Prager Again

I watched a Prager U video by Prager this afternoon about people not being basically good. Prager does not believe that we are basically good but we can overcome our natural bent to naughtiness and nastiness by being taught to be good by our parents and authority figures in our lives. Amen, I say.

Prager defines natural evil as selfish and narcissistic, as being cruel as children, being ungrateful and ill-mannered. Again, he is 80% correct. He is an altruist, which accounts for his 20% error in thinking.

To be born evil is to be selfless, and that is the sujbective focus that makes people narcissitic. As they grow, their herding instinct will make them social and herding, and that is where their selfish, cruel, nonindividuating ways become a way of life.

Babies are born with some goodness in their heart and souls, but this primordial drive is stunted and weak, but with training and education and a personal choice to be goo--and to take parental instruction to heart--children can learn to be good adults. As good adults, they will be individuating individualists that pursue their enlightened self-interest, an unselfish, positive, obedient answering the divine summons to be a living angel, following in De's footsteps, the ultimate individualist.