Plasticstrength
The fake power that leaves us empty and detached.
Dragonstrength is the antidote to Plasticstrength.
Plasticstrength is the artificial, empty illusion of strength that we can build up when we are out of touch with the Dragons.
It is called Plasticstrength, because it is as fake as a plastic plant.
A plastic plant can look nice and healthy from a distance, but there is no life in it. Plastic plants cannot nurture anyone, they do not produce any oxygen, their smell is artificial.
There is nothing wrong with using plastic plants for their specific purpose, like art or decoration. But they can be very harmful, if we use them as actual plants.
Plasticstrength can have real effects in the world.
Throughout human history, Plasticstrength has been used to build political and business empires.
People who are out of touch with the Dragons can develop plasticstrength.
Someone who develop great Plasticstrength can create the illusion of giving leadership and hold.
People who are out of touch with the Dragons still can have human strength.
They can still feel love, compassion, friendship, hope.
But they can be shaken by events and get hurt.
If they get hurt, they can lose some of their human strength.
If people lose too much of their human strength, they can get overwhelmed by frustration, insecurity, and fear.
If they get overwhelmed by frustration, insecurity, and fear, they can get disrooted.
People who get disrooted crave for signs of strength.
People who crave for signs of strength can fall into the trap of Plasticstrength.
Some may develop Plasticstrength themselves.
Some may feel attracted by someone else’s Plasticstrength.
The essence of Plasticstrength is insincerity.
Insincerity can fill the ego with an illusion of self-confidence.
The ego filled with illusion is hollow.
Realizing its own hollowness is the biggest threat to the insincere ego.
Facing their own insincerity is the biggest threat to those who fall into the trap of Plasticstrength.
Plasticstrength can turn frustration, insecurity, and fear into greed, judgment, and aggression.
People with great Plasticstrength can use greed, judgment, and aggression as tools for controlling disrooted people.
This is how Plasticstrength can give power to people who are out of touch with the Dragons.
The essence of Dragonstrength is love.
Dragonfriends never judge.
To Dragonfriends, no-one is lost.
Dragonfriends can direct their love to give strength.
They can direct their love towards disrooted people.
They can give strength to dissolve greed, judgment, and aggression.
They can give strength to overcome frustration, insecurity, and fear.
Dragonfriends can give the strength to become more sincere.
Dragonfriends can put people in touch with the Dragons.
The Dragons can fill all hollowness.
This is how Dragonstrength is the antidote to Plasticstrength.*
Metaphors for lovers of rationality
If you wish, you can see the Dragons as metaphors for old emotions and traumas that are deeply enshrined into our neural structures. You can see the concepts of Dragonfriends, Dragonstrength and Plasticstrength as metaphors for different emotional coping mechanisms.
Read a more detailed rational explanation in Dragons?? What do you mean, Dragons?
This is my third Dragonstory. Check out the the fourth one about Dragons?? What do you mean, Dragons? Or jump to first one about Dragonstrength or the second one about Dragonfriends.