The failure to maintain basic respect for life explains the moral-spiritual decline in modern times. It was a destructive tendency that man strayed into since the very beginning, misperceiving and misinterpreting the realities of life.
To distort and to contort our perception means “to bring things out of their original appearance and meaning for selfish objectives.” Those who want to gain control of their followers’ minds do so for selfish reasons. But gaining control of other people’s mind only makes one the master and the followers the slaves. That is a human rights violation called “subjugation,” which presumptuous egoists have been committing. And we still have a justice system that fails to correct our established systems.
The problem with leadership is that authority gives leaders the power to uphold their own ideas and desires to the point of abuse. Having lost their sense of truth, they are incapable of empathy and are therefore “soulless”: the power in authority inebriates them to senselessness and destructiveness.
Indeed, it is the deceitful ego in the mind that makes us commit mistakes in our living. The fanaticism of clinging to obsolete ideas and beliefs in fact has made us mechanical and error-prone. Ask yourself if your mental attitude of religiosity has not made you lose your sense of spirituality and truth. That in fact makes us incapable of rising above the mental weakness and process a true change. Indeed, many will continue falling into oblivion unless they correct themselves in the little time that is left.
—ERNESTO KELLY MAGTOTO, James.julio22@gmail.com