Dhr.Chimp, Mevr.Bonobo & The Glorious Human Race?


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The Sinner,
The Narcissist
{see before in myDi or LJ} &
"The Megalomaniac"


The megalomaniac
differs from the narcissist
by the fact that he wishes to be powerful
rather than charming
and seeks to be feared
rather than loved!


To this type
belong many lunatics
and most of the 'great men'
in history?


Love of power,
like vanity, is a strong element in 'normal'
human nature,
and such is to be accepted;
IT becomes deplorable only when it is excessive
or associated with an insufficient sense
of reality.


Where THIS occurs,
it makes a man unhappy or foolish,
if not both!


The lunatic who thinks
he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, 'happy',
but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person
would envy.


Alexander the Great
was psychologically of the same type as the lunatic,
though he possessed the talent to achieve
the lunatic's dream.


He could not,
however, achieve his own dreams,
which enlarged its scope as his achievement
grew.


When it became clear
that he was the greatest conquerer known to fame,
he decided that he was
a god.


WAS he
a 'happy' man?
His drunkenness, his furious rages,
his indifference to women, and his claim to divinity,
suggest that he was
NOT.


There is
no ultimate satisfaction
in the cultivation of ONE element
{idolatry, sects, drugs, alcoholism}
of human nature at the expense
{Pim/Volkert, Theo/Mohammed?}
of all the others,
nor in viewing all the world as raw material
for the magnificence
of one's own
EGO
{Napoleone Buonaparte,
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao TseTse
DingDong, Saddamn Woestijn & Young Ill Kim a.s.o.,
to mention only a few, are clearly exaggerated
examples} ...


Usually the megalomaniac,
whether insane or nominally sane,
is the product of some excessive
humiliation.


Napoleon suffered at school
from inferiority to his schoolfellows,
who were rich aristo{c}{r}ats, while HE was
a penurious scholarship boy.


When he allowed
the return of the emigres,
he had the satisfaction
of seeing his former schoolfellows
bowing down before HIM.


What bliss!


YET it led to the wish to obtain
a similar satisfaction at the expense of the Csar,
and THIS led to
Saint Helena.


Since no man
can be omnipotent,
a life dominated wholly by love of power can hardly fail,
sooner or later, to meet with obstacles that cannot be
overcome?!


The knowledge
that this is so
can be prevented from obtruding on consciousness
only by some form of lunacy,
though if a man is sufficiently great
he can imprison or execute those
who point this out to him
{or her?}!


Repressions
in the political and in the psychoanalytic senses
thus go hand
in hand.


And WHEREVER
psychoanalytic repression
in any marked form takes place,
there is NO genuine
happiness.


Power
kept within its proper bounds
may add greatly to happiness,
but as the SOLE end of life it leads to disaster,
inwardly if not
outwardly.


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THE
psychological causes of unhappiness,
it is clear by now, are MANY
& various?


But ALL
have something in common:
the typical unhappy man is one who,
having been deprived in youth
of some normal satisfaction,
has come to value this one kind of satisfaction
MORE than
any other,
and has therefore given
to his life
a one-sided direction,
together with a quite undue emphasis
upon the achievement as opposed
to the activities connected
with it.


There is, however,
a further development which is very common
in the present day {any 'idiot'
can become a
millionair?}!


A man may feel
so completely thwarted that he seeks
no form of satisfaction,
but only distraction
and oblivion.


He then
becomes a devotee
of 'pleasure.'


That is to say,
he seeks to make life bearable
by becoming less active.


DRUNKENNESS,
for example, is temporary suicide:
the happiness that it brings
is merely negative,
a momentary cessation of unhappiness
{like depression and drugaddiction,
boulimia & overeating, anorexia & 'fasting'
or dieulax,
bi-polar tendencies & several kinds of
{genetic/social?}
psychosis?} ...


The NARCISSIST
and the MEGALOMANIAC
believe that happiness is possible,
though they may adopt mistaken means
of achieving it;
but the man who seeks
intoxication,
in WHATEVER form,
has actually given up hope
except in
oblivion.


In HIS case,
the FIRST thing to be done is to persuade him
that IS desirable.


Men who are unhappy,
like men who sleep badly,
are always proud
of the fact.


Perhaps
their pride is like that
of the fox who had lost its tail;
if so, the way to cure it is to point out to them
HOW they can grow
a new tail?


Very few men,
I believe, will deliberately choose unhappiness
IF they see a way of
being happy.


I do not deny
that such people might exist,
but they are not sufficiently numerous
to be important?


I shall therefore
go on assuming that the average myDi/LJ-reader and
-writer would rather be happy
than unhappy!


Whether we can help
each other to realize this wish, I do not know;
but at any rate the ATTEMPT to help one another
can do no harm.

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