What if the rumors about Hillary and Huma are true? Would that not go a long way to explaining his bizarre behavior?
Now, we speak of shaming people. We speak of shame-based cultures. Implicit in this word, as used there, is that an act has been committed which has caused a reaction in others such that they are socially excluded.
But in Developmental Trauma Disorder, the issue is that person was never properly socialized to begin with. They never entered human society with a fundamental trust in, and sense of safety with, other people. Their–my–first impulse is to say NO to everything. To say yes you need trust. That trust is not there, because the sense of safety was never established at a primitive level.
To the point, though, I think if you could take physiological and neurological snapshots of someone feeling shame for having been banished from their group, and someone who never entered the group in the first place, they would be very similar. The speed with which a shamed person might reenter the group, if atonement is performed, is of course vastly faster, since there is a history upon which to draw.
For myself, I feel there is some part of me which responds to my every effort at personal growth and doing the “right things” (diet, exercise, etc.) with BULLSHIT. Some part of me feels another part of me is a bad salesman with a cheap tie and a fake smile. It is maddening to feel, but gratifying to see. You cannot correct problems you cannot see. So realizing how bad you are fucking up is major progress.
And this is not really fucking up. It is trying to deal consciously and patiently and systematically with problems I did not create and could not have prevented in any way, given my birth conditions and birth parents.
But I propose this condition, which also fosters self defeating behaviors, since our organism is likely organized to respond to social shaming with attempts at atonement, much in the way you will see dogs apologize for screwing up, be called psychic snow. It is cold. It surrounds you. And it must be thawed.
I may come up with something better, but I think much of time you need new words to think new thoughts. We need never be limited by language, because we can always make up new words. Never doubt your perception because you have not seen what you feel described. Perception precedes and vastly exceeds description.
But look at this: http://www.theweek.com/articles/646087/donald-trump-poised-lose-biggest-landslide-modern-american-history
What do you see? NO COMMENTS. Yahoo particularly keeps posting these Trump hit pieces, where no comments are allowed.
It is easy enough to understand the methods of aspiring totalitarians, but much harder to understand the motives. What do they want? What do they think they want? What unacknowledged emotional needs and pains are driving them?
In the modern world we have a pretty good understanding of Developmental Trauma Disorder. Bill and Hillary likely both have very severe cases of it, and both may actually be clinical psychopaths. Their fucked-up-ness is explained: their mothers did not love them effectively.
But who supports them? Who says “Global Fascism? Sounds good to me. How can we lie, cheat and steal in the pursuit of it?”
And to the point here, who are the people defending the indefensible? Is it just sheer stubbornness? Emotionally driven perceptual blindness?
After all we know about Hillary, who still feels a compelling need to lie, cheat and steal in the service of her agenda? The venal? Surely their numbers cannot be that large.
Whatever the specific answer, it is clearly a mass psychopathology which is moving away from general societal happiness and well being, and towards violence, injustice, cruelty, and mass social and economic failure.
You have to recreate the mind in order to address it, which brings us back to those I call the headless ones.
Large irony she worked on the Watergate panel and was herself accused of gross ethical violations, including compulsive lying.
My guess is the word is truculent. Bellicose would work too.
We will be told that asking people to immigrate legally, that enforcing the same standards Bill Clinton called for in the mid-90’s, is morally equal to calls for mass murder and concentration camps. Why? BECAUSE THEY FUCKING GET AWAY WITH IT. It’s that simple. Big lies can be told in public and repeated by the usual pundits because we never hold them to a higher, morally acceptable standard.
Edit: looks like the Cause and Huff and Pout are sticking to darkness. That was a good meeting they said. Great mess engine they said (I had messaging but mess engine works too). So even though Hillary is not going to make any campaign appearances for s month, after credible–now MORE CREDIBLE– rumors about her health, despite the fact that campaigning is normally how you demonstrate fitness for the job–she is staying home in bed, and letting her accomplices chant “Donald Dark Trump and his Darkening Darkness.”
This is not reasonable. It is a type of blackmail, in which you imply negative consequences for people not allowing you to control their behavior.
And it is not mature. Here is the thing: there is a world outside our ears, and a world between our ears. Maturity is both dealing well with what flows from the world to us, and with what happens within us in that process.
Anyone who can only calm themselves in very narrow, carefully defined, defended, protected spaces–and one wonders if it happens even then, since no space can preclude anxiety–is weak. They are helpless. They are traversing the route back to the womb, or back to being immobile creatures entirely dependent on luck, like anemones.
The path to happiness is the path to self regulation, is the path to self mastery is the path to being able to remain calm cool and collected in increasingly various, difficult, and potentially stressful situations.
The path to happiness, in other words, is AWAY from ersatz wombs called “Safe Spaces”.
Now as someone who has dealt with trauma all my life, I GET, I GROK, that there is a time and place for the sense of safety. I understand personal pain.
But I have never asked the world to go out of its way to be nice to me. I HAVE asked for emotional support. I have asked for hugs. I have solicited kind words on occasion. I have valued people who were nice to me. And I have yelled at people who, in my estimation, were assholes.
I get the sense, with all the special snowflakes nesting in our college campuses that one day I might be locked in a box for refusing to use the word “Cis”, which I still don’t know the meaning of, and do not intend to look up, because the pseuodo intellectual bullshit underlying will simply piss me off.
I didn’t laugh at this video at all. We are few short years away from this being reality, if we don’t wake the fuck up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcWu0tsiZM
Mental illness, emotional pain: these are problems to be solved, not badges of honor. Everything the Left touches goes into regression. We regress emotionally, intellectually, culturally, socially, economically and even physically. We are winding the clock back to times when raw violence, tribalism and bestial instincts ruled the world.
Here’s a word for the snowflakes who want to tell us how to act: Wlbur: Whiny Little Bitch, you are.
Asking politely for reasonable amounts of courtesy has long been a thing. Getting in people’s faces because of their unfamiliarity with your increasingly bizarre and loony list of demands is not asking for courtesy. It is demanding people kowtow to you and your infantile ego. It is demanding you be treated as a superior, because you are a victim. It is the opposite of everything good humanity has built in the past millenia.
As one obvious example, anti-white bigots assume both that all whites have benefited somehow from oppressions of blacks that happened a hundred years ago and only in some parts of the country, AND that all whites, then and now, hated black people; that even if they thought they were not racist, that they WERE racist; that it was somehow in their DNA.
There is no justification for this belief, other than that it provides a simple solution to a complex problem. Simplistic thinking meets emotional needs. It meets the need for control. It meets the need to alleviate the anxiety of uncertainty. It can provide a pseudo-intellectual rationalization for the expression of fundamentally anti-social emotions, among people who want to retain a sense of their own goodness and moral rectitude.
I think one could think of the need for abstraction where people are concerned as in most cases nascent or explicit psychopathology of one sort or another.
Clearly, we are animals. We need one another. We need safety and security. We need the feeling of meaning, which is likely tied to the feeling of belonging.
But the specifics, what people believe and why they think they believe it, are extraordinarily varied. It is bigotry, pure and simple, to say things like “all whites are racist”, much less “they, who did nothing to us, who took nothing from us, owe us”.
Most people are simple minded children, and the abuses are worst among those whose “educational” attainments would, had their education actually been effective, have warranted trust in them on the part of the masses; as things stand, Buckley’s comment that he would rather trust the leadership of the country to the first 100 people in the Boston phone book than to the faculty of Harvard is as true as ever.
Uneducated people guess and know they are guessing. The allegedly erudite err with confidence, often, and never look back.
In the 19th Century in America, and in present day China, there were clearly abuses. People worked long hours for low pay in unsafe conditions, and many landscapes were destroyed. This is clearly true. What is equally true is that there are no more robber barons in America, and that the implementation of Communism in China has not prevented their emergence there. Both in 19th Century America and in present day China, the cooperation and protection of the government was necessary for these abuses. Labor otherwise could and would have organized. It is impossible to illustrate the foundational corruption of Communist ideology more simply than to point out they ban labor unions.
Here is my point: if we think of government not as an alternative to Capitalism/Corporationism, but as a larger equivalent, then the idiocy of putting all power into its hands should become obvious. Communism is Megacorporationism. It is where the Corporation is everywhere, and has the power of life and death over every employee, who is also a slave. Everyone works for the same corporation, and nobody can protest, or find somewhere else to work, without risking death by fleeing.