Are People Bad?

Are People Bad?

John Bruna spoke last night at this facility. He has a great story of nothing but potential for failure and a different path through sobriety and Buddhist monkhood. He, of course, has great compassion and believes no one wants to be a bad person. I wish I could agree with him.

My experience (and knowledge of human history) leads me to believe that disgusting numbers of humans strive to be bad people. Correspondingly, societies tend toward dictatorship where good people "need" harsh judgements from bad people - dictators.

It is the one hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The reason the peasant class could not achieve a socialist liberty from the tsarist and aristocratic oppression is because the revolutionary leaders became replacement dictators. In striving to eliminate the inherently bad oppressors they became those self-same oppressors.

"I have confronted the enemy and it is me." [Origin unknown]

Boards of Directors and executive suites of the US. corporatocracy are the current bad people dictators. No evolution to evil of the proletariat can confront and over throw stable and concentrated evil of the gangster shot callers of the corporate construct. There is the possibilty of the gov't corpse rotting from under the construct; as desired by the drain-the-swamper’s. This will be the only sliver of hope for good people to revolt, and destabilize the corporate dictatorship. The more likely result will be formal reconstitution as an official corporatocracy. We just cannot
become evil enough to confront the current Board of Directors paradigm of dictatorship.

Hows that for some daily optimism? Love, Jason