Stockholm and Helpers

 

There are two drastic Syndromes ruling Europe
in our day, and neither one is healthy,
and neither one has to do with love at all.
Not with neighborly love nor brotherly, nor universal,
nor even genuine self-respect.

These ruling Syndromes have in common
a severe deficit in self-worth and self-image,
compensated (with unavoidably catastrophic consequences)
by a gravely narcissistic, face-saving need to be seen publicly
as engaged, involved, self-sacrificing, caring – and "effective"
(even when the evidence mockingly betrays the delusion).

Driven not by love but by ego, by compensation for this self-conscious deficit.
The one Syndrome is indicated by apologism for perpetrators of terror,
the other by a sense of moralistic feel-better dominance over others.

Love is something entirely else, for love is intelligent.
Love can say no and can question. When love sees and exposes,
and calls the Trend-setters out on these two Sydromes,
Stockholm- and Helper-, and the danger they pose, there's a reaction.
Love can deal with being called hateful or phobic.

Love could care less about public appoval or compensation.
Love never compromises itself to be "on the good side" –
The two Syndromes are pathologically dependent on just that,
unconsciously sending you messages which turn your stomach
and should be setting off alarms. Wake up!

Some might say I appear to be committed,
some might say I should be committed.
I find that most arguments against my assertions
only serve to underscore my point.
I haven't any need to be "proved right," as the unfolding developments
in the near future will prove this for me.

And that does not make me happy.
That people might finally wake up, would.
Now that would be a real Christmas miracle.
And I say this out of deep love and urgent concern.