Reply #92: hollow and empty

[Two Americas]

These little victories - little gotchas - that people indulge themselves in are hollow and empty. Not for me - they don't affect me much - but for the person using them. They are based on the false hope that by rejecting other people and treating them as pariahs, that this will keep their own ghosts and monsters - the ones that they are struggling to keep such a tight lid on - at bay and that they will find peace this way. But it does not work, and that is why they have to be used in larger and larger doses. It is like a drug, an addiction to denial and cruelty and indifference, that promises peace but that is needed in greater and greater amounts and that distorts everything in our lives. We can see this all around us - people in the terminal stages of this addiction - frantically defending the selfish individualism and the denial of their true natures, as their lives become more and more empty and meaningless.