I don't have the words to express my gratitude for your honesty and insights. As depressing and heartbreaking at what has transpired and will. God Help Us All .
To your question >> Is it possible to coexist with a totalitarian system that never ceases to use its psychological artillery?
No you cannot co-exist. You will always have to watch your back. You cannot negotiate with "their kind".
You may think you have reached an understanding to fend them off but like black mold, it will come back, creep in. Totalitarian systems same ideology as cartoon villain "Wyle E. Coyote". It might recede in the background but in reality, it will just step back waiting for the next opportunity.
They usually use the tactic of hidden predator/savior with solution (their hidden agenda) -> create problems and come in as savior with restrictions and conditions which is what they wanted in the first place - psyop-ing to give you the illusion of choice, illusionary free will.
Just because I spoke of love in my last comment, do not think for one instant that I believe they understand or care about the meaning of that word. They would use that against me without hesitation. I have an endgame also. ✝️🇺🇸
Thank you for bringing this book to our attention. I apologize for responding so late and what may seem to be an abuse of your good will but I am now halfway through the book and would like to share something I have observed.
I think it is critical to understand that, when the author describes the totalitarian, he is describing what we now know to be a psychopath. Once we gain that understanding, we can move from fighting the totalitarian's methods to ridding ourselves of totalitarians forever. I believe the author himself would be saying much the same if he were alive today.
When the author wrote this book in the fifties, our understanding of psychopathy was in its infancy. Indeed, as I understand it much of our original understanding of psychopaths began with professionals who, like our author, had experienced the pathology of totalitarian regimes firsthand. Today, the budding understanding that these people originally brought to the table has blossomed into a body of knowledge that goes far beyond that of these early pioneers. Afforded the perspective that we have today, I believe this author would say many of the same things but with a very different emphasis.
If he were alive today, the author of "The Rape of the Mind" would be screaming from the rooftops that the solution to the problem of totalitarianism already exists. At the root of the totalitarianism is not some mythical, undefinable "evil" but a very real and identifiable mental disorder. And we have the technology to identify that mental disorder, psychopathy, long before the psychopath is in a position to so horribly distort the world in which we live.
Rather than raving about "evil" and believing that there is nothing to do but strengthen our minds and resolve, we should be demanding that anyone aspiring to a position of public trust and/or power be tested for psychopathy. Not only are there simple checklists that professionals can use to identify the psychopath, there are also brain scans that can detect this condition far more definitely.
So, why are we not doing this extremely-critical check?
To begin with, the general public equates psychopaths with serial killers. That unfortunate misunderstanding obscures a truth is vastly more terrifying. Although there are indeed criminal psychopaths, most of whom commit an inordinate amount of violent crimes, none are remotely so dangerous as the sub-criminal psychopath. By way of example, serial killers can be responsible for dozens of deaths but, as we have seen only recently, sub-criminal psychopaths in corporations and government are capable of killing and/or maiming in the millions.
Unfortunately, the sub-criminal psychopath can hide his monstrous birth defect behind an engaging smile, a truly charming personality, and a fun-to-be-around persona. The public should not feel too ashamed for repeatedly electing him as their elected official or choosing him as their CEO because even trained professionals can be fooled by his amiable exterior. Yet the psychopath lacks something so fundamentally a part of us that most of us are never remotely aware of it.
The psychopath is born without empathy. Simply stated, empathy our unconscious, involuntary ability to feel what others feel. Thanks to empathy, most of us decline to hurt others, even when it would be to our benefit, for the simple reason that, in so doing, we would feel much of that same hurt ourselves. Freed of that restraint by his birth defect, the sub-criminal psychopath calmly and deliberately uses whatever means are available to remove any obstacle, as quickly as possible, to his quest for money and power. Another facet of this disorder is that the psychopath will never, ever have enough money or power to satisfy their craving. You may have already noticed the most obvious evidence of this; their unceasing insistence upon bringing the >entire world< under their control in what they euphemistically refer to as "a new world order."
Yet another reason we do not do this simple check for psychopathy is that we may already have waited too long. As should be evident from the behavior of pharmaceutical, medical, and government professionals during the "pandemic crisis", the psychopaths are running the show. Critical to our understanding of how this happened is to know that psychopaths manipulate us with "Left vs. Right" mythology so well that we overlook the obvious: psychopaths do not give a damn about ideology.
Through ruthless scheming, lying, and other manipulative methods, psychopaths automatically rise to the top on every point of the political spectrum. This is because, as the author of "The Rape of the Mind" points out, the totalitarian has no ideology. Regardless of which side they find themselves, left or right, the psychopath blithely spouts inflammatory ideological rhetoric while never meaning a word of it. That, folks, is the explanation for "RINO". (It also explains leftists who despite their supposed hatred for capitalism, inexplicably, worship huge corporations that knowingly sell poison.)
There is one last thing that should be said. The psychopath does not and never will regard his birth defect as such. On the contrary, he regards himself as superior, or "elite" as most now refer to themselves while jetting from place to place, stepping on the insignificant lives of others as if they were insects. Never does it dawn on them that they owe their feeling of superiority to the lack of empathy; a facet common, not just to every human, but to every mammal - including the lowliest of all mammals, the rat. To call these psychopaths "rats" would, in fact, be an insult to rats.
Thank-you for articulating our experience. But let's see what line's up with sanity. Switerzerland and Canada throwing away billions of dollars of jibidies. Japan stopping the monstrosity in its entirely. MPs in peeps and roars expressing themselves. The voice isn't there in full countermeasure, but the beats of our drums are being felt. They are. Envision our Success.
There is no "peacefulness" within or around totalitarianism, ever. Even sovereign individuals have to constantly mentally calculate every societal interaction in order to maintain a semblance of personal security. This type living would be a tedious exercise and one where the sovereign individual would probably have to be "armed" for ultimate protection at all times.
I do not intend to live in any manner that the Elitists and Demons have planned for the masses! Do not tread on me and I will have Liberty or the struggle will be to someone's death!
I don't have the words to express my gratitude for your honesty and insights. As depressing and heartbreaking at what has transpired and will. God Help Us All .
To your question >> Is it possible to coexist with a totalitarian system that never ceases to use its psychological artillery?
No you cannot co-exist. You will always have to watch your back. You cannot negotiate with "their kind".
You may think you have reached an understanding to fend them off but like black mold, it will come back, creep in. Totalitarian systems same ideology as cartoon villain "Wyle E. Coyote". It might recede in the background but in reality, it will just step back waiting for the next opportunity.
They usually use the tactic of hidden predator/savior with solution (their hidden agenda) -> create problems and come in as savior with restrictions and conditions which is what they wanted in the first place - psyop-ing to give you the illusion of choice, illusionary free will.
My 3 cents.
Just because I spoke of love in my last comment, do not think for one instant that I believe they understand or care about the meaning of that word. They would use that against me without hesitation. I have an endgame also. ✝️🇺🇸
Thank you for bringing this book to our attention. I apologize for responding so late and what may seem to be an abuse of your good will but I am now halfway through the book and would like to share something I have observed.
I think it is critical to understand that, when the author describes the totalitarian, he is describing what we now know to be a psychopath. Once we gain that understanding, we can move from fighting the totalitarian's methods to ridding ourselves of totalitarians forever. I believe the author himself would be saying much the same if he were alive today.
When the author wrote this book in the fifties, our understanding of psychopathy was in its infancy. Indeed, as I understand it much of our original understanding of psychopaths began with professionals who, like our author, had experienced the pathology of totalitarian regimes firsthand. Today, the budding understanding that these people originally brought to the table has blossomed into a body of knowledge that goes far beyond that of these early pioneers. Afforded the perspective that we have today, I believe this author would say many of the same things but with a very different emphasis.
If he were alive today, the author of "The Rape of the Mind" would be screaming from the rooftops that the solution to the problem of totalitarianism already exists. At the root of the totalitarianism is not some mythical, undefinable "evil" but a very real and identifiable mental disorder. And we have the technology to identify that mental disorder, psychopathy, long before the psychopath is in a position to so horribly distort the world in which we live.
Rather than raving about "evil" and believing that there is nothing to do but strengthen our minds and resolve, we should be demanding that anyone aspiring to a position of public trust and/or power be tested for psychopathy. Not only are there simple checklists that professionals can use to identify the psychopath, there are also brain scans that can detect this condition far more definitely.
So, why are we not doing this extremely-critical check?
To begin with, the general public equates psychopaths with serial killers. That unfortunate misunderstanding obscures a truth is vastly more terrifying. Although there are indeed criminal psychopaths, most of whom commit an inordinate amount of violent crimes, none are remotely so dangerous as the sub-criminal psychopath. By way of example, serial killers can be responsible for dozens of deaths but, as we have seen only recently, sub-criminal psychopaths in corporations and government are capable of killing and/or maiming in the millions.
Unfortunately, the sub-criminal psychopath can hide his monstrous birth defect behind an engaging smile, a truly charming personality, and a fun-to-be-around persona. The public should not feel too ashamed for repeatedly electing him as their elected official or choosing him as their CEO because even trained professionals can be fooled by his amiable exterior. Yet the psychopath lacks something so fundamentally a part of us that most of us are never remotely aware of it.
The psychopath is born without empathy. Simply stated, empathy our unconscious, involuntary ability to feel what others feel. Thanks to empathy, most of us decline to hurt others, even when it would be to our benefit, for the simple reason that, in so doing, we would feel much of that same hurt ourselves. Freed of that restraint by his birth defect, the sub-criminal psychopath calmly and deliberately uses whatever means are available to remove any obstacle, as quickly as possible, to his quest for money and power. Another facet of this disorder is that the psychopath will never, ever have enough money or power to satisfy their craving. You may have already noticed the most obvious evidence of this; their unceasing insistence upon bringing the >entire world< under their control in what they euphemistically refer to as "a new world order."
Yet another reason we do not do this simple check for psychopathy is that we may already have waited too long. As should be evident from the behavior of pharmaceutical, medical, and government professionals during the "pandemic crisis", the psychopaths are running the show. Critical to our understanding of how this happened is to know that psychopaths manipulate us with "Left vs. Right" mythology so well that we overlook the obvious: psychopaths do not give a damn about ideology.
Through ruthless scheming, lying, and other manipulative methods, psychopaths automatically rise to the top on every point of the political spectrum. This is because, as the author of "The Rape of the Mind" points out, the totalitarian has no ideology. Regardless of which side they find themselves, left or right, the psychopath blithely spouts inflammatory ideological rhetoric while never meaning a word of it. That, folks, is the explanation for "RINO". (It also explains leftists who despite their supposed hatred for capitalism, inexplicably, worship huge corporations that knowingly sell poison.)
There is one last thing that should be said. The psychopath does not and never will regard his birth defect as such. On the contrary, he regards himself as superior, or "elite" as most now refer to themselves while jetting from place to place, stepping on the insignificant lives of others as if they were insects. Never does it dawn on them that they owe their feeling of superiority to the lack of empathy; a facet common, not just to every human, but to every mammal - including the lowliest of all mammals, the rat. To call these psychopaths "rats" would, in fact, be an insult to rats.
Thank-you for articulating our experience. But let's see what line's up with sanity. Switerzerland and Canada throwing away billions of dollars of jibidies. Japan stopping the monstrosity in its entirely. MPs in peeps and roars expressing themselves. The voice isn't there in full countermeasure, but the beats of our drums are being felt. They are. Envision our Success.
There is no "peacefulness" within or around totalitarianism, ever. Even sovereign individuals have to constantly mentally calculate every societal interaction in order to maintain a semblance of personal security. This type living would be a tedious exercise and one where the sovereign individual would probably have to be "armed" for ultimate protection at all times.
I do not intend to live in any manner that the Elitists and Demons have planned for the masses! Do not tread on me and I will have Liberty or the struggle will be to someone's death!