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The Thing Who is About to Become President:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/570519936439102/permalink/763498583807902/Lori Fryd
17 mins · Milford, PA
The Thing Who is About to Become President:
Just because something has a head, two arms, two legs, a recognizable variety of internal organs and walks erect doesn't automatically define it as human.
Something essential is missing in the thing who is about to become president and - as I struggle to define it - it is the thing that separates human beings from certain other forms of life.
Those of us who have that thing intuitively sense what's missing in Donald Trump, but it's very hard to describe - and that is why we are so often left floundering as we try to explain our gut-wrenching sense of dread.
Quite simply, something is wrong, something is lacking. We keep listening for it, waiting for it to appear, praying to discover it - but it's just not there. On the most basic, visceral level possible, we know that there is a blank, blind, black and utterly vacant spot in Donald Trump where something else should be residing.
What is it? What's missing?
It is the ability the rest of us have to stop, to pause and to reflect upon the consequences of our words and our actions.
It is that drive in most of us which compels us to monitor ourselves and to make sure that we are living up to an innate sense of decency.
It is that thing most human beings possess which allows us to use parts of our brains which have evolved beyond thoughtless hair trigger responses and reptilian impulses.
What's missing is the capacity for monitoring and controlling of one's self because most of us strive towards graciousness and civility.
What's missing is the aptitude for thought, reflection, understanding, compassion and simply wanting to do the good and the right thing in this world because doing what is good and right FEELS good and right.
What's missing is the uniquely human ability to learn from one's mistakes, to evolve, to advance and to develop, over time, a thing which is akin to wisdom.
Those of us who reflexively shudder when we see the thing who is about to become president are reacting instinctively to a palpable threat which our evolution has carefully instilled in us to assist in our survival. It is the threat we sense from all predators with no conscience, remorse or humanity. Every cell of our bodies, every nerve ending in our beings scream to us that creatures like this are dangerous. We intuitively understand that such life forms are not like us. They do not have the same controls. They are lower on the evolutionary scale and they will destroy.
The thing who is about to be president is like a crocodile - a creature running solely on survival mode, a kill-or-be-killed product of stalled evolution who never grew into becoming fully functional, fully conscious, fully caring, fully human.
He has no innate mechanism for guilt or remorse to temper his cruelty or reasonably guide his judgment. He wears a flimsy mask of civility which all too easily slips, revealing the devastating limitations of his true nature.
He may walk and talk and breathe and have a certain DNA configuration that technically defines him as a human being but there are better, finer and nobler traits which most people develop and which qualify them as human in the highest sense of the word.
The thing who is about to become president never got there.
Just because something has a head, two arms, two legs, a recognizable variety of internal organs and walks erect doesn't automatically define it as human.
Something essential is missing in the thing who is about to become president and - as I struggle to define it - it is the thing that separates human beings from certain other forms of life.
Those of us who have that thing intuitively sense what's missing in Donald Trump, but it's very hard to describe - and that is why we are so often left floundering as we try to explain our gut-wrenching sense of dread.
Quite simply, something is wrong, something is lacking. We keep listening for it, waiting for it to appear, praying to discover it - but it's just not there. On the most basic, visceral level possible, we know that there is a blank, blind, black and utterly vacant spot in Donald Trump where something else should be residing.
What is it? What's missing?
It is the ability the rest of us have to stop, to pause and to reflect upon the consequences of our words and our actions.
It is that drive in most of us which compels us to monitor ourselves and to make sure that we are living up to an innate sense of decency.
It is that thing most human beings possess which allows us to use parts of our brains which have evolved beyond thoughtless hair trigger responses and reptilian impulses.
What's missing is the capacity for monitoring and controlling of one's self because most of us strive towards graciousness and civility.
What's missing is the aptitude for thought, reflection, understanding, compassion and simply wanting to do the good and the right thing in this world because doing what is good and right FEELS good and right.
What's missing is the uniquely human ability to learn from one's mistakes, to evolve, to advance and to develop, over time, a thing which is akin to wisdom.
Those of us who reflexively shudder when we see the thing who is about to become president are reacting instinctively to a palpable threat which our evolution has carefully instilled in us to assist in our survival. It is the threat we sense from all predators with no conscience, remorse or humanity. Every cell of our bodies, every nerve ending in our beings scream to us that creatures like this are dangerous. We intuitively understand that such life forms are not like us. They do not have the same controls. They are lower on the evolutionary scale and they will destroy.
The thing who is about to be president is like a crocodile - a creature running solely on survival mode, a kill-or-be-killed product of stalled evolution who never grew into becoming fully functional, fully conscious, fully caring, fully human.
He has no innate mechanism for guilt or remorse to temper his cruelty or reasonably guide his judgment. He wears a flimsy mask of civility which all too easily slips, revealing the devastating limitations of his true nature.
He may walk and talk and breathe and have a certain DNA configuration that technically defines him as a human being but there are better, finer and nobler traits which most people develop and which qualify them as human in the highest sense of the word.
The thing who is about to become president never got there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/this-is-what-happens-when-donald-trump-attacks-a-private-citizen-on-twitter/2016/12/08/a1380ece-bd62-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.fb365ab9219b
This is what happens when Donald Trump attacks a private citizen on Twitter
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