EMOTIONS AND A COUNTRY'S FATE

Because energy is contagious, we should avoid those who are unhappy and unlucky, for their fate can become ours. The same goes when electing our leaders.

We are all, at all times experiencing different emotions. Emotions are simply energy in motion, which radiate certain frequency. Depending on the energy’s frequency, we can attract prosperity or misery. Just as our energy can spread to other people and affect their outcomes in life, so our leaders’ energy can affect the outcome of our life and of our country. Thus, we should elect happy and fortunate leaders whose high energy will spread to the rest of us. Then, we as individuals can prosper, as will our nation.

Robert Greene’s 10th law is about “avoiding the unhappy and unlucky” as if it was an infection. We can die from someone else’s misery, as emotional states are as infectious as diseases. The unlucky often draw misfortune on themselves and those who surround them. Hence, Greene suggests, we should associate with the happy and fortunate instead. This law should apply not only on an individual basis but to group dynamics as well. That is, we should strive to appoint happy and fortunate leaders. For an unhappy and unlucky leader will draw its community towards misery, just as the luck of the fortunate one will seep to the rest of us. The importance of choosing a hopeful and positive leader can hardly be overstated, as his example will be mirrored by the ordinary people.

Choosing the right or wrong leader can become a virtuous or vicious cycle. Electing a negative and unlucky leader can bring upon demoralization with all its consequences. Doing so, can result in the election of similar destructive heads that reflect its subjects’ poor state of being. That, I believe, is what Jefferson meant when he said that "The government you elect is the government you deserve.” More often than not, our leaders mirror the people (at least the majority) that got him elected. Alternatively, electing a positive and courageous leader can empower its constituents and inspire them to achieve their full potential, to pursue a better life and benefit from all the blessing it brings. That is why we should follow Greene’s 10th law when choosing a leader.

While Greene insists we should avoid the unlucky, for their misfortune can become ours, he does not fully explain how that comes to be. The answer I believe lies in the law of attraction which states that “like attract like” or that “birds of a feather flock together”, which can be proven scientifically. Because all matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms, which are constantly moving, all matter is said to contain or to be energy. In other words, matter may just be a characteristic of concentrated energy. This law applies to the human body, which generates electricity that flows through it. This electric current in the body generates an electromagnetic field (frequency) that can be measured scientifically. That is why we can sense and talk about person’s vibes or energy: “she gives off such a good vibe” or “I don’t like the energy of that guy.” We can sense a person’s energy, hopefully accurately, because it is real. That is, our energy levels can be measured and sensed by others.

The importance of understanding that we are energy lies in the understanding that whichever frequency we radiate will be the frequency that we attract, and that the energy we are surrounded by will inevitably affect our own. That is why the unlucky and unhappy can drive others to misery and why “like attract like.” While we need a cutting-edge machine to measure a person’s energy levels, there are certain rules of thumb we can use to know and understand a person’s frequency. The easiest one I believe is the map of consciousness explained in Dr. Hawkins Power vs. Force book. According to Dr. Hawkins, each emotion is associated with a level of consciousness. The higher the emotion, the higher the level of consciousness, thus, the higher the energy level of a person (full list). For example: enlightenment, peace, joy and love are the highest, while shame, guilt, apathy and grief are the lowest. This means that a person experiencing shame will have a low energy level, while a joyful person will have a high one.

Following this map of consciousness, we can more easily comprehend how it is that we are able to sense another person’s energy level. Because we are all, at all times, experiencing certain emotions and radiating the corresponding frequency. A guilty, fearful, or envious person will transmit a sense of “low energy” or “bad vibes”, while a loving, courageous, and generous person will transmit a sense of “good energy” or “good vibes.” It follows, that the envious will attract the envious, as they are operating at the same energetic level. Just as the joyful will attract the joyful. It can also be the case, however, that a joyful person who frequents an envious one can be drained of its energy, and vice versa. Through this lens we can better understand election results in the U.S. and the growing divergence with its European allies.

Because groups such as political parties are made up of people, they also have certain measurable (or sensible) energetic levels. I believe the political campaign ads for the 2024 U.S. election were a clear display of such energetic levels. The gap in the energy levels between their messages caused the abysmal difference in the results. While the Republicans gave a message of hope, the Democrats gave a message of despair. Both the hope and despair can be felt by people, because they carry an associated frequency. Needless to say, because hope is much higher energetically than despair, people feel more inclined to associate themselves with the hopeful than the despaired. The hopeful can elevate while the despaired can only suffocate (Greene’s 10th law). Thus, because Americans are at their core, as Peter Thiel put it “definite optimists”, they voted for the candidate that offered a message of hope while rejecting the indefinite pessimism offered by the democrats. Europeans appear to be shocked at the results because they have instead adopted a message of despair that has led them to become indefinite pessimists.

The people of the United States rejected the left because consciously or unconsciously, their collective energetic level is much higher than the ideas they encouraged and promoted. The democrats have been running on fear, anger, envy, guilt, blame, amongst many other low energy emotions. For example, AOC fearful message that the world will end and we will all die because of climate change, President Biden anger in calling Trump supporters garbage, Elizabeth Warren envious call for the rich to pay more taxes, Tim Walz falsely and guiltily apologizing for being white and having had white privilege, the continued push to extend abortion (against life) term limits, not to mention Harris’ constant fake laugh to avoid answering difficult questions while portraying moral superiority. These all are low energy messages, which cannot but elicit low energy emotions from people. Similarly, the campaign offered a “bad vibe” message that focused on all that is wrong with Trump, the Republicans, and the United States while offering “low-energy” solutions like increasing taxes (punishment), controlling speech (control), ending white privilege (discrimination), ending the patriarchy (oppression), banning energy production (destruction), permitting and extending baby killing term limits (murder), increasing government spending (thrift), allowing illegal immigration (illegality), increased regulation (more control) funding multiple wars abroad (murder and control), amongst others. None of these messages offered hope, it was in fact quite a depressing message that was portrayed. Eventually, anybody that was operating on a higher level of consciousness was bound to reject such depressing message. Otherwise, they would not have suffered such an incredible loss across the board.

Unlike the left, and whether we agree with their proposals or not, conservatives ran a much more positive message. We could argue that people “just wanted change,” which would be a valid argument had the results been close. They were not. Conservative’s message resonated with the core of Americans who believe in “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Their campaign triggered much more energetic emotions. Republican’s message was united and clear, it focused on prosperity and what needs to be done to bring back the American dream. Its message was not an attack on their own country, but instead a defense grounded on their love for it (a sin nowadays). The campaign ads were basically short motivational videos that promised to make America great again, to make it healthy again, to make it safe, to bring peace and unity, to protect the family, to promote innovation and growth, amongst others. The campaign, I believe, showed gratitude and love for their country, some of the highest frequency emotions. They did not make people feel guilty, or angry, or envious, or hopeless, rather the opposite. Thus, they won almost everything that could be won. They won because their message resonated more with Americans as it probably elevated their spirits.

This phenomenon of energy levels permeating through society can also be seen across Europe where most current elected leaders operate on low energy levels. Europeans, generally leftists, permeate negativity or indefinite pessimist as Peter Thiel put it. Their message is quite a depressing one, based on fear, guilt, envy, and other low energy emotions. It is why they impose regulations on everything that moves, because they care not about growth or greatness, but about control. It is why they have basically open borders policies, because they have been taught to feel guilty about their nationality. It is why they tax everything that succeeds, because their socialist views are founded on envy. Why they (many) no longer have children, because love and nurturing are not values that are promoted and instead are fearful about Mother Nature and the environment. It is why they hate Trump so much, because they have for some odd reason been taught that loving their country is an unforgivable offence, that individuality is a crime, that having children is male oppression where women lose, that success can only be brought about by oppression, that equality is the only desirable outcome, and that they should care more about others than themselves even if it brings about their own destruction. The left in the U.S. perhaps lost because Americans see that Europe, once great, has become an old heirloom. The low energy emotions and message of their leaders has permeated across the culture. Hence, many countries are now moving back to more conservative parties that promote freedom, family, God, and the love for their country (e.g. The Brothers of Italy, the Sweden Democrats, the French National Rally, the German Alternative Party, etc.).

Energy levels, or emotions, evidently not only affect election results, but a country’s development as well. Just as a depressed person (low energy) can achieve little to nothing, and a fearful person will become paralyzed and lose his ability to act, so a country fertilized with low energy emotions will be able to produce nothing and go nowhere. Such has been the case in Europe, and was beginning to become the path of the United States as well. Europe has been plagued by low growth since the turn of the century, high debt levels, lackluster innovation and technological progress, increasing crime rates, population decline (crisis levels), high youth unemployment rates, and their corporations have lost market share on a global scale. Their high standards of living are not as great as they once were, but are only the late fruits of past prosperity. Europe, once almighty, has lost ground and dominance on almost every category they once led. That is because a fearful leader focused on all that can go wrong imposes regulation, an envious one punishes the successful though taxation, a guilty one allows unbounded immigration that will destroy its own country, a faithless one who pretends to be omnipotent attempts to control all speech because he knows best, an angry one will promote the destruction of tradition on false accounts of oppression, and so on. That is what has happened to Europe, their leaders have been plagued by low level emotions, which have permeated to its people, causing a slow but sure destruction of their economy and once dominant prosperity. Were the U.S. to follow the same path, their economy and prosperity would soon tank, as happened for the previous four years.

A country is made up of people, their aggregate sentiment and beliefs determine the future of their country. Thus, a person and a country that wants to succeed must focused on having the right belief system. A belief system that is founded upon high energy emotions, that will result in high energy actions, that will ensure individual and national prosperity. A leader determined to lead his country to greatness must first feel love for its country and its people, must be peaceful and unwilling to use force unless strictly necessary and for the sole reason of defending its borders and its people, such leader must be hopeful about the future, he must be joyful about the work he does and the purpose he pursues, he must make rational decisions based on thorough analysis, and above all he must be courageous to act not based on fear but on faith. A leader that wants its people to flourish must promote freedom above all else, must value and defend life, and must encourage its citizen to embark upon the pursuit of happiness. A country whose people have a “good vibe” will choose a leader with “good vibes,” a happy and fortunate leader whose high energy will permeate through society. It is in such energy that the fate of a country depends.

In other words, the unhappy and unlucky are, simply, people operating on low level emotions. Their low energy attracts nothing but misery, which can be contagious. Similarly, the happy and fortunate run their daily lives on high energy emotions. This frequency is what attracts their “luck”. That is why we must adopt a high energy belief system and associate ourselves with “good energy” people. The same goes when choosing our leaders. We should ask ourselves what energy do their message and actions have? We must elect those who are fortunate and optimist, for their optimism and good fortune will spread to society. Alternatively, if we elect as leaders those who focus on the negative and spread words of despair, such fate can and likely will become ours.

p.s. avoiding the unhappy and unlucky I am of course not suggesting to avoid helping other when in need or the likes, which would be an act generosity (high energy). But rather avoid those who voluntarily chose a poor mindset and insist on seeing the glass have empty.

The 48 Laws of Power – Robert Greene

Power vs. Force – Dr. David. R. Hawkins

Zero to One – Peter Thiel