No Mercy

 

I believe there is a connection between the heart-heartedness of the educated (those that are part of the ruling elite, of any nation), noted famously by Gandhi, and their proclivity to be ideologues.

 

Where the educated, and some of them hold PhDs, and are brilliantly smart, are part of an institutional hierarchy, functionaries in school, newspapers, colleges, seminaries and government, and large corporations, and they fit in, that role and the allegiance demanded by the organization may transform the educated into ideologues.

 

Ideologues are collectivist and altruist, so they do not see any individual as a living separate being. Everyone is typecast with an assigned category or group status. When we dehumanize people, we cannot empathize with them, or feel their suffering.

 

We feel no mercy, no compassion towards victims that we rule over and dehumanize. These victims are not human beings with personality, souls, and feelings. They are only things to be pushed around and attacked if recalcitrant or slow to obey.

 

We cannot love ourselves, God, or anyone else if we are ideologues because everyone is a cari

cature, not a real human being.

 

The ideologue is so self-hating and has long since relinquish his dignity and self-respect for the sake of the cause. He has shown no mercy to himself, so it cannot be expected that he will show kindness to the downtrodden. If he is educated, he is just eloquent about justifying his evil ways.