Idealizing is seductive...

Taking responsibility makes you uncomfortable.

The problem is not only who falls. He is the one to whom we give our credibility without question. I say this because when we idealize, we stop thinking. And when that person we idealize fails, the world doesn't break, only the illusion breaks.

It is good to admire but not to deify. We have to trust, but with criteria because our conscience is not delegated. Over the years I have encountered situations very similar to this.

Here I am going to write something that may sound heavy to a question that was asked recently that made me reflect.
It is assumed on any ideology or political label and with total contempt to those who ask and to the so-called public opinion.

Only respect power and strength.

He is a predator, a dangerous man or woman. He knows that a businessman and a politician, is justified by his successes and achievements, no matter the forms and means.

He is the Prince of Machiavelli, who incarnated in Cesar Borgia, without moral limits, without scruples, willing to do anything, in order to achieve his goals.

People definitely don't want to take responsibility, people just want to idealize. Because I think it's easier for them to put someone on a pedestal than to develop their own criteria.

It is more comfortable to admire without questioning than to take on the task of thinking. Perhaps it is easier to point outside than to look inside.

I also think that every time we give our consciousness to another, we give up our maturity. True growth begins when we stop looking for idols and start holding our own inner authority.

There are those who climb mountains to see the world, and those who climb them so that the world can see them. The difference is not in the top, but in the intention.

The dominant nihilism of the last century, which emptied us of sacredness and sense of community, local and universal, basically individualized us as consumers and condemned us to solitude, in an amorphous mass, which gathers, but is not seen, and to "detachment" when we are no longer useful.

This explains, in my opinion, in part, the fear of our nocturnal nightmares and anxiety and fear about the future. We are so childish, that we always hope that someone will give us a toy and that someone will always promise us a better future.

What I'm writing about today reminds me of the myth of El Dorado, which was to motivate the conquistadors to come en masse and occupy these Venezuelan lands, just as happened with the gold rush in North America, to run and idealize the seductive rumor of gold so that thousands of people would come to occupy the west coast of the USA and try the newly conquered place.

If human beings reject something, it is the "reality-real". We strive to see only what suits us. Self-deception is our most recurrent fantasy in the face of ideology.

Janitze 🌹