Be a Monster

LOTR The Return of the King - 

Extended Edition - 

Aragorn Masters the Palantir

“...and then, the worst snake of all is Malevolence. 

And I think that’s technically correct, because one of the things you view, for example, when you are looking at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is that it’s almost always the case that someone who suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (which you might think of as a real,  real-life, reincarnation of The Fall) is that people encounter something Malevolent.

And it breaks them - 

because it’s 

The Worst Thing to Understand.

And it’s like, 

‘Suffering is one thing, man- that’s bad enough.’ 

Vulnerability and Suffering — that’s bad enough.

But to encounter 

Someone Who Wishes That Upon You, and Will Work to Bring it About — 

That’s a whole different category of Horrible

Especially when it reflects something back to you  about yourself, because if Someone Else can do that to you, and they’re human, then that means that 

 You partake of the same essence.

Strangely enough, 

That’s actually The Cure 

 to some degree to 

Post-Traumatic Distress Disorder.

Like, if you’re a Victim, and you’ve been Victimised, the way out of that is to no longer be naive, and to no longer be victimised, and that means that you -

You see this reflected in the Harry Potter idea, for example, the reason that Harry Potter can withstand Voldemort is that he’s got a piece of him.

He’s been touched by it.

And the way that you keep the psychopaths at bay is to develop The Inner Psychopath, so that you know one when you see one.

But that’s a voluntary thing — it’s like a set of tools which you have at your disposal, and that’s Full Knowledge of Evil.

Nietchze said, if you look into an abyss for too long, you risk having the abyss gaze back into you.

The idea is that  if you look at something monstrous for too long, you have a tendency to turn into a Monster.

And people are often very afraid of looking at Monstrous Things for exactly that reason.

And the question then is 

 ‘Well, should you turn into a Monster?’

And the answer to that is 

 ‘YES — You Should. 

But you should do it voluntarily, 

and not accidentally, 

and you should do it with The Good in mind,  

rather than falling prey to it by possession, essentially.’