I once saw an image of a man standing on a pipe discharging toxic pollution into a river. His body language and facial expression was essentially one of saying to the natural world ‘f… you! You might be beautiful, but I will have the last laugh’. His brutal defiance and indifference deeply resonated. My basic psychological reality is of being a ‘Power Addict’ (see 'Freedom The End Of The Human Condition', chapter 6:16, by Australian biologist Jeremy Griffith). The descriptions of this mentality include ‘win at all times and at all costs’, ‘ruthless’, ‘manipulative’, ‘need for glory’, ‘deceitful’, ‘narcissistic’, and ‘psychopath’. I visualise my power addict state as a freight train. This idiom captures the energy, momentum, intensity and force of my commitment to selfishness and pursuing power, success and glory at all costs behind a veneer of civility. It reflects the scale of my deluded, false self-image of who I am and what I think I am capable of. It reflects the intensity of my anger toward criticism, the suggestion I am not able to do something. It is easy to wince at the perceived ugliness of this brutality, selfishness, insecurity and falseness, to want to turn away, to pretend it is not that bad but that is all old, redundant thinking. With the benefit of Jeremy Griffith’s breakthrough explanation of the human condition I can stand before all aspects of my power addict state uncondemned. There is nothing to flinch at. This is me. It is who I am. I don’t need to brace myself one bit to look at it. I can be untouchable from shame and guilt, it is all explainable. It is massive but that is OK. I can embrace this truth about me. This brings greater self-awareness and dissipates this mentality that is driving every aspect of my behaviour.This explanation of the human condition redeems me. That is why it is so unique and therefore special because only this information allows me to understand, using first principle science—in particular biology—to explain how I could be good when I appear bad. I don’t have rely on a dogmatic affirmation. It doesn’t use more delusion, lies, evasions to try and render over the cracks of my upset. This knowledge is an honest and authentic safe harbour for me and every human. The peace and relief that comes with that is astonishing. This honesty, getting real about who we are is what allows selfishness and denial—which causes so much pain and destruction on our planet—to stop.
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