EOG DRIVEN

 

EGO DRIVEN

When big egos abandon reason we need to fear the unreason they’re about to unleash.

There are examples galore in the natural world of a pecking order, as in who gets to lead and who follows, who gets to eat first and the most, and who eats last; keeping claws or feet crossed, hoping that something will be left.  Anyone who follows my blogs or reads my books knows that I’m a lion fan.  They are just such majestic beasts.  The lion is often referred to as the king of the animal world; strong, fearless and a born predator.  Those who are the biggest, strongest and most determined get to lead and they will do anything to stay on top; killing rivals and if a challenger succeeds in taking over another troop and defeats its leader, he may even kill its offspring and insert his own sperm in the females to assert his dominance.  He.  There are few dominant females in the animal world, in the bigger species that is.  Bees are not exactly a threat to male dominance.  It is however on full display in the human species and when it comes to dominance it is pretty well restricted to males as aggressive, dominant females are a rare exception.  Indira, Margaret and Golda, hats off to you girls, but you’re not in the same league as the worst male offenders when it comes to starting wars and sowing the seeds of destruction.

Ego and momentum.

I am once more going out on a limb and state that the egos in our most aggressive males follow the same pattern as energy and momentum as described in my novel, Energy & Origin.  (It is available on KDP Amazon.ca) (Energy & Origin by W.M.A. Bes) (This is a novel that anyone reading my blog should purchase as it explains not only our origin, but where we are headed and why).  The way energy behaves and dissipates depends by and large on circumstance.  In nature it is affected by dozens of factors ranging from wind, sun, temperature, tides, gravity, natural events and many more.  In humans a far more direct and impactful factor impacts on how well or how poorly we act and behave.  Ego plays a huge role, especially in bad actors and it only takes a few of them to bring the house down.  Referring once more to my novel and its main premise: energy created life and life is energy.  A superior intake and use of energy predicates how well a species will do.  And now we come to the crux of this article and where I am headed with this.

I am not aware if in the animal world ego plays a big role, because I suspect evolutionary development is far more instinctive and predicated on necessary evolutionary traits and habits than the ego present in the human species, which is far more suspect for its duplicity and many fraudulent uses.  Why would human egos follow the unpredictable patterns of energy and momentum to a much greater extent than that of species in the natural world?  How does it show?  Where does it show?  And why is the impact of huge human egos much more extreme?

I am of course going to concentrate on the egos of the worst human offenders amongst us.  My ego doesn’t really account for much and if there is an impact (if there ever was), I don’t think anybody has ever noticed or paid attention to it.

Going back to the lion pride.  The big brute leading the troop gets all the attention and his pick of the ladies and the rest are followers left with specific tasks and orders, basically relegated to do the heavy lifting, rearing and providing.  There are distinct correlations between the natural world and how humans act and behave.  Further proof that the apple (ape) doesn’t fall far from the tree and that our descent hails from natural selection and not divine interference.

You only need to follow history and without fail all its pages are filled with the anecdotal tales of the puffed up male egos that have raged across the continents sowing the seeds of death and destruction.  Nearly all of the recorded incidents follow the logical path of energy and momentum, a lot of negative energy bundling with such intensity that is ends in a huge eruption of violence until it gradually dissipates.  Rare are the stories of leaders stepping back from the brink of disaster and deciding to make peace, rather than war.  If it did happen it was usually because they either ran out of money or bad weather cancelled their invasion plans. 

Politicians start wars with words and the masses end up fighting them with bullets.

Canadian author, Margaret Macmillan, wrote a marvelous novel titled—Paris, 1919.  It is about the peace conference that took place in Paris in the aftermath of World War I.  She alluded several times in her novel that all attempts at diplomacy failed to prevent war and how it utterly failed to prevent the next one.  Once human egos are ruffled like the proverbial feathers it only intensifies the rhetoric that flows from their mouths.  In other words, none step back.  Diplomatic efforts fall on deaf ears and the belligerents don’t know how to step back without losing face.  Admitting defeat is not in the ego cards.  Big egos don’t tolerate failure.   A loss of dominance.  Of power and control.  Egos get in the way of prudence and taking responsibility for words and actions.  Once egos lose control of a situation all hell will break lose and gives credence to the saying: Hell is empty because all the devils are here.

Yes, the devils are alive and well and living amongst us.

Israel’s retaliation after Hamas infiltrated and killed hundreds of innocent civilians and held hundreds more hostage is an indication of a nation reacting with an intensity that borders on the insane.  Gaza nearly bombed into oblivion with incessant bombing raids and Hamas unable to respond in kind because they simply lack the ability.  The negative energy unleashed will have consequences for decades to come.  Putin’s relentless attacks on Ukraine is another example of an ego gone rogue and spinning out of control.  Although many more factors come into play, it is Putin’s supersized ego that is running the show.  In all of modern recent history I can’t think of two individuals who have done more damage in the past few years than Putin and Trump.  There is no rhyme or reason as to their actions and levels of aggression.  Both have oversized egos that lack a moral compass and any kind of empathy.  Casualties mean nothing to those two.  Power has become an obsession for them.  What they have set in motion has to run its course.  Negative energy bundling in intensity and when it finally explodes we can only fear the worst.

World War I was basically started by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany.  Eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria and cousin to the King of England and the Tsar of Russia.  For a Prussian born child destined to take over the crown from his father and born with a limp left arm due to complications at childbirth it helped create an unstable individual.  From the onset he was basically saddled with an inferiority complex that haunted him his entire life.  He could never be the soldier he wanted to be and live up to the image of his warrior ancestors.  Instead he responded by abusing his absolute, autocratic power and bullied everyone around him.  The army loved him because he loved to strut around in uniforms bedecked with medals.  He was obsessed with military might as it made up for his physical shortcomings.  While he was Kaiser the army build up its arsenal to astounding levels and history once more tells us that you don’t make huge investments in your military unless you’re getting ready to use that power.  Willing to attack.  Willing to declare war. 

Look at the trillions of dollars the US has spent and is spending on the most impressive and destructive military hardware ever designed and deployed.  When it comes to the military and intent certain axioms come into play.

1-    You either use it or lose it!

2-    You don’t escalate investments into the military and military readiness without going to war and using all that impressive hardware.  (Trial runs with isolated actions such as in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela serve to verify lethality and effectiveness).

3-    How do you justify such a huge expense of public tax dollars if it has little or no other purpose than to serve as a deterrent?

4-    You can’t justify a huge expenditure in military spending unless you’re preparing for war.

5-    The momentum put into motion by big egos hell-bent on provoking conflict will eventually affect everything and everybody as getting ready for war includes massaging the egos of the masses in convincing them of imminent threats to their safety and security.  (Unless I get Greenland and Canada we can’t protect ourselves from a northern invasion by Russia and China)  (Hello, if I wanted to invade either nation I would go straight to their harbors and I would invade Canada by going into Halifax or Vancouver and not through the frozen North).

Big egos thrive on confrontation.

We need to pay attention when big egos are actively undermining global rules of engagement, using threats and punitive actions to advance their agendas; declarations of intent to territorial acquisitions and aggressively pursuing energy and resources from nations under their sphere of influence.  And when they use bullying tactics to get what they want it quickly leads to an abandoning of any attempt at normalcy, of common sense, reason and adhering to the rule of law.  All pretense of meaningful negotiations are abandoned.  They are counting on any opposition to crumble.  Crank up the threats, allude to occupation and invasion.  Find convenient scapegoats, within a nation and outside.  Raise the levels of fear and paranoia to such an extent that the masses will fall in line and comply.  They will sign up by the tens of thousands and die by the tens of thousands, by the million.  And in this day and age it will be billions!

Once big egos start to push the war button they are literally backing themselves into a corner of no return.  Can you imagine either Putin or Trump apologizing for their erratic actions and inappropriate behaviors?  They are totally delusional when it comes to their power and how far they’re willing to go to exercise it.

Whether at Davos or G7 meetings, it is obvious that none of the sane world leaders have a clue how to deal with Trump and Putin.  Both of these men defy the norm, of what they’re used to dealing with.  Diplomacy, respectful meetings, recognizing the sovereignty of nations and that you don’t break agreements and memberships in global organizations and treaties whenever you feel like it.  Thumb your nose at international law.  Insult neighbors and allies.  Strut around like an imperial Roman emperor.  In order for global affairs to run smoothly you need solid anchors, leaders that are willing to recognize the challenges and limitations and that one needs to negotiate in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

After World War II, the then US Secretary of State, George C. Marshall, recognized that the mistakes made after World War I could not be repeated.  At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 hefty penalties were levied on Germany.  The reparation payments were huge and crippled Germany’s efforts to rebuild its economy and as French general Ferdinand Foche prophetically announced towards the end of the conference, “This is not peace.  It’s an armistice for 20 years.”  And how correct he was.  Within two decades the world was once more engulfed in war.

Big egos on either side of the fence are capable of making serious errors in judgement.  The urge to retaliate is strong.  Big egos put into motion the same laws of physics that impact on energy and momentum.  Crank up the intensity and the energy release will be profound.  In physics some elements work very well together and others cause explosive results when combined.  Our world can be a place of wonder and prosperity, of peace and harmony.  However, there is not enough room in this article to describe all the sources of negative energy emanating from the thousands of activities our species is involved in on a daily basis.  It is never just one thing.  It is a gradual bundling of a lot of factors spinning out of control.  Big, nasty egos ride to the fore when the masses become restless and it is so easy to take advantage of an ugly mood souring the mood of nations.  Once the wrong people are in charge it becomes increasingly difficult to undo what has been set in motion.

Empires in trouble rarely go away quietly.  Success can go to your head!  Most empires have an awesome an impressive initial start and they usually implode at the apex of their power and even big egos discover to their chagrin that even their massive egos will not sustain the inevitable.

Leading the pack of negatives are debt, deficits and unsustainable budgets, loss of income and prices spiraling out of control, job losses and economic pressures and stagnation.  Those are the biggies.  Throw into this mix cultural and social issues and the fuse that leads to the powder keg is begging to be lit.

Energy, whether positive or negative, is never constant and predictable, neither is it one-dimensional or one-directional.  This is reflected in the erratic behavior of energy and momentum and it also explains the see-saw nature of civilizations and their rise and fall.  It never follows predictable patterns.  There are common denominators, but that’s all.  Both the US and Russia are struggling at this point in time because they have reached their apex and they are impacted by circumstances over which they have little or no control.

It is obvious that both nations are going for the full monte and are headed for a massive global confrontation that will drag the rest of the world down with them.  Big egos will prevent a peaceful dissolution from taking place and when it comes to last minute miracles and happy endings, I’m not a big believer nor a fan.  Why do we go along with these charades?  We’re not only creatures created by energy and dependent on energy, we’re incessantly driven along by energy and momentum and this force is unstoppable and it has no conscious or a soul.  As far as falling for big egos and their big lies; we’re only human and people believe what they want to believe.  Beginning with their own lies.

Isn’t it sad though that it only takes a few, nasty big egos to set the world on fire!

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