The difference between conscious awareness of the dualistic nature of truth and its relationship to equanimity vs the emotionally distressed state ……

that appears inevitably as a consequence when such knowledge is replaced instead by biased one sided assumptions of what real wisdom is. While this lack of insight into the nature of opposites lies at the root of most human maladaptive behaviors, of relevance here is the nature of how this ignorance manifests politically as the phenomenon known as partisanship. What this all comes down to is the ignorance known as fear, fear the other’s truth will prevail over one’s own preferred delusional state, that one kind of ignorance conditionally ascribed to by one’s personal history will be eclipsed by the so called recognizable error of the other however far fetched. Politics is a battle between preferred conditionings, between extreme and mild, between various degrees of attachment to or ego identification with some partisan position and the logical vs emotional nature of the degree of the satisfaction and comfort such attachment confers. At heart is the degree to which conscious... Read more