Understanding evil, strife, pain, perfect irrationality and ruthless psychopathy is much easier and forgivable when we think of the roles of agonists and antagonists. How long does it take one hand to wash itself without the antagonist of the other hand or wiping the hand on something? Only the antagonist makes the feat possible. If the ideal shows perfect holism and rationalism then it takes little imagination to see that the perfect
antagonist must have all of the potential to match the ideal with perfect irrationality, ruthless inhumanity, and a murderous disregard of facts, consequences, humanity, decency and even the perfect offer of the most holistic life for all of us. This might even be more the case if the ideal is so perfect as to test the credulity of the audience, in which case the perfect antagonist becomes absolutely necessary. The antagonist is, wittingly or unwittingly, the perfect enzyme, accelerant, agitant, catalyst, stress and irritant to push us toward realization even in the face of our disbelief that anything not of our own human making could truly be perfect. The unyielding pain from a perfect foe that is completely controllable through our own choice is the only effective spur to jar us awake out of mediocrity.
Our three biggest problems then are that
1) we don’t realize the holistic perfection in our being a genius machine, and
2) we don’t know the basics of health that make thriving linear and predictable in order to pursue and enjoy our genius to the fullest, and
3)we do not yet realize that our only real enemy is not people but psychopathy and its closed mind and the considerably addictive power appropriate to the role of the antagonist. The one syndrome in the world where we lose any care for the facts and consequences to ourselves and others is addiction of any kind. Only the addict will kill itself (and others) and pay no attention to the facts on the way down. Therefore it must follow that nothing addicts like psychopathy or that addiction is a perfect progressive embodiment of psychopathy. The more one is addicted the less they care. The less they care about how existence offers the precise recipe for thriving, fulfillment and the highest level of interest for all—guaranteed by the simplest recipe of self-improving practices and realizations. And misery loves company. Addicts want more addicts for strength in numbers and cooperation over conflict. They don’t care about the holistic perfect that tunes the human instrument. They don’t care that the more we disturb the pure running of the machine the more we create stress that kills us, rots us, from inside out, down where no drug or surgery can do anything more than scoop out the rot to give us a little time against the inevitable, awful, terminal disease of living and thinking wrongly. The rot is the inevitable reward for the violation. Look at how we changed our entire life experience and stress quotient in the 19th century when we realized that our symbiosis with germs was thrown off by filth in our lives, in our bodies, our cities and food. Hygiene and better food alone ridded us of nearly 100% of the deadliness of the disease killers of the ancient world, not vaccines. As if an invisible parent was waiting for us to learn how we were better off without snot on our faces—we completely changed our level of stress and well-being. Despite ourselves, we learned we were far better off if we stuck to the self-improvement written into a previously invisible ideal that had been in place seemingly forever. Wipe the snot off your face, don’t eat crap— and watch how you will completely change your life experience.
Similar to cleanliness, research shows there are five more similar “ideals” or hygienes that would probably show the same revolutionary uplift in our understanding and well-being—our ability and willingness to serve creation. This is interesting because human lifespan is now known to be 150 years. Are we only living half our lifespan because invisible stresses are killing us, and we as yet know no real benefits to truly counteract stress? Stress opens the door to germ imbalance by reducing immunity. However much we deviate from the ideal makes us “dead,” and germs simply recycle us. It is just that ruthless and efficient. Like stress, facts and psychopathy, germs are unavoidably here to guide us in how to live our best. Without them we could not learn.