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Originally Posted by yossarian  How about Genghis Khan? Ruled the largest and most powerful empire to ever exist on the Earth, died at the ripe age of 80 in the loving company of his family.
Genghis Khan is the guy who, after conquering a city, would kill EVERY SINGLE MALE over 12. No exceptions.
If you look for them, there are clear examples of evil people who were successes in their own eyes and who worked consciously for the betterment of themselves and none others. IMO Genghis Khan is the greatest darkworker to exist on Earth. BTW - you know the Blitzkrieg? It was actually based on battle tactics that Genghis Khan himself invented, and then rediscovered by Guderian to use for the Nazis. |
Genghis was not in it just for himself. He was in it for his clan. A darkworker can have a sense of self that includes a group of people that makes everyone else the "others".
Just like Steve makes an analogy of people on earth being like cells of a body, we can also make a group of people be like a cell. It's the sense of self that drives where the line of "other" is and where the boundary goes.
Like if a meat eater looks at animals as something "other", there's no issue chomping on meat. But if we sense animals as self, we may not do that chomping. Or we might think animals to be a part of our selves that provides a food source. That could be. I mean, what do we think of vegies? Aren't they also part of the gaia self but we consume that part of gaia?
But then why do animals chomp each other in nature? Are animals darkworkers because of that?
Animals probably are lightworkers - they are more natural than humans. Humans are so into waste that we forget to honor the animal food like Native Americans did in the past.