I have
previously touched upon the similarity between pragmatic transcenders and
sociopaths, both in the eyes of others but also from a transcender point of
view and as I stated, there are many similarities, see Sociopaths, Pragmatics and the Power of Love. Dexter came out during a time in my life when I was very busy
finding myself and a part of this was exploring my own dark side, something
Dexter of course does constantly. This was spawned by the fact that I felt a
scary amount of similarities with Dexter and his way of thinking. The only
difference was his psychopathy. I never, and to emphasize: NEVER, had any
inclinations to hurt anyone for my own twisted pleasure like the drives inherent
in Dexter, Hannibal and all their real-life inspirations. I have no dark
passenger like Dexter, but nevertheless I found a lot of similarities between
him and me. During my upbringing I looked at my friends and family and their dealings
and relationships with other people and I was baffled at the energy they put
into it and the emotions it brought out in them, both positive and negative.
Could they really be for real? Were they really that passionate about these
relationships? I never felt anything like this. I always took a more rational
stance. Relationships come and go. Emotions are volatile. Other micro-universes
are not that important to your own. (See The Adventures of a Lone Wolf). These truths that I only recently learned
how to articulate properly were always with me growing up. This caused a lot of
confusion which made my initial journey to enlightenment a bit difficult, which
I touched upon in previous posts, e.g. Infinite Freeway.
So when
Dexter came into my life at a time when I was still living in Denmark, trying
to fit in with the culture there and had only fleetingly encountered fellow
transcender initiates on the much larger stage which is the world, he felt very
much like a kindred spirit. This is because the sociopathic psychopath, like Dexter
and others mentioned, is in fact a twisted and warped form of transcender as
well. Sociopathic psychopaths possess many of the qualities of the transcender,
including an ability to not rely on emotions but rather a cold hard rationale. They
also look at the world in a much larger perspective than the dancers on the Dancefloor of Existence, seeing that most people are in fact slaves to their emotions and
the dictating enslaving forces like religion, society and tradition/culture,
i.e. the Trinity of Control. This makes it easy for these would-be transcenders
to not only hide among the dancers but also to seduce and manipulate them and
eventually when or if they desire, to kill or hurt them. Dexter and Hannibal do
this in almost every episode of their respective TV-shows and it was also mastered
by the real-life sociopathic psychopaths like Dennis Rader or Ted Bundy, enabling
them to escape capture for long periods by posing as perfectly normal on the
outside, avoiding suspicion by seeming completely unable to perform such heinous
acts as they did. Transcenders do the same, albeit to a much lesser degree, and
for completely different reasons. Nevertheless, my encounter with Dexter helped
me gain enough perspective to start my ongoing journey to transcendence so
exploring your dark side might not be a bad idea. Just be careful how deep you
go. Stay tuned to learn more about the specific differences between transcenders
and sociopathic psychopaths and where to draw the distinction.
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