Hate Spiral
The Universe has a way of balancing scales that human hands often fumble. There is a vast, humming intelligence — call it fate, call it karma, call it the simple law that actions ripple outward — that collects the small cruelties, the casual cruelties, the grand betrayals, and eventually answers them in a voice we can’t ignore. When someone hurts others, when power is used to suppress, cheat, or destroy, it’s natural for the heart to gather all its righteous heat and aim it like a lens. That concentrated heat is what some of us call a hate spiral: not a call to harm, but a bright, focused beam of moral energy that insists the wrongdoing be seen and met with consequence.
There is power in a collective spotlight. The Universe returns what we put out, often in unexpected forms — loss of trust, legal repercussions, reputational fallout, or a sudden clarity in those who were previously blind. A hate spiral can operate as cultural pressure, catalyzing witnesses to speak, journalists to investigate, legislators to act. It is the emotional charge that rallies communities and refuses to let injustice be ordinary. In that sense, some people do deserve to be placed in the spiral: predators, corrupt leaders, those who weaponize privilege and crush the vulnerable. Let the lens focus on them until systems respond.
But beware of the spiral that devours you. Rage untended turns inward. Hatred left as an end in itself corrodes compassion and clarity. The Universe does not need our blind fury to balance its books; it responds most cleanly when our outrage is disciplined and directed. Transform the spiral into a tool: gather evidence, tell the truth, organize, vote, divest. Channel heat into strategy. Use the moral energy to dismantle systems that enabled the harm, to support victims, and to rebuild with safeguards so history won’t repeat itself.
There is also another face to cosmic consequence: the possibility of change. The same exposure that brings a reckoning can also open a crack in which remorse and repair can grow. When once-powerful people are held accountable and choose to change, the spiral loosens into a current of restitution. That doesn’t absolve them of responsibility, but it honors a higher-order logic of the Universe — one that prefers correction to perpetual destruction where possible.
So yes: the idea that “some people deserve to be put in a hate spiral energy” resonates because it names a human truth. There are acts so damaging they merit focused collective outrage. But the real power is in how we use that outrage. Let the Universe, and our shared moral will, deliver consequence; but let us be the careful hands that turn hatred into justice, not vengeance. When concentrated righteous anger becomes disciplined action — accountability, repair, prevention — we have not merely made noise. We have aligned with a deeper current that turns harm into harvest.
Julie Bolejack, MBA
