Yes SER8.
You are right of course. Lately, collectively, our inner beast has well and truly escaped. A ruthless and uncivilised "Killing of the pig" a la Lord of the Flies. Is this necessarily a bad thing to be resisted and fought?
I was in London when Diana died. The extended pall which fell over the entire city, country, and even the entire Western World was something I'd never experienced before, and may not ever see again. The emotion was raw, powerful, inexplicable. The reaction overtook any rational, logical relationship to the actual event. I could logically see this at the same time as the emotions overtook my whole body and mind.
In retrospect, I learnt from the Diana experience that we are not rational beings with emotional capabilities. We are more fundamentally emotional beings with some capability for rationality.
Why do we follow Manly? Raw emotion. Not logic, not reason.
And we can't kill our painful emotions without also killing our comfortable ones. As the Finn Brothers wrote and sang:
"Finding out where there is comfort there is pain, only one step away, like four seasons in one day"
For some time now, as Silvertails, we've been in the throws of a terrifying storm, winter season in full flight. Emotions arise when threats arise. And over-reactions automatically happen. And when we survive the harshest of storms, we can look back and perhaps realise that it wasn't so bad. That we could handle the absolute worst that was thrown at us. That we didn't really need to kill the pig. That killing the pig only made matters worse.
And we get stronger through this realisation. And, perhaps, more compassionate for the harm we had unnecessarily and mindlessly inflicted on ourselves and others.