Most people do not want to understand their emotions. Instead, they just want to silence them. To do so, they must trick their emotions, they must lie to themselves, that there is no reason, at least no longer, for such emotions.
So, what we have is plenty of jealous people who are jealous of other people having something they do not have but who do not want to understand their jealousy and deal with it in a rational way because it would take too much of their time instead preferring to trick it into thinking that there is no reason for it. There are many ways to do this but only one way is of interest to us. This one consists in accepting that there is a problem and that something has to be done about it but without accepting the real problem instead misinterpreting it for a simpler one. Basically, the trick consists in tricking your brain into thinking you have acquired those possessions that made you jealous in the first place when in reality you have merely acquired an imitation of them.
Sometimes, you just have to admit that you will never have, or that it will take a lot of your time to acquire, what other people have. Most are incapable of doing this so they set out to trick themselves into thinking that they can, that they will and that they did acquire what other people have but they previously didn’t.
The obsession with “equality” and “equal opportunity” is one such example. People think that by manipulating conditions they can become what others have become through generations of evolution ignoring, for example, that none of these people manipulated their conditions in order to become what they have become.
Most importantly, none of these lied to themselves.
But they nonetheless think that that’s the way to become what others have become. Which it isn’t.
Obviously, they don’t care about the process, they only care about the end. If they draw their eyebrows and they look exactly the same as natural ones they think they have created the same kind of eyebrows.
Utter inability to distinguish between natural and artificial.
Thus, nowadays, we have people consuming, ornamenting themselves with, symbols that represent nothing real.
Like a bodybuilder who thinks that he’s a real man simply because he has muscles. We have a symbol, muscles, that suggests a real man, but there is no real man.
And so is our dear Trixie’s DNA machine an example of an attempt to acquire a trait that cannot be acquired in this manner.