From the mind of critic: “If projection is how we win in politics, and consciousness is how we win in real life, is it any wonder politicians tell us what we want to hear? Is it a sign of how messed up our political system is, that politicians hold one set of beliefs, but feel feel they have to publicize a different set of beliefs for fear of being rejected? Or is it a sign of how messed up our real life is, that we hold one set of beliefs, but display a different set for fear of being rejected? I had a political science teacher tell me way back, that the way the system is structured, there’s no way somebody could make it to a senior position without being a little crooked. Is it the same with life? Since our poltical system doesn’t make us, we make our political system, do we feel like we have to be crooked to succeed in life? Once we realize that listening to ourselves, and being honest with our thoughts and feelings, is how we can get over generationally ingrained issues, we’ll see projection dissappear because it’s simply seen as a means for covering up the truth. To fix our political system, we must fix our personal system. And to do that, we must realize that the more we tell people what they need to hear as opposed to what they want to hear, or what we think they want to hear, we’ll see that a perfect system doesn’t exist. But, if we’re trying to make our current system more authentic, we’re already halfway there. If we blame somebody else for what we’ve done, we can’t expect them to not blame us for something they’ve done. Responsibility, accountability and humanism will fix problems, as long as we start by looking in the mirror” 🙂