petty tyrants

[Dragon Snacks]

Don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this but....

Petty tyrants, how have you dealt with them successfully, or not so successfully?

I encountered one of my faves the other day, a policeman giving me a ticket. I got very visibly angry, called him a parasite (which is truly how I see them).

I could have employed a much better strategy, but control and forbearance went out the window.

 

[Anthony]

Well did you deserve the ticket, or was he just doing it because he's a petty
tyrant? Do you know this person? Is it possible that he was just doing his job?

 

[Tigersoap]

Hello Dragon snacks,



Perhaps you may be interested in starting reading the Wave as volume 5 is aptly subtitled petty tyrants.

Perhaps the ticket was deserved and calling the police officer names could have ended in a much worse situation for you.
To deal with petty tyrants, you must first learn on how to deal with yourself when the emotions arise.

The more you know about yourself and what may trigger you will help to avoid wasting energy in such situations but as each case is different, anger might have been the right choice. It all depends on the context and I hope you'll give us more information about the situation you were in.

Also you can read about the definition of petty tyrants here which might give you some food for thoughts.

 

[aragorn]

For how to deal with petty tyrants, I highly recommend reading "The Fire from within" by Castaneda.

Kindle edition: http://amzn.com/B00AYIDRL2

Paperback: http://amzn.com/0671732501

Also, there are many discussions on this forum about dealing with petty tyrants. Use the search function to find them. Here's one: Confronting the petty tyrant

 

[Dragon Snacks]

I suppose I "deserved" the ticket, in the sense that yes, I was speeding. In a larger sense, police are closer to being enforcers of an organized crime syndicate (government) than any sort of public servant. And we are forced to pay, via taxation, for the privilege of being fined, jailed or killed by this group of humans set apart fem everyone else, who may do so at their whim. If the cop screws up, what recourse do we have? We can't fire them, can't seek our own justice, we have to appeal to THEM to make things right.

So, no, I didn't deserve the ticket.

Read "Anatomy of the State" by Murray Rothbard. He can explain it better.

If you look a them as Don Juan would–a person or group with an inordinate amount of power over you–I'd say they qualify as a petty tyrant.

 

[Laura]

If you look a them as Don Juan would–a person or group with an inordinate amount of power over you–I'd say they qualify as a petty tyrant.

In which case you behave with External Consideration towards them to make life easier for them and for yourself and to achieve your aims. In the terms of Don Juan, you would behave subserviently to their face and gather your resources for a major maneuver at some later point in time.

 

[loreta]

The best way when they give you a ticket when you are at fault it is (for me) to give a big smile. In my interior I want to cry but anyway, a big smile to this policeman that in fact is doing his job. This smile is also a smile that I give to myself and this smile is telling me: Loreta, you drove too fast. Be careful.

 

[seek10]

Don't know if this is the appropriate forum for this but....

Petty tyrants, how have you dealt with them successfully, or not so successfully?

I encountered one of my faves the other day, a policeman giving me a ticket. I got very visibly angry, called him a parasite (which is truly how I see them).

I could have employed a much better strategy, but control and forbearance went out the window.

Often, mechanical self importance and lack of information/experience about the situation is what creates the obstacle to strategy and control.

self importance

Castaneda writes that self-importance is a needless piece of baggage that the warrior needs to get rid of simply because maintaining it is a needless expenditure of energy. There is no ethical value judgement on self-importance per se, it simply is superfluous and inefficient and works against the values of correct use of energy the warrior should aspire to. Energy will allow seeing and seeing can bring one to knowledge and freedom. Self-importance is a hindrance on the way.

 

[kenlee]

I encountered one of my faves the other day, a policeman giving me a ticket. I got very visibly angry, called him a parasite (which is truly how I see them).

I could have employed a much better strategy, but control and forbearance went out the window.

Read In Search Of The Miraculous especially what is written on the "non expression of negative emotions" and the reasons for it in everyday life (which does NOT mean suppressing them). The reasons for not expressing negative emotions in sleeping/mechanical life is that when you express them it is done so mechanically, like a reaction machine run amok. This negative state gets mechanically projected onto the outside world and in this case onto the cop. So the cop reacts mechanically and reflects this attitude back to you in some way. You react to that and project it back to him and this increases the negative potential of the situation to escalate until there's no end to it. It's all mechanical and potentially destructive.

It takes an enormous control of oneself to not express negative emotions in mechanical/sleeping day to day everyday life which includes not expressing it even at the most subtle levels (i.e, body language, facial expressions and things like that). By not expressing it you have to be conscious of why your not expressing it, and the reasons for it. This allows the person to 'see' and sense the reaction and it's manifestations acting within oneself and learning how to properly, non destructively, deal with it via the Work and the psychological work that's researched and talked about on this forum and transforming it/ redirecting it/ and even ranting about it when appropriate in the proper circumstances where misunderstandings will not escalate

Your may very well be reacting to a potential situation (that the cop was a parasite) as if it was actually happening. Maybe this cop was just doing his job? The police forces are overall definitely getting more brutal, authoritative and militant all over the world especially in the US. This increases the possibility of it happening anywhere, to you or anyone else. But in your specific situation you may have projected this onto the cop. There's the increased potential that the cop may behave militantly, just like the way more cops are behaving all over, but when you reacted to him (without conscious consideration beforehand) then this can actually increase the possibility of a potential situation turning into an actual one. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy as it were.