Are You What You Claim To Represent?

Written by a human, for humans, always.

Who are you?

It seems like an easy enough question to answer...

One that we frequently give to others when we introduce ourselves...

One that we often have a prepared answer for...

But are we really that?

A problem that I see so frequently in today's world...

Is that people claim to be representatives of something...

An idea, value, belief, etc...

But they fail to actually be that thing upon inspection.

People claim to be morally superior...

While being terrible at upholding those morals themselves.

They claim to care for a specific value or belief...

While either failing to support it in any way, or worse, actively contributing to things that directly work against or harm that value or belief.

They say they want to make the world a better place...

But fail to understand how they are actually making it a worse place.

It is easy to call this being hypocritical...

But what I see is significantly worse.

Some of these individuals, it may be more accurate to call them...

Pridefully hypocritical...

While others may be closer to...

Delusionally hypocritical...

Or...

Ignorantly hypocritical.

These three are extremely common in today's world.

Many people make bold claims as to who they are and what they represent in the world...

But if you were to actually press them on how they represent that...

Or reveal to them that they have nothing that can provide evidence for their claims...

No actions or behaviors that show it to be true in any sense of reality...

These are the people who are delusionally or ignorantly hypocritical.

There is a gigantic disconnect between who they imagine themselves to be in the world...

And who they are actually being in the world.

For some of those individuals, the problem is simply that they have not really considered the "truth" of how they act in the world.

They have thought about what they want to represent...

But failed to connect it to any real behaviors in their real life...

Making them ignorantly hypocritical.

One who is ignorant often just needs to understand that this disconnect exists...

To understand that something needs to change so they can actually "be" who they want to be in the world.

It is not that they "want" to be hypocritical...

They just have not actually seen "how" they are being hypocritical.

With a bit of wisdom, most of these individuals are happy to change.

On the other hand...

Delusionally hypocritical is more challenging.

For these individuals, there is an active disconnect in the logic of who they believe they are in the world...

And what they are actually demonstrating they are in the world.

They often "think" they really are being who they want to be...

Which is what makes it difficult to reveal to them how their logic is flawed.

Often, those who are delusionally hypocritical act emotionally first...

Which is exactly how they end up getting caught in the delusion.

Emotions are very easy to hijack...

And people all around the world use and abuse individuals who are emotionally reactive...

Usually without those individuals realizing it at all.

Worse...

They become trained to react in certain ways...

To shut down their logical minds when anything "other" is even mentioned...

And frequently duped into believing that what they stand for represents who they want to be in the world...

When the reality is that what they are supporting is exactly the opposite of what they want to be representing...

They just fail to see it because they have been emotionally hijacked.

It even gets to the point of what essentially amounts to Stockholm Syndrome.

The challenge and need here is to help the individual discover the flaws in their logic...

Without triggering any emotional booby traps that circumvent the logical part of the brain.

If you can get around the emotions...

Helping this individual see the logical gaps in how they are acting in the world...

They often make changes themselves...

Sometimes because of embarrassment...

Other times because they deeply do want to represent their beliefs and are happy to discover better ways to live in alignment with the truth.

This brings us to the biggest problem, though...

Those who are pridefully hypocritical.

The challenge here...

Is that they do not want to change.

They are actually using who they represent themselves as in the world as a tool...

Or a weapon...

To achieve what they actually want.

They know they are saying one thing and doing another thing...

And it is purposeful for their own ends.

They frequently harm other individuals for the sake of getting what they want...

While justifying it the entire time.

This one is the most difficult for a couple of reasons.

It starts with the fact that they usually use ignorantly hypocritical, and delusionally hypocritical people to their advantage.

Those individuals become the tools or weapons to get what they want.

Those who are pridefully hypocritical also frequently see the people they are using as "less" than themselves...

Which is what makes it all the more justified for them to use those individuals.

They are just pawns who deserve to be sacrificed for their goals.

They are more than happy to accept support from those who are ignorant of the truth...

And they purposefully target the emotional triggers to foster a delusional reality for others.

The only thing that can change a person is for that person to have a desire to change...

Which is why the pridefully hypocritical person rarely changes...

They do not have any desire to change what they are doing and feel justified and prideful that they are doing it.

They do not believe there is anything they should change.

The only time these individuals will change is when they have a crisis of the soul or conscience...

Where they have something so completely life-altering happen...

That they begin to see how wrong their way of living actually is...

And how that way of living will never provide what they actually need in life.

Now...

The bad news is that there is little to nothing that most people can do about the pridefully hypocritical.

However...

For those who are, unknowingly, ignorantly hypocritical or delusionally hypocritical...

There is something positive to take away from knowing about the pridefully hypocritical...

They now know that the pridefully hypocritical actually exist.

What most ignorantly hypocritical and delusionally hypocritical people fail to understand...

Is just how many people are pridefully hypocritical...

And how willing those people are to use and abuse them.

But...

When the ignorant and the delusional are aware of this truth...

And are willing to actively investigate whether they are being influenced by pridefully hypocritical individuals...

They can begin to become free of the influence of the pridefully hypocritical.

The knowledge of this reality, when taken seriously, allows people to see the truth behind the pridefully hypocritical...

If...

They are willing to investigate it and question whether they could, unintentionally, be living hypocritically.

Here's the secret to it all...

You should "expect" to find that you are accidentally living hypocritically.

I know that I have.

Pridefully hypocritical people are far more common than most people realize...

And often, pridefully hypocritical people align themselves with those of similar ideology...

While setting themselves as enemies against others of different ideologies.

This is because both pridefully hypocritical people see the "other(s)" as a barrier to what they are trying to obtain...

A barrier that needs to be eliminated.

This causes the pridefully hypocritical people to set up camps, tribes, and similar groupings...

Which revolve around hating the other group...

With the goal of eliminating the other group...

While using the ignorant and delusional as tools to accomplish that end.

If you find yourself in the middle of any "us versus them"...

You are likely being influenced on one or both sides by people who are pridefully hypocritical.

There is one danger that the ignorantly hypocritical and the delusionally hypocritical need to be aware of at this point, though...

Becoming convinced that the pridefully hypocritical are actually just ignorantly or delusionally hypocritical themselves.

See...

The pridefully hypocritical actually know that there are ignorantly and delusionally hypocritical people...

They are using those individuals to their gain for that very reason...

And they also know...

That they can make themselves "appear" as if they were ignorant or delusional about this reality...

Which they will conveniently do when they are caught.

This is a self-preservation tactic of the pridefully hypocritical individual...

And it works...

Very frequently.

I wrote about this two days ago, and this is how Institutionally Abusive Relationships develop.

The thing is...

Those who are ignorant or delusional "want" to believe that the pridefully hypocritical person was also ignorant or delusional...

That the pridefully hypocritical person also wants to become a better human being...

But what the pridefully hypocritical person will end up proving through their behavior...

Is that they have no real desire to change...

And they prove this by engaging in abusive behavior they unleash upon the ignorant and delusional who do not want to believe they are hypocritical.

That is the mental loop that needs to be overcome, though...

The desire to "believe" that we are not subject to being ignorant or living in a delusion we are unaware of.

That is why making the assumption that you are ignorant or delusional in some respect without realizing it becomes powerful.

When you assume this...

It forces you to question who you actually want to be...

How you are living it or failing to live it...

Not in theory, but in literal reality...

And it allows you to question everyone you are following...

Pushing you to not just pay attention to what they are saying, but actually investigate what they are doing.

See...

The pridefully hypocritical person reveals who they actually are and want to continue being not through their words, but through what they continuously do.

They can be seen playing with emotions purposefully...

Fueling emotional outrage...

Pushing people to ignore or miss logical conclusions.

They can be caught and seen claiming ignorance or delusion...

But returning to the same behaviors again and again...

Because they have no desire to actually change...

It is a facade...

And that realization and investigation are how the ignorant and delusional become free from remaining hypocritical.

The assumption of ignorance or delusion is the key to becoming free from those who would use and abuse you purposefully.

It forces you to seek the truth and to stop acting from an emotional place to see the logical reality around us.

When we realize that we are absolutely subject to fault...

And we have a desire to change...

We gain the power to discover where change is needed in our lives...

So that we can stop living hypocritically...

And start becoming a true exemplar of the beliefs and values we want to uphold in the world.

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