April 05, 2025

There is projection and there is association, and they may be the same thing. One thing I project onto this image is that Donald Trump would not find anything attractive about it. My projection is that he would hate it. It is not his kind of place. My projection is that he is attracted to disturbance, conflict, chaos which he creates as a way of controlling the action and being in charge. If he can stir things up and be at the center of the brouhaha, he is in his element. Anything leaning toward peace, serenity, contentment, tranquility is against everything he stands for. All of this is a projection that I formulated as I wrote this. I associate this interpretation/projection with my experience of Donald Trump. And I have no idea where the lines lie between projection, association, interpretation, experience Which is to say that I can only experience what I interpret/project/associate with past experiences. None of this says anything about Donald Trump, and says everything about my idea of, my understanding of, my view of, Donald Trump.

We understand ourselves when we experience ourselves talking about our experiences with other people/things/places/ideas/etc. Everything we say about anything is our projection/association/
interpretation of the person/place/thing. What we have to say about anything is a mirror reflecting ourselves to us as we speak/write and examine what we say in order to understand that what we say is about who we are and how we see what we look at. Everything we say says more about us than about who/what/where we are talking about.

And doing so in relation to a scene like the one above enables us to examine ourselves in the presence of tranquility, serenity and peace, calming ourselves as we disturb ourselves and come to terms with who and how we are in order to simply recognize the truth of ourselves without implying that we are bad, shameful, evil or worthless. We experience who we are and can then explore how we came to be as we are and what that might mean for how we carry and conduct ourselves in the future, and who and how we may be throughout the time left for living.

I see my projections/associations as being accurate assessments of Donald Trump as they are accurate reflections of my interpretation of Donald Trump, and do not intend to change the way I see/think/feel about him until he begins to change his behavior and attitude in relation to people and events currently and in the future.