
Roy Masters
Resentment changes all game plans. The consequence of being upset results in too much, or too little, force. Either extreme leads to predictable tragedy. Here again is another variation of the valiant bomber pilot’s dilemma.
Politically speaking, the inherent appeasement of parental tyrants is the motivation behind the peace movement’s embrace of tyrants. This has always brought about the very wars that pacifists want to avoid.
The sexual revolution of the ’60s bred a generation of demoralized, failing parents. The innocence of succeeding generations continued to be destroyed through the left-wing politics in the media and the education establishment, leading to violent discontent toward their country as if the nation were a stand-in parent.
Race-baiting, welfare, broken homes and absent fathers have decimated the self-worth and future of millions of young people. Many rebelled against their parents and country, whose heritage of Judeo-Christian values had become plastic and feeble.
Many transferred their loyalties to what seemed opposite and strong and supported their hostility.
Other groups formed into the gentle giant peace groups, similarly sympathetic to America’s enemies. Their representatives in Congress imposed excessive taxation to appease America’s enemies.
The contempt the world now feels toward us is not so much for our overt evils, although there is some of that. Rather, it is for the hate in our hearts that we have toward one another. Our policies sought love in all the wrong nations. The United Nations tormentors are exploiting this very weakness.
Needless war, suffering and tragedy are the same in the macrocosm as they are in the microcosm. Unconscious compensations for individual moral failings give rise to those craving delusions of worth. T
he exploitation of this spiritual pathology perpetuates the search for peace with all the wrong nations. The sovereignty of individuals is a sacred, divine safeguard to the sovereign collective of the United States. It is impossible for good to come out of anger.
As was pointed out earlier, repressed rage is double sided, and either side empowers tyranny. Most people will be tempted to take advantage, not because they are necessarily tyrants, but because you give them a perception and an appreciation of what appears to be graciousness.
"doing the right things for all the wrong reasons is always self-serving, destructive and the deadly complication of your buried hatreds"
Fear of being hurt aids and abets the false belief in your own worth. In this manner, you are complicit in manipulating others into deceiving them and then have the gall to judge them for using you. Your life’s energies are wasted.
Realize it or not, doing the right things for all the wrong reasons is always self-serving, destructive and the deadly complication of your buried hatreds. In case you missed the point, let me make this perfectly clear. Hostility is a sin and that is why there is guilt.
Hostility, being the handmaiden of judgment, separates you from your inborn sovereignty, along with its modifying influence over emotions and life’s purpose. Resentment binds you over to an existence of servitude, thinking to prevent violence only to cause more.
The violent “good” comes into play when you vent your spleen in the guise of correcting your wife and children, or going to war and killing the enemy as you might your father. Future tragedy lies ahead unless, of course, you find the truth that will set you free.
Therefore, whenever you become upset, speak up, and perhaps act out for a good cause with the wrong energy, it will always have a deleterious effect. When you are upset and sit in silent consent or judgment, that too is guilt, the sin of omission. The stage is set. The script is written for the ending.
When you are upset you can do nothing right. On the other hand, when you are calm and centered, you can do nothing wrong. If you find yourself condemned by others, it will be for your noble character, so endure it patiently.
Do not take things so personally. Fearlessly speak your mind. Take appropriate action and you shall never suffer anxiety or depression. In fact, the cure of your past and the blessings of the future lie in dealing perfectly in the present with imperfect people.
Try to imagine the silent agony of a man decorated for bravery beyond the call of duty, whose motivation was the hatred of his father.
At some point, your suffering may no longer be the fault of the world, your father, your mother or that molesting cad of a brother. Can you lift yourself up by your bootstraps? Surely you cannot?
Take heart, all is not lost. It is only the way we all go about saving ourselves that is hopeless. What profits a man if he gains the admiration of the whole world and loses his own soul?