We have to reflect.
In human typologies, a figure is the "climber" no matter the sex, race, religion, nationality or time, he is always there, he can also be located as an opportunist.
They tend to be subservient, simulators, hypocrites, they do not lack talent, they are usually intelligent.
They always "get close" as in the game of bolas criollas, to someone more important or with a lot of money.They calculate everything based on their ascent, as high as possible.They are unscrupulous humans, they are capable of everything, they are great manipulators, not reliable at all.
They are in all environments and environments, even closer than we imagine in our closest circle in the family, they are nefarious people.
Learn to identify them and take care of them, the tendency to envy, betrayal and hatred is very powerful in these climbers, who tend to turn their resentments and inferiority complexes into superiority and revenge complexes.
They are beings, without morals, or principles, mean people, full of evil, although they tend to boast of having them, we have to check ourselves and know the bright side of ourselves, but also the dark side. If we embrace the shadow of the other, we embrace our own shadow.
With our denied parts we build the enemy. For the opportunist it is necessary that everything changes so that nothing changes, characteristics of politics and society to guarantee the minimum necessary order and the essential continuity, of the history that alternates with a necessary discontinuity.
Gian Battista Vico identified it with his theory of the "corsi e ricorsi", Machiavelli whom I read almost every night previously, had already made a similar observation.
Vilfredo Pareto spoke of "circulation of elites". The power groups are replaced in part and at the same time.
At some point something or someone (climbing people) can trigger a wound on us, and we lose the possibility of containing ourselves, self-regulating.
I also think that a big part of the wisdom of getting to know each other is knowing which are our good sides and our hostile, deadly, aggressive sides that all humans have.
We see in the other, what we are, "our fears".
Choosing to "not fight” does not mean giving up or letting ourselves be overwhelmed. It means, above all, choosing wisdom over violence and opting for calm before opening the floodgates, wide open, so that anxiety floods us.
If we know our capacity for aggression, inherent in our human condition, we can choose towards Eros, towards life. You, me, anyone, taking our time to recover, rematerialize and heal, is the best thing for our mental health.
Again...
Today we woke up without light, for many Venezuelans this implies reviving fears, fears, and at these moments it is easy to lose hope but, today more than ever I remember Stockdale who says: “One should never confuse the confidence that in the end you will succeed (which you can never afford to lose) with the discipline to face the most brutal facts of one's current reality, whatever it may be.”
I share with you my lechoza (papaya) tree, she is climbing the fence, I think she is an opportunist lol
Janitze 💘
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