@coldjoint,
You’re real particular about which polls you like, aren’t you?
@coldjoint,
Quote:God willing you fascists will not takeover to tell me what I can or can't do.
Hypocrisy is their middle name.
Who Goes Trump?
Tyranny as a Triumph of Narcissism
by Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C.
(cont')
Part 2
Pp. 310-316
The Society
Tyrants do not arise in a vacuum, just as tyranny does not spring on the world unannounced. It takes years of cultivation of special conditions in a society for a tyranny to take over.
Oppressive, dehumanizing (narcissistic (systems, like narcissists themselves, cultivate their delusions of superiority on the basis of that internal, unseen, and unspoken split between the grandiose blameless
I/US and of the value, inferior Others.
Another narcissistic aspect of such societies is it growing and ruthless competition, jealousy, and aggression within its borders, but also directed externally toward other nations and the scapegoating mechanism that is meant to prevent an internal breakdown of a society by redirecting its narcissistic rage onto external objects.
Fritz Stern has said that "German moderates and German elites underestimated Hitler, assuming that most people would not succumb to his Manichean unreason; they did not think that pays hatred and mendacity could be taken seriously. " Hitler was seen by many as a bombastic but harmless buffoon, while many others, including members of clergy, intellectual elites, and the wealthy were nevertheless mesmerized by his grand visions of Germany's future glory, and eagerly supported his agenda.
Narcissism of the elites make them as well blind to the encroaching tyranny. It is a convenient - - and yes, narcissistic - - myth that only the dispossessed and uninformed would support the tyrant. It is not the economic or educational status has determined such susceptibility, but one's narcissism, and that cuts across socioeconomic strata.
Note that the process that the Nazis themselves had not understood is the very narcissistic illusion, a near psychotic infection with this virus of grandiosity and rage on the mass scale. It is rarely grasped, not even from the perspective of time, as our blindness makes it impossible to acknowledge it, which renders our narcissism the last taboo in the world that has dispensed with taboos. Our denial and social amnesia further entrench our incomprehension and ensure that history repeats itself.
Part of our forgetting involves distortions of historical and psychological facts. Safely removed, time-and-distance-wise, from the latest tyranny-causeed mayhem, we tend to imagine tyrants as instantly recognizable evil beings and tyrannies as something exotic enough never to happen to us. But as history and experience demonstrate, power-hungry narcissistic psychopaths do not look different from normal people; and if they stand out, it is often for socially approved reasons: their resolve, charisma, decisiveness, and ability to inspire others.
No tyrant comes to power on the platform of genocide or tyranny, even though such ideas may be brewing already in the recesses of his mind. Each and every one of them promises to bring back law & order, create better economic conditions for the people, and restore the nation's glory.
The tyrant shows up in this society that is already weakened by disorder, blind to it, and unable and/or unwilling to take corrective measures that would prevent a tyrannical takeover. Once he and his sycophantic cabal assume power, they deepen and widen the disorder, dismantling and changing the society's norms, institutions, and laws to fully reflect their own pathology.
Under tyranny, paralogisms (ways of distorting reality and truth) and paramoralisms ( methods of perverting moral values), are unleashed on a large-scale through various propagandist means that include repetition of flat-out lies, accompanied by denials and obfuscations serve through the increasingly centralized and controlled media. Fortified by magical thinking and contempt for reason, these distortions lead to the creation of the kind of absurdist unreality well-known to people raised in authoritarian regimes, where up Is down and black is white, and and where what one knows to be true may have nothing to do with the officially sanctioned version of the truth.
We can see the tyrants own pathology influencing every area of a society's functioning, from politics through culture and social mores to science and technology. What is being seen, said, and studied, and what's ignored and silenced, depends on the tyrant's whims, and soon enough the society itself and its ideology are structured in ways that meet the pathological needs for power and adulation. The implementation of this ideology is usually a gradual process, one that is eventually reinforced by the use of violence against persistent objectors. (e.g. protesters)
Our human propensity to submit to inhumane rules established by pathological authority cannot be overestimated. We have plenty of historical and contemporary evidence for it, as well as experimental data. An approving nod from an authority figure, no matter how insignificant or even real, can easily absolve us of responsibility in our minds and override any scruples imposed by our conscience, proving it's perplexing malleability.
The ease with which many so-called normal people shut down their conscience makes them not very different from functional psychopaths. This disturbing fact of human life if something the Tyrant counts on when he establishes his rain. He knows that he can expect loyalty from his followers and successfully demand it from the majority of society.
The ease with which the tyrannical ideology spreads is always greater than we want to imagine. Our narcissistic blindness makes it impossible for us to believe that it could happen here and that we, too, could be a susceptible to it as any other human beings in history.
Conclusion
Narcissism is as much a character problem as it is an error in our thinking. Seeing oneself as "above" is the general attitude of a narcissist toward the world, and the error of the tyrant and his followers.
As Burkle observes, we are seeing a resurgence of tyrannical leaders around the globe, even in nations that supposedly have learned the lessons of tyrannies past in the most painful ways. It is a sign of our pressing need to reckon with our collective shadow.
If we as a species are to flourish and prosper, we need to understand that our urgent and necessary task is to transcend and dismantle our narcissism, both individual and collective.
@coluber2001,
Your post describes to a T the Clinton ascension.
Thank keeerist the electoral college put a stop to that runaway freight train.
Thanks for posting.
@coldjoint,
You guys are the wannabe fascists, with a prerident who has publicly and repeatedly said he has the power to do anything he wants to do and an attorney general who agrees with him and says we can't call him to account for anything he does, because he has the power and sitting presidents cannot be charged with a crime no matter how blatant. That's fascistic is the classic "ein reich, ein volk, ein fuehrer" mold. Blather no nonsense about the left.
@MontereyJack,
Actions speak louder than words, and we know what the Obama/Clinton/Biden team got up to during their 8 year tenure.
The fact that they had the CIA/FBI/DOJ in their back pockets does not mean they weren't fascists or criminals.
It just means they were great at putting their people in the right spots, and blackmailing or disposing of those who wouldn't cowtow to their demands.
@Builder,
You will believe anything, as long as it makes you feel better about yourself. Pitiful.
@FreedomEyeLove,
So... you can’t name any?
@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:
Then they gave one to Arafat and Obama. The Nobel prize has gone downhill ever since.
Then you've been misled and have misunderstood the information I offered.
Please re-read my message carefully, in which I said "50% of the world total of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences, medicine, and economics are Americans. "
The inclusion in the message is limited to the laureates in the sciences, medicine, and economics. The winners of Nobel Peace/Literature Prize are excluded because they are not scientists.
@snood,
Quote:So... you can’t name any?
Um, for one thing let's get back to an honest media that covers HUGE stories like the sitting vice president being in the pocket of the Chinese government instead of silencing them.
2) Let's have a FULL investigation and press charges for everything found.
@oristarA,
ori, if you are expecting intelligence and comprehension from cj, then you are expecting too much!
