Some thoughts on sympathy, and how it can be manipulated with guilt, called “guilt manipulation”, to herd people towards desired outcomes.
“Socialism itself can hope to exist only for brief periods here and there, and then only through the exercise of the extremest terrorism. For this reason it is secretly preparing itself for rule through fear and is driving the word “justice” into the heads of the half-educated masses like a nail so as to rob them of their reason… and to create in them a good conscience for the evil game they are to play.”
~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for all the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ”
~C.S. Lewis
With sympathy, sympathetic people aren’t uncomfortable from their own feelings, but from seeing/hearing the painful feelings of others, so they then take the feelings from supposed victims, because taking on a victim’s feelings is more comfortable than letting the victim stay in those uncomfortable feelings. This means it isn’t about the other person, their experience, or any lessons that they need to learn from going through the experience, but about the sympathetic person rescuing themselves from their own discomfort that comes from watching/hearing supposed victims in discomfort. Sympathy is a form of theft, as it steals the outcomes from a so-called victim, which is in effect stealing what should be the victim’s responsibility from them, to take the burden of that responsibility onto themselves.
Whereas empathy is the emotional component of logic, as it asks ‘why’ questions to understand themselves and others better, sympathy is a means of bypassing around logic (or used instead of logic), and never truly understands ‘why’ things are as they are. Since sympathy doesn’t understand the self or other, it robs self and others from the opportunity to better understand their thoughts, feelings, and outcomes, and therefore there’s no way to learn from the experience, and they stay stuck in a perpetual loop/cycle. (For more on empathy vs sympathy, please see the following article and video HERE.)
Skilled manipulators understand sympathy, and are able to weaponize it in order to steer people towards desired outcomes. They harness moral busybodies through their sympathetic tendencies, and trick them into doing the dirty work for them, and such moral busybodies do it so well, because they do so with the approval of their own conscience. While these busybodies see themselves as heroes saving the day, in reality, they are the real villains oppressing their neighbors, and taking on the karma (dirty work) of the Elite.
In natural law it comes down to ‘do not steal’, do not take something that is not yours. Including taking someone’s rights to natural consequences. When people go around saving others, they essentially rob them of their experience, of their lesson. Today, in this world, we have a phenomenal number of people trying to save others. Entering into that trance of sympathy making others into victims so that they can save them from the virus/ unv’d…victim villain hero [Karpman’s] drama triangle.
The karmic toll is astounding. The hero’s taking the responsibility and therefore free-will from those they deem victims opens the door for their own free-will to be compromised.
~Katrina Bremner
- I’m more than happy to be loving when I’m empathetic.
- I can be more empathetic.
- I’m more than happy to be loving with a person when I am letting them be responsible for their own outcomes.
- I’m more than happy to interact with people when it’s done from within the TED Triangle.
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