What is psychopolitical thinking?
One thing has helped me during all my life, to understand nations as people and to understand people as nations. It helps me to stay calm when watching the news or if people treat me badly. Want one example?
You think of a person as an idiot because, say, he believes in the moon hoax. What I see is that this guy's ratio is hijacked by his wish to be special, by his wish to know the truth that is not known to the wide public. This person is probably to 99% reasonable, just his "internal leadership" is making him different to work with. Fixing the situation can be as easy as to change 1%, not 100% of him.
Now my trick comes: Just understand this guy as a nation. This means you will have to understand his ratio like a government and his feelings and emotions as "the people".
What the government is for a nation, is the ratio for a person
Another idea - have you ever made a new year's resolution? Let's say you want to loose 5 pounds of weight, ok? You resolve this (with your ratio) and some weeks later you feel like starving. Now, your ratio fights against your feelings. And this is very well comparable with a political context where a nation (the government) decides to do good things. Let's imagine these politicians decide to ban all cars from the country in order to be more eco-friendly. This highly moral decision will just be swiped away by the people. And the reason is that the government cannot rule against the people because - it is part of them. Even politicians need to eat bread, and in order to produce this, people needs cars. So in the end, the people give their government a reality check and cars will not be banned from the country.
Do you see the parallels of your body needing energy and revolting against your brain when you decide too much weight? Also your brain needs energy...
An animal (like a human) can exist without a ratio, but ratio cannot exist outside without a host.
Now, I know many people who say that their ratio is their good part (because it does "good" decisions like loosing weight and then falls prey to the "bad" "flesh"). But in my opinion, the opposite is true. As I said, an animal (like a human) can exist without ratio, but ratio needs a host. However, it is always a good thing to have a ratio, right?
Wrong. When in 2006 there was a Tsunami in Southeast Asia, thousands of people died because they got tossed away into the open sea. Do you know how many animals died? Not one. They had all escaped to a higher terrain. No, I can very well imagine what happened here. There was a "feeling" for all living beings that they need to escape the beach. Now, if you are a human and have a ratio, what will happen? You will ask yourself something like "I paid 1000 bucks for this vacation, why should I go away from the beach?". This question will come from your ratio and overrule your feeling. And cost your life. Animals (non-human animals, without a ratio) will just obey their feelings.
Your feeling may be right, even if they cannot express why
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