Hate is a contagion. In the course of our daily drama we encounter many opportunities to spread this contagion. At moments of weakness all of us feel the temptation to hate; even to plot the extension of hatred: malice.
Hate is the handmaiden of fear. Fear has always driven us to action. Fear is the prime mover of human activity. Fear is the root of chaos and conflict. As we strip away the layers of disguise, the handmaiden is exposed. We hate because we fear. As the comfort of civilization and population compression artificially transforms hunter-gatherer fear into societal anxiety, human evolution accelerates our adaptation to fear response. What then, is this adaptation?
Since Prehuman herds roamed the earth, chaos conflict and danger has resulted in fight-flight fear response. Fear stimulated action in
response to danger, confusion, conflict. There was no malice. Prehuman did not hate the speartooth. He simply reacted to the danger of the moment. However, as ego evolved and consciousness began to turn in on itself, Human 1.0 (44&2) was achieved. This so called elevation also brought with it the adapted response to fear: hate.
Now action was no longer just the reaction to danger: Conflict – Danger – Fear – Action; the new man evolved to feel hate towards situations and icons that created fear. Now choice has entered the equation: Conflict – Danger – Fear – (Hate – Action). Gradually other factors were replaced as well: Conflict – Fear – Hate – Action.
Finally as the pampered man grew bored, the need to dominate grew strong and conflict was introduced artificially as a tool to motivate action (see Hegel). Although this need to rule others could in itself be called a reaction to fear (I will either be the slave or the master) the use of this tool grew among the masculine domination culture. Once adaptation had been reached and one subset of population learned to control the rest through dialectic motivation the rest is as we say, history.
Yes, the inquisition, the burnings, the destruction and brutal repression of the female was perhaps the most historically obvious manifestation of this evolution. But man hates what he fears, does he not? Behind it all is the glory of the Goddess. The vessel who stores the rain and brings to life all we see. And faced with this we must strengthen ourselves to avoid hate and its re-action: malice.
“Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.” – Buddha
So our power must be put to accept hatred and return love. Unconditional love. Infinite and unchanging love allows us to draw closer to what we are becoming. If animal reactions are abandoned then we must also strive to not replace them with (pardon me) man-made reactions.
If life as observer, life in the now, life at the center, and life as a projection of love is your only response to hate, fear, conflict, and chaos then you cannot be manipulated into hate or malice. This renders the ordo ab chao paradigm useless. For in truth, order does not come from chaos.
Dominatos ab chao.
If you know no hatred you will always be free.
