fact, the issue is likely not to even come up. 00:04:45

They're going to be looking for someone - one way or another - that cannot conceptualize what they are. 00:04:49

And then... perfect! it's... it's open season, man. It's open season and so if you're treating someone with post-traumatic stress disorder 00:04:55

first they need an introduction to the philosophy of malevolence and (2) second they have to learn to become dangerous, because that's the only way out. 00:05:03

What's the alternative? 00:05:11

They get these recurrent thoughts about their vulnerability in the face of 00:05:13

malevolence and their own naivety because, by definition, if someone psychopathic has exploited you, you're too naive. 00:05:17

It's a definitional issue. You can say: "Well, that's no fault of mine! 00:05:25

How the hell could I be prepared?!" Fair enough, man. A perfectly reasonable objection doesn't solve your problem, 00:05:28

because it's an... it's an eternal problem. 00:05:35