Tuesday 15 November 2016

Political correctness & the state of contemporary, pseudo-left

origins of narcissistic flight

Western culture is in flight from reality because of the way its seems that the colonialism of the past has come back to bite it on the bum.  And, in fact, Christianity plays a role in intensifying and facilitating this flight though its notions of sinfulness.
What has happened is that in the post-colonial world, where active colonialism has now ceased, the colonial past has been painted as a quintessential form of diabolical evil.  In effect, the West now looks upon its own recent past, (and symbolically, looks at its infancy) as unmitigated and undiluted evil.  
If we compare the situation to a human child, supposing that child is told that it is diabolically and abysmally evil, what will the child do?  It will flee from itself and try to find another self, or another way of being.   At the core of the human narcissistic is extreme self-loathing, and at the core of Western civilisation, there has also developed a sensation of the same profound self-loathing.   As a result of this self-loathing, the members of the West, especially its priestly caste, the academics, struggle to see things in ordinary shades of grey.  Instead they lapse into black and white thinking, where one moment they feel that they are the messiahs and saviors of the world, and the next minute they feel that they are hopelessly beyond redemption.  (They revert to primitive defence mechanisms.) 
But it is not Christianity itself, but the inability to take in history and to come to terms with it more realistically that has shattered the foundations of any ethical thinking and genuine or sincere behavior in the West.  This guilty feeling that leads to a flight from reality also prevents people from understanding each other in realistic terms, since somebody traumatized in the way that Western civilization has been, will revert to black and white thinking only.  If you try to explain your situation to them, they may cast you as a devil, or an evil doer, whilst casting themselves as heroes and martyrs for a cause.  They revert to an immature state of being unable to process the complex realities of another human being in their midst.

That is the cause of the narcissistic phenomena in the West and its regression to infantilism.

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The profound self-loathing of the West is not DUE TO colonialism, but rather it is DUE TO the inability to process colonialism as a realistic, material fact, and to integrate knowledge of it into one’s normal behaviour.   To put it clearly, I do not see anything wrong with paying reparations to those who were subjugated, so long as one does it from the bottom of one’s heart and is not forced.  Actually that would be a wholly realistic way of handling the matter (I mean “realistic” in a psychological sense, although it could present other sorts of problems, politically and economically.)
 
Also, developing an understanding of violence and how it is still very much woven into our human natures would be a psychologically realistic way of handling the past.
 
But for the most part, nothing like this has occurred.  Instead their has been a devolution into primitive defences, as a way to dodge or disavow the past.  And those who are most likely to harp on all the time about “colonialism” are also likely to be the most primitive in their embrace of black and white thinking.  Those people, in fact, also resort to magical thinking, because they think that constantly harping on about something will make things better.  In fact it just entrenches a sense of grievance about the past, whilst turning a blind eye ongoing violence (Including the rather abusive psychological violence of constantly upbraiding others in this way, for a past that has now slipped completely out of our control.
 
As for the Nazi regime, it was not caused by colonialism at all, but rather due to the break down of society due to Germany’s war debt and other factors.   Uneducated and small-minded people, with no end to their hardship in sight, sought out and found a scapegoat.
 
However, the postmodernist intellectuals also want to punish themselves for the Holocaust, which is why we had to have a destruction of any trust or belief in the solidity of a universal ethical foundation.
 

Once again, this desire to punish oneself has led to an outgrowth of stress, uncertainty, and consequently, primitive defences.

Monday 14 November 2016

The internal revolution

the paradigm of shamanism


I have contrasted the modern Westerners narcissistic paradigm with that of the traditional "schizoid" type. One of the marked features of this contrast that I am trying to bring out is that the schizoid type does not have such a bombastic sense of his or her PERSONA as the contemporary Westerner does. Now, note that I do not attribute to the contemporary Westerner (who is narcissistic) a strong sense of SELF. But the Westerner has a really energetic and often well defined sense of their PERSONA. The schizoid type does not have this, and so is unlikely to energetically or emotionally project their defined persona in the world. Rather the persona for a schizoid type is very fuzzy. Paradoxically, what is strong for them is their sense of SELF, which is likely to be grounded in their sense of their earlier origins, or in nature. It is by virtue of having this very strong anchoring in a very early sense of self that the schizoid can play with the concept of persona as something necessarily undefined. Whereas the PERSONA for the Westerner is a political demarcation (hence, identity politics), the schizoid (traditional type) is rooted so firmly in their sense of tribal or geographical origins, that they reduce PERSONA to something very non-political. For them, PERSONA is forever shifting, and it is a means to convey the meaning of larger social or political dramas, through putting it on as a mask. (The schizoid does not identify with the mask but uses it to convey certain social or political meanings that are much bigger than himself.) It is not that emotion is not involved here, but it is very filtered, so that what is conveyed is the larger drama of existence, rather than the narrow needs of the individual or his sense of entitlement. The schizoid (old fashioned type) is necessarily impersonal., and so therefore are his or her emotions. And so, of course, the type I have labeled as "schizoid" is also more attuned to shamanic communication, which involves the doubling of the self-identity, social mediation, and wearing a mask ("persona") for the sake of reflecting broader truths on behalf of others.

Tuesday 8 November 2016

Why religious ideas contaminate "science"

Response to Antistar: gender wars

Blaming individuals for the effects of history





RELEVANT WORDS BY SASHA SLONE:
Sacha Slone2 weeks ago
Narcissistic people, who prefer fantasy to reality, will indiscriminately join any group available to virtue signal from. Void of self-knowledge, these people will become highly triggered when you contradict the lies that they live on. The narcissistic social justice warrior is unreasonable, sanctimonious, biased, and self-aggrandizing. Their end goal is achieved through censorship and the continued propagation of codependent relationships. Gang stalking is a form of community mobbing and organized harassment. Organized targeting of a group is often about revenge, jealousy, sport, and/or to keep the target quiet. Gang Stalking is a systemic form of control, which seeks to suspend the activities of the targeted group. Once the targets are flagged, a notification is sent out to the community at large, and the targets are followed around 24/7 and harassed by 'community' volunteers. Portraying a group of targets as "the bad guys" is an effective gang stalking tactic. The abuse is masked under the guise of 'social justice' and 'public safety.' The gang stalkers will posture and grandstand by creating a series of manufactured events until everyone believes the target is a bad guy. A successful propaganda campaign will result in the gang stalkers being able to justify the target's punishments.

Friday 4 November 2016

Professional Victimhood - Vulnerable narcissists, empathy fatigue, cultural decay - YouTube

Professional Victimhood - Vulnerable narcissists, empathy fatigue, cultural decay - YouTube



The Victim Olympics is very strange and is a core part of contemporary Western culture. It leads to people speaking a totally different language, whereby expressing solidarity with them is viewed, somehow, as "stealing their identity". Anybody who expresses sympathy or solidarity with someone who has been afflicted with this illness is viewed as having a malicious motive. You really have to reason things back to front to even try to understand how that works, which I cannot do. Once you make friends with them, or give them anything, they become your number one enemy, because they really deeply believe that you are set on stealing their identity.
This attitude prevents even normative politeness. When I first entered Western culture in an employment situation, I once pronounced that to my regret I had been a few minutes late to work because I'd missed the train, and I was greeted with, "Nobody is interested in your excuses!". But an excuse, in polite society, is a recognition of social norms, not a plea to have different standards applied to oneself than to others. I had no idea, back at that time, why people were being so dense about normal, social manners.

Equal opportunity pathologizing

Dominant systems, their psychological duplicity

Cultural barriers to objectivity