A few paragraphs from some personal papers were left to drift with the winds. When people think too small, too little of themselves, and feel they have no purpose in reality, in society, they often act in ways to satisfy their own personal short-term yearnings. With sensory hedonism, the process of obtaining personal pleasure through sight, smell, touch, hearing, and taste can become so intense that out come uncontrolled animalistic behavior such as rape, vengeance, power play, intimidation. Long-term goals orient around spiritual needs, needs of the soul, people's essence or what might better be called spiritual hedonism. The random and bewildering behaviors of murder rape, theft, intimidation, power play, abuse, infanticide, and suicide are active and passive forms of violence committed by people against not only others but to themselves as well.
Violence continually surfaces in society as people react to their status of inferiority.
Ironically, as the concept of the significance people have of themselves increases, so does the damage they do to others. There is, however an interesting point where this acceleration suddenly shatters and is instantly replaced by a whole new behavior pattern centered around eternity rather than the time span of mortals. Those thinking in terms of today do damage today. Those thinking globally up to the time of their mortal termination do global damage, i.e. Hitler. The thoughts of short sighted people seldom remain at a level beyond mortality.