Saving the World from Pretenders

By the standards set by today’s most modern societies which are arguably the most peaceful so far in human history, pretenders and their less intelligent fellow psychopaths are labeled sick and require help to fit into society. Think about ancient societies. Death and violence had a much larger role then, as such it would have been easier for pretenders to exist in plain sight. Any society that included slavery looked at slaves as lesser being, a piece of property to be treated as their master saw fit, much like pretenders look at their victims today. But back then they could pay to own slaves and legally treat them in any manner they saw fit. Now they need treatment in order to function in a peace-oriented society where hurting and killing people is no longer common and slavery is no longer legally allowed. But alongside this drive to kill and hurt, the dark passenger, the pretenders still possess the rationale of the transcender, making them more dangerous and differentiating them from other more impulsive psychopaths like Henry. These kill mainly on impulse and thus have less self-control and more likely to make mistakes leading to their capture. But common for both is the fact that their need to kill is grounded in emotions. No matter how much they try to control this drive it will always make them more vulnerable than transcenders who always move to serve the greater good without any interference from their personal emotions. But alas, nobody is perfect. Even transcenders have some inherent drives they cannot switch off. Thankfully, these drives usually lie within the confines of society’s laws, because if they did not, then the road to transcendence could potentially turn into the road to pretending. This emphasizes the disturbingly close resemblance between transcenders and pretenders, which at times is only a matter of perspective.

For who exactly is capable of judging the greater good? Can any man really make that decision? Who determines what is normal? Societies across history and even today have had and has a vastly different approach to issues such as human and animal rights, sexuality and degrees of punishment. But it is my opinion that the democracies of the western world represent the culmination of the evolution of our civilization so far. Like mentioned before, they are the legacy of transcenders of the past who used the Trinity of Control to devise laws that protected the rights of individuals against hurt and persecution and are thus currently an ideal for other less progressed countries to strive for. Here pretenders are outside society and must receive treatment in order to be fully part of it. Any society that embraces the presence of pretenders, guised in whatever legal or religious pretext they can exploit, surely belongs further down the evolutionary ladder.