Hi! Today I’m bringing some answers to questions that I posed last week. I don’t think these are definitive answers, obviously, but I do think they can make you think and that’s what this newsletter is turning into. Happy Thursday!
Do evil people actually exist? Or is it just evil using actors?
The other I was listening to the Joe Rogan Experience with Tucker Carlson. It was a really nice podcast and it helped me view Tucker in different eyes. However, they did talk about evil and how it operates in this world. Tucker presented this sort of “theory”, which can be seen in the book The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (highly recommend). The theory Tucker explained is that evil people do not exist, the only thing that exists are strong and weak people. Evil takes control over the weak people making them into “bad” people. This theory is actually very hopeful (and based on religion), but it talks about the capacity people have to become “good” human beings. It also gives a glimpse into the way trauma can bring a person down and allow evil to act through them.
Where do insecurities come from? It doesn’t make sense for them to just arise.
Insecurities come from perfection. Yes, I know this might sound ridiculous, but lets take the example of someone who is always insecure about performance in their given field. This might stem from the fact they didn’t perform how they expected many times, but it can also come from parental pressure. These two roots have the same meaning: belief in the other person’s ability to perform at a high level. You can’t get mad at a person who is not capable when they perform a task imperfectly. The same way parents believe in the ability their child has, that’s why the pressure one child more than the other in many cases. Insecurities regarding looks comes from the expectation set upon you by yourself or some other person and an undesired outcome. If someone cheats on you, it’s not because of your looks, it’s based on someone else’s (obviously more things into play, but to keep it short). It’s not your fault the outcome wasn’t the one it was supposed to be, if you did everything you could.
More answers will come next week.