Americans Must Repudiate the Connection Between a Child-Murderer, Reaganism and Trumpism

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24. Preconceptions based on past experiences

Ayn Rand suffered a childhood trauma. Her way of coping, finally, seems to have been to "embrace the monster within". But her trauma was imposed by others traumatized by Czarist Russia. On and on it goes, all the way back to our foraging days of the ancient past. Our collective "epigenesis" as a species --hard won and tragically lost, over and over again. The Great Wheel of Suffering, as Buddha might say.

Thousands of years of human carnage, cruelty, suffering and survival will not be undone so easily. We know there is enough to go around now, and it would be rational to distribute resources fairly to everyone on this planet. The only thing that holds us back is all that goddamn trauma we keep meting out to each other.

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar”

-- Thich Nhat Hanh