"The Damage Caused By Betrayal"

Dante's Inferno is a very interesting story it's a descent into hell eh and it's it's actually one of the places that we sort of derive the popular conception of hell was partly based on Dante's on Dante's imagination on his work and what Dante was trying to do was to discover the hierarchical structure of evil and you know you might think there's a hierarchical structure of good some things are better than other things but there's also a hierarchical structure of evil some Evils are greater than other evils and he put betrayal in the in the in the lowest part of hell right so if you were betraying people you were right beside Satan himself and so and I think that's good that's very smart while Dante was a genius after all and I think the reason for that is that you see if someone trusts you they're laying their vulnerability open to you now they might just be naive let's say and that's we won't think about that because you're just a child if you're naive you can still be betrayed but if you're an adult and you trust it's often because you if you're an actual adult it's you willingly open yourself up knowing that you could be hurt right because you're not naive anymore so you decide to trust and you say I'll open myself up and I know that I'm laying myself open to you if you choose to use that power and then that's a good thing to know you know if you've been hurt as a child or hurt as a naive person you might say well why should I ever trust again which is a really good question and the answer is the reason you trust again once you're an adult is because you're courageous you're courageous it's an act of courage to trust and the reason it's useful is because if you trust someone you open the door to reciprocity and negotiation and cooperation and you entice the best part of the person forward and so it's a it's a courageous Act but then if you betray someone then what you've done is you've taken the best part of them which is the part that will courageously trust you know with open eyes right and you've stuck a dagger in that and so you've purposefully damaged the best part of them and so that's why it's such a egregious fault and and it's often people don't recover from that sort of like you if you betray someone badly enough you can you can damage them like you can give them post-traumatic stress disorder if you really if you really put your mind to it and you know that's not just a psychological disorder if you have post-traumatic stress disorder it produces permanent neurological alterations that make you more neurotic more sensitive to negative emotion really for the rest of your life like you can you can recover from it to some degree but stress will tend to re-instantiate the PTSD so you you hurt someone and it's not merely cycle not not that psychological is merely but it's not merely psychological right it's it's fundamental physiological damage

Channel: Matthew John Grabow

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Length: 3min 4sec (184 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2022