In Defense of Sincere Egoism

All right, you people. Pretty Lady is Fed Up. Extreme times call for extreme actions, and Pretty Lady is no coward. Prepare yourselves. Pretty Lady is going to defend Hillary Clinton.

For she finds it absolutely absurd that so many of you should be propounding the notion that Hillary's notorious 'choking up' incident was mere Political Manipulation; crocodile tears, as it were. The implication of this position, as you very well know, is that Mrs. Clinton has no actual, human emotions at all, but is simply a power-hungry automaton, with ironclad calculation and control over her every word and gesture.

Good heavens, people. Get a clue.

For it seems to Pretty Lady that a simply enormous number of people are willing to push an infinite number of their fellow human beings over the cliff of Non-Humanity, simply on the basis of an ideological disagreement or two. They attribute the most deliberately scurrilous of motives to others on the basis of exactly no thought at all; the notion that Human Beings are, largely, Human, never seems to have occurred to them.

This gives them, of course, a built-in excuse for all their OWN lapses in perfect judgment, rationality and consistency, since THEY are, in their own estimation, Human; but those Others out there are, patently, Not. And so they must be judged and condemned by the standards one would apply to a hopelessly outdated computer program--trashed, in other words.

So let Pretty Lady set you straight. Hillary Clinton is all too Human, in her words, actions, thoughts and feelings. She is a sincere egoist; she is power-hungry, self-righteous, controlling, manipulative, and lacking in self-awareness. Her emotions at the prospect of being denied the prize her ego demands as its birthright are all too real; Pretty Lady has no doubt that her 'choking up' was quite genuine. The very definition of the ego is that it rails bitterly against any hint that its wishes are not sovereign.

This sincerity does not, of course, mean that the ego should have its way, in any circumstance.

For Pretty Lady feels that she has failed, verily, in pointing out what the ego actually is. The ego, darlings, is the source of all misery. It is the perception that one's individual identity is separate from, and in competition with, all other manifestations of consciousness everywhere. It is the source of war, poverty, cruelty and suffering; it is at the root of Death itself. It is the true enemy; all other apparent enemies are but projected shadows of its malignance.

So for all of you out there who yet maintain that Hillary is insincere in her egoistic emotions, Pretty Lady tells you: she is as sincere as you are, when you state that Others must be blamed, so that You may be innocent. She desires as potently to be Right, that others may be Wrong, as you do. She is fully Human; her flaws are your own.