First off, to his credit, Steve did admit that he was being a little anti darkworker in this one; so I don’t feel it’s necessary to question him about that too much since he’s obviously aware of it and I suspect that’s why he included this:
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I’m not quite doing darkworkers justice here because I’m admittedly lightworker biased. From the darkworker perspective, looking out for number one is seen as a common sense lifestyle choice. The world is viewed as a competitive place, so to a darkworker the strategy of self-above-others doesn’t create much of a moral dilemma.
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Now, I thought I'd chime in as an individual who would easily be considered a “darkworker” and tell you my thoughts about this latest post. Basically, I don’t see the human race as a “body” (as Steve put it), but as a group of the individual organisms. Social organisms to be sure, and who do rely on each other for certain things; but individuals nonetheless. I believe that the survival of the human race depends on allowing for a certain level of Darwinism. This is not to say that my motives are any less selfish than what Steve has led you to believe. But I think that some selfishness is a natural and healthy part of human psychology. From my darkworker standpoint it all fits together; selfishness can help the individual as well as human race as a whole! Of course this world is not perfect and we, as organisms are meant to compete and struggle with one another as well as with other elements that are in our environment. This means that there will inevitably be losers and that’s just part of life. Nature has shown every indication that organisms such as us are not meant to “just all get along” or to feel unconditional warm fuzzy feelings for each other all of the time. This world works on a hierarchy system of predator and prey and too much “goodness” would surely dilute the species and ultimately lead to more and greater suffering then if we had just accepted the grim realities of life and used them to our advantage.
Without competition, ways of judging earthly superiority or inferiority (the selfish power that Steve was referring to), then everyone would be on equal terms. This may sound good and I suspect that this is an idea that many lightsworkers might find appealing. Problem is that this would lead to a fundamental lack of worldly standards and widespread worthlessness. We, as humans, should strive to be more discriminating then that. This kind of lack of competition can also be very frustrating for those who know that they could excel beyond others in certain areas if they were given a chance compete with and ultimately defeat them. There’s only one way to promote equality among naturally unequal organisms. You must suppress the strong while pumping up the weak. And, in my humble opinion,
that is not fair.
The problem is that none of this really makes sense if you believe in any type of spirituality or afterlife scenario. But from the standpoint of the person who believes that this material existence is all that there is, then this line of thinking makes perfect sense. And so you see why I would feel this way.
One funny thing that I’ve noticed is that many people in these forums seem to think that darkworkers have a tendency to side with other darkworkers (or that we would want to see a world full of darkworkers). This however, is very irrational when you consider the fact that more darkworkers would just mean greater competition for us. After all, other darkworkers are a much bigger threat than lightworkers and this would not mesh well with our selfish tendencies. Ironically, the only reason that a darkworker would want to see more darkworkers in the world would be for universally beneficial reasons. By this I mean that through the process of natural selection, having more darkworkers around could help to strengthen our species. It comes down to a question of quantity versus quality of the human race; as I believe that it may be a bit optimistic to think that we can have both.
These are just my personal thoughts on the matter and I do realize that many people in these forums may disagree with me. I just wanted to give everyone a little insight into what a darkworker might be thinking and elaborate on the points that Steve briefly touched on about us.