A person afraid to look into the mirror, into the heart of darkness within, into their current self, will not look at their own wrongs or falsity first. They will focuses on anyone else -- the others -- with no concern for self-work or inner-work.
Many of the ways of living we continue to engage in are built on ignorance of harm we create ourselves as a whole (collective), self-created harm towards others and even to ourselves. The ignorance of what we ourselves are doing as a society is the reason for harm to continue to be created in the aggregate. We are all feeding a beast of a system and most people don't see it.
People can't honestly look at their behavior and expressions of consciousness that generate such behavior. They are too attached to themselves and others, including beliefs that are bought into as reality. We can't stand against what we do because we don't see ourselves honestly in the mirror.
Many people don't want to look at the falsity they are attached to, or the beliefs they are attached to either. They want to remain attached to these beliefs as some known certainty, as if it's actual reality and truth, even though it is simply a belief.
People are not delineating between possibilities, probabilities and actualities in reality that can be known, and this keeps them trapped in the mind's thoughts of speculative imaginations, of phantasms and fantasy.
Some people think they are "free" from what they negatively view as "mind" or "thought" prisons from actually thinking -- which is especially a part of New Age pseudo-spiritual thought. They believe feeling is more important, as if you can feel your way to truth. That thought and logic are flawed, and feeling is "pure perfection" to lead you in life.
They think of themselves as being in "pure" intuition, "pure"-knowledge from a "source" of nous-noesis-gnosis that they magically "tap" into because they are so "connected". I have lived with some. This all makes them feel so special to believe they are so "connected" to the "source", "God", etc.
Objective reality and actuality, here and now, grounding in reality, becomes an illusion for many who follow this train of thought, or anti-thought, concluding the imaginative invented beliefs as the "Absolute" and "Real" reality, that is somewhere else, and the shared reality we exist in is some illusion that they often seek to escape from.
Rather than look at the world honestly -- the negative, falsity, wrongs, immorality, evil, etc. -- and see what they are doing to support and participate in creating the world as it is, they just want to deny this is the reality that matters, and dream of being somewhere else, in some 5th dimension, in some afterlife, or whatever.
This life is only temporary in their mindsets, so what happens here doesn't matter so much, it's just an "experience". The suffering inflicted on others is just an "experience", just part of their "journey" that they are meant to learn as a reincarnated "soul" or some such belief. They are meant to "experience" that as part of some great master design. Let it all happen, don't stop it.
Don't worry about stopping the harm, violence, wrongs, immorality or evil, or figuring out if we are participating or supporting it... nah... just go with the flow, go along to get along, enjoy the ride, don't rock the boat, don't go against the grain, mind your own business, keep your head down, be tolerant and accepting of everything. After all there has to be evil for good, we gotta "balance" our good acts with evil acts in our human world. It's all part of the "great plan". No one is to blame...
Failure to see the world as it is, the light/dark, beauty/horror, right/wrong, prevents us from being aware of what we can do to make things better. It's much easier to ignore and not even want to see, or excuse what it is we do see. Why face the mirror of darkness and truth about the world or ourselves, when we can believe whatever the fuck we want and delude ourselves... :/
Thank you for your time and attention. Peace.
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