Trump played footsies
for the very first time with his arch-gnat nemesis Acosta during the
coronovirus briefing of March 31st. The previous
day’s briefing was, as typical, contentious between the two, but this one was
almost a one-on-one sit-down between them. Acosta was plopped-down right in
front of the podium and was allowed to ask an inordinate amount of questions,
being treated more like the teacher’s pet than a belligerent brat. But the
point is, right after that briefing Acosta gentle informed his fellow CNNite
Anderson of his newly found affection for the president, accurately describing
a new spirit that had now infected Trump himself:
“Anderson, I have to convey to you sitting in that place
that near to him, I’ve never ever observed President Trump like this ….he is
scared right now….This was a different Donald Trump tonight, I think he gets it.”
Trump got it alright, he
got the virus; that is, infected by the panic. Yes, Trump even mentioned the shocks he
received that week when an overweight elderly friend of his got the virus and
reportedly went rapidly down hill and that he had seen a video (psyops much?)
of his boyhood neighborhood where refrigerator semi-trailers were lined up
outside the community hospital to deal with the expected overflow of corpses. Trump has experienced as well a
constant brainwashing barrage of stultifying statistics by the CDC
apparatchiks/doctors Fauci & Birk, et.al. Of course, we keep hope alive
and pray that Trump will recover quickly for the sake of the economy and
liberty (inter alia, this author recommends the highly
effective, but both initially outlawed, combined remedies of hydroxychloroquine and psychomoralitics).
And there is indeed a
glimmer of hope, for Trump is not your average politician or government
bureaucrat; he lived a life of not mere hype but one that required him to
“get ‘er done!’ Skyscrapers do not rise, much less stand, due to hyperbole
alone. Your average politician or government bureaucrat, on the other hand,
exists in a world of smoke and mirrors; of words but no truth; of laws but no
justice; of lawyers and judges but no jurisprudence. These State minions are so
full of pure pride and self-love, so caught up in an all engrossing egoistic
power curve, that they live in an alternative reality, out of touch with even
the law of gravity; a law the egoistic but realistic Trump had to take into
consideration when building an empire of hotels and high-rises. But though
Trump is in touch with certain material realities he is only in touch with material realities. Trump, like
any good red-blooded American, is a materialist, and a lustful hedonist to
boot. Yes, as per Acosta, Trump is very afraid, for all that he values is of
the egoistic coins of wealth and pleasure, and in this he is just as much an
egoist as all the denizens of the deep state.
Though Trump has, I
believe, an outstanding understanding of what is good economically for the USA
in the superficial short term (and any resurgence of the USA is but a short
term death rally), this understanding says nothing about his depth, morality,
or wisdom. (In contrast, when you read the Austrians you note something even
more important than their economic theory: a larger and deeper wisdom. And
because economics is at times a crap shoot and at other times a swindle it
doesn’t abide by the ideal, though the Austrian ideal still needs to be upheld
so as to be able to recognize and reckon with the financial malfeasance.)
Trump, notwithstanding his genius and truly great accomplishments, is devoid of
deep morality, much less spirituality. While he does indeed have a most
magnificent brass ego, it is a brass plating and thus superficial.
So one should not look to
Trump (a serial polygamist and sexual libertine to put it mildly) for
wisdom or moral leadership. One should look rather to oneself; to one’s loved
ones; to the wise among one’s friends; to one’s God. But that is, if, and only
if, one has a rightly informed conscience; if one has true love; if one has
such friends; if one has so much as God. And that is indeed a big “if.” For today’s Western population is itself superficial,
immature, and egoistic. In this Trump is truly a populist phenomenon. And the
population such as it is, like Trump himself, is easily manipulated and
enslaved, which has been readily attested to in the pandemic panic.
But still make no
mistake, there is a deadly, relentless, and unstoppable virus among us, and
sooner or later this virus ends in death. Look to your left, look to your
right, look all around, then look in the mirror and realize that everyone
you’ve gazed upon is infected with and will succumb to this virus. Of course, I
speak of the virus of mortality, and yes, the population of the West and those
within its universal realm of influence are in denial. This is why there is
pan[ic]demic, for when death or its threat becomes real the third millennium
population is found to be wanting in maturity, wanting in accepting reality,
wanting in wisdom, wanting in courage. Today’s hopelessly immature, unrealistic, foolish, and cowardly
Westerner, et al., could be paleontologically dubbed
“technarcistic man;” for the person of the third millennium has a recalcitrant
pride inured in a myriad of technological ways from the humiliation of
existence.
Maturity is the ability
to say yes to reality whether or not one likes that
reality; that is, to accept the fact that I am not the center of the universe;
that stuff happens; that “God’s ways are not man’s ways.” (IS 55:8) Maturity
then most poignantly means accepting one’s mortality. And it is the wise and
fully alive man who muses on and embraces this mortality and thus muses on and
embraces the fullness of reality and existence in both its sorrows and its
joys. But because technarcistic man lacks maturity and wisdom, he lacks the
courage to so muse upon and embrace the fullness of human existence, living
instead a cramped and paltry life of egoistic apprehension.
Because a technarcistic population has no baseline
maturity, no basic acceptance of reality, not an inkling of wisdom, it is most
susceptible to cowardly panic. Yes, a person and society should respond to immediate threats,
but to do so in a prudent and effective manner requires a grounded point of
reference. In the case of responding prudently to a pandemic, or any physical
trauma or threat, this grounding is the acceptance of the baseline reality of
one’s inherent physical vulnerability and mortality. From this grounding then
comes the maturity, wisdom, and courage to take responsibility for one’s
existence, to take responsibility for one’s loved ones, to take responsibility
for the drama of life as it unfolds in the sacrament of the moment.
But the unrealistic, immature, foolish, and cowardly
technarcistic masses take no responsibility for their existence. Rather, when a
crisis strikes, they look to the State to take responsibility, to save and
comfort them. They look to the first responders: the police, paramedics, or
even coroners (for they know not even how to mourn without the State!). They
look to the State and its elected, appointed, or careerists governmental
officials to inform them and order them. But such an abdication of
responsibility leads inexorably to slavery, for when one looks to a godless
entity to save you, you will find one that will surely enslave you.
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It is the fear that stems from an egoistic pride and
self-love that keeps one from looking at and accepting the humiliation of
reality. It is this egoistic fear that keeps one from humbly taking
responsibility and maturing. It is egoistic fear that leads to prideful
foolhardiness. It is egoistic fear that creates the cringing coward. Indeed,
egoistic fear is dehumanizing, for it debilities the spiritual ability of the
soul to assent to truth and choose the good. Yes, it is the egoistic fear, like the
imago Dei itself, that is of the spiritual realm. It is the egoistic
fear that emanates often in an irrational way from the pride and self love. It is an egoistic fear
that reacts by either flight or fight, and thus in panic binds the intellect
and will (as St Thomas Aquinas says) with irrational passions of self-love and
pride. Yes, it is an egoistic fear deeper than that experienced by brute
animals, for it is deeper than mere physical fear, for even physical fear finds
it deepest anguish in the humiliation of the ego and sorrow of the soul.
The image of God is
inherent in all human person’s regardless of creed or lack thereof. It is of
nature, and not of grace, that the human person is made in God’s image. The
human soul, unlike brute animals, has with God an akin spiritual and natural
ability to reason and choose; that is, to assent to truth and love the good.
This ability is what it means to be made in God’s image. This ability to
assent to truth and love the good is the most awesome of creaturely abilities and
thus its righteous exercise is the most awesome of responsibilities.
Indeed, this imago Dei
ability to reason and choose is what it specifically means to be human. For
this human ability to reason and choose is nothing less than what it means to
be a moral being. Indeed, it is what it means to have freewill, and thus its
preservation and promotion is essential for the preservation and promotion of
freedom itself. Enslavement does not begin first in the mind, much less the
flesh; but in the soul, where the ego reacts fearful and to some degree
irrationally to the threat of humiliation.
But “be not afraid.” (MT 14:27) That is, succumb not to
your fears, and you will not be susceptible to manipulation: be that
manipulation by the State, the flesh, or the devil himself. It is only by
restoring the image of God (which is the goal of the clinical discipline of
psychomoralitics) where one maturely receives the real, wisely assents to
truth, and courageously chooses the good, that will both defeat the manipulation
and enslavement of evil and ensure the freedom and exaltation of the authentic
human spirit; which is indeed the freedom and exaltation of that very image of
God.
Dr. G.C.
Dilsaver, [send
him mail] P/M, Psy.D, M.T.S, who early in his career was touted as
the “father of
Christian psychology” by the Catholic University of America,
has formally repudiated in toto the
mental health profession and explicated its viable antidotal alternative with
the soul-deep science of Psychomoralitics. You may email him at the Institute
of Psychomoralitics: admin@souldeepscience.com.
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