I travel often, and meet perhaps a dozen new people every week. Yesterday, I walked into an office to do some work, and was met by a woman who was being subtly cruel to me, because she could. She seemingly felt no remorse for it. I was just looking at her, and it hit me that somebody did something to her that she never got over. There was something broken, unreal, ineffective, emotionally in her. There was a part that should have worked, but didn’t.
When you look at sadists, it is tempting to focus on the evil, the brokenness within them. Yet, and I feel I may have said this before, you can also look at the GAP between who they are, and who they could be. You can see what that person, functioning well, would look like. You can see how they would move if a strangling knot that suffocates them were to be loosened, and their lungs filled honest air. You can see who they would be if they were actually happy.
It is our task on earth to rescue everyone. No exceptions. The method is to choose this end and be effective. This heuristic is how you get as effective as you will get with broken people, many of whom will never heal in this lifetime.
“Power sickness” both admits the malady, and recognizes it as such. I’ll just have to wait and see how far I want to go with it.