Our Future 'What Now?' To Come

The entirety of this article is basically a repost of thoughts I’d posted in a different online discussion forum, which includes a couple of comments interspersed within my post from others responding to it in said forum:

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"Real talk:

The actual problems we're having right now are not that Donald Trump is around.

Donald Trump has been the same asshole malignant narcissist con man rapist for decades well before he even became president.

The problem is...

we have a population of people who have sort of... become him… embodied as a large, singular, psychologically dysfunctional, angry conglomerate mass of humans.

This... is the real nature of what's wrong right now.

And although Trump may be going away in the not too distant future... what are we going to do about all several psychologically frothed up millions... of them? This, the real problem all along? The one feeding this troubled, and twisted social climate in our country? Affecting our lives? Being a part of what now makes up a significant thrust within our society, a part of this social climate we now have, whereas before, such types, such social climates... were relegated to the fringe of society? Because the fact that they do make up this significant part of our society now, is what the problem *is* *now*.

So again.... what are we going to do about all of these tormented angry people dysfunctionally enabled through a passionately misguided cause? This conglomerate human mass of irrational fervent hate that's become a near self-sustaining significant trait running a branched networking streak through so much of American society? One from which is sourced the true problem that we do have, have been having all along, and seemingly will continue to have... when Trump is long gone.

Because Donald Trump has been here for much longer than has this problem that we actually have now, unique from his near 80 years of existence. And now, true, yes, thanks to him, malignant narcissism has become its own full, cohesive subculture/movement galvanized in a new codified tradition of pointing the finger at everyone else but their red-capped selves, to serve as the supposedly responsible party/focal point for their irrationally maintained self-contorted grievances. What that does to the larger society within which it continues to seethe, fester, and act out… orange leader or no... How do we solve that? What do we do with all of them in all of what they convey? How do we fix this small emotionally poisoned nation within our own?

I posit that until everything we're trying to resolve has this effort effectively rooted in, and sprouting from resolving this issue exclusively, resolving this movement, this... cult... of them.... we're merely looking at the logo for, but not truly talking about the actual beating heart of... the actual force that aims to bring about everything going down further in flames... because of what they've now collectively become... as one. Continually setting matches alight everywhere within our social fabric of functionality.

We've yet to figure out, yet to talk much about this, its being our actual problem... that we have to figure out what to do with what they've become. Because until we do start to troubleshoot the impact of and resolution for this presence that they are, with every cognitive resource we have... We've yet to even start to troubleshoot the actual problem that our country is steeped in… right now. There's a tsunami of toxic galvanized psychology, soon to have no figurehead, yet not soon to disappear on its own.

Perhaps everyone in the country needs to start talking about how to solve this, being the real problem we've actually been having all along. This problem.

Calling out to Dr. Bandy Lee (@BandyXLee1)...

I suspect we need your guidance, and that of those equally qualified and dialed into your grasp of this social problem that we have… and we need to start drawing up extensive solutions and plans to address and seriously resolve this human torrent socially churning without the capacity for reason, self-awareness, or ethical self-tempering... and we need to start this planning... exactly right now. Because an avalanche continues to further destroy... after its initial trigger setting it destructively down the mountain is long out of the picture, this trigger having already done its part.

[Fellow online commenter, Peter B said]

“I'm not sure what the plan is going to be, but you better include thorazine and electrical shock treatments.”

[To which I responded…]

Whatever it is, in all seriousness, it's going to have to address the problem as what it is: division based on the wedge of a deeply present social illness. The solution is, thus, defined by its ability to lead to genuine reunification. Without this ever being the result... it's truly over as of now. Because it is the current lack of unification borne of this social illness that is literally the problem now. Although drugs and the threat of shock treatments probably won't do anything but sow further division by serving as social gasoline on this fire that's burning right now, I do think psychiatrists and mental health professionals need to be recruited right now to begin to vigorously work as agents of social healing and repair. Agents fully immersed in our intrinsic nationwide legislative approach. Because without this... solving the problem of the source of this poisonous division... will remain a solution as yet to actually ever begin.

Fingers crossed we do this right. But more importantly, fingers crossed we actually recognize that this is the nature of what needs to be done, so that we actually even try to do things right in the first place. Rather than trying to do something that has nothing to do with this actual problem. Which is all too often, the occurrence with societal responses to societal problems.

We need to do this.

We can do this.

We have the resources.

We just need to identify the detailed mechanics in the reason for the use of these resources, and the nature by which they need to be deployed. With our further ramping up to forming, then deploying this plan beginning right now.

[Fellow online commenter, Alicia P said]

“Friedrich Recht described an unnatural beast force overtaking Germany when the Nazis came to power. Grievance. Scapegoating. Debt. War. Anomie pushing us towards more sociopathy and killing our empathy. A system in decline will devour itself.”

[To which I responded…]

This seems to ring true. I've often said the problem with not only immorality, deceit in general, and specifically the movement behind Trump, is that it's architecture is unsustainable. It requires more and more of what it, by its very nature of consumption, has less and less to draw from. It's own members, chewed up spit out, ETTD.

Still, the death of a movement doesn't necessarily mean the death of its participants, nor should it have to. There will be survivors. We hope there are as many survivors of this abusive manipulation as possible. And ye… where will that associated rage have gone? Where will that taught need to scapegoat be redirected from within these survivors? Like a bunch of undetonated emotional landmines peppering our social landscape. And all of whom are still aware of each other. And in addition, those other separate malignantly opportunistic individuals amongst this landscape perhaps tempted to cull the detonation triggers within these survivors together, to be detonated for this new opportunist’s new cause of ill. This driving sickness of emotional/social sadism towards other human beings spawned and unleashed in this movement shouldn't naively be expected to just passively go away on its own. It's networked into families and communities. It's made it into their souls. And as long as these souls exist, it must be reconciled in one way or another, else it simply metastasize through the various different internal organs of an otherwise functional society

There are two systems in play:

One destined to the fate written by anomie. Collapse. Erosion. Societal destitution and self-destruction.

The other destined to rebuild, but not without the leftover inhabitants of the other system having been spit out.

Planning for what is to be done about them, how to reintegrate them, how to extract the now deeply-embedded-in-their-psyche mind virus of sociopathy... that's where we need the deployment of mental health professionals in full, ready with compassion, insight, and robust empathetic brute force psychological strategy to really heal the nature of what this damage actually will leave us with, else we're left with merely an intermission, after which another act from which those whose character wounded players will be looking for some manner of subsequent steps forward.

We can either leave them to the momentum of their previous steps towards destruction, or provide them, through a required magnanimity, with the help to usher them towards steps of rebuilding with everyone. With all of us. Healing together. With honest, comprehensively aware and intricately self-examining ways. Addressing the challenges of hurt, fear of continued threat, anger, emotional devastation, all of it. And all of which we *must do together*.

Because we're all here.

And where we go from here, carries all of us."

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