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"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. " ~ Elizabeth Mika, A.K.A @yourauntemma
We paved the way for tyranny. https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
We paved the way for tyranny. https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
"Another narcissistic aspect of such societies is the growing and ruthless competition, jealousy, and aggression within its borders, but also directed externally toward other nations in a scapegoating mechanism..." https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
"None of these processes are openly acknowledged or even noticed by the members of these societies, save by a few typically ignored Cassandras." ~Cassandra. A.K.A Elizabeth Mika.
"It is not the economic or educational status that determines such susceptibility, but one’s narcissism, and that cuts across socio-economic strata." (E.M)
#AmericanNarcissism
#AmericanNarcissism
"Note that the process which the Nazis themselves had not understood is the very narcissistic collusion, a near psychotic infection with this virus of grandiosity and rage on a mass scale." (E.M.)
"Safely removed, time- and distance-wise, from the latest tyranny-caused mayhem, we tend to imagine tyrants as instantly recognizable evil beings and tyrannies as something exotic enough to never happen to us." (E.M.)
"No tyrant comes to power on the platform of genocidal tyranny...though such ideas may be brewing...in the recesses of his mind. Each and every one of them promises to bring back law and order, create better economic conditions for the people, and restore the nation’s glory."
"As freedom of speech, press, and assembly disappears and the tyrant’s destructive 'reforms' take hold, an ethos of The New Man — an ideal of a human being compatible with the disordered ideology — is being forced upon the populace."
"Our human propensity to submit to inhumane rules established by pathological authority cannot be overestimated." https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
"In this ease of shutting down their conscience, many so-called normal persons are not very different from functional psychopaths. This disturbing fact of human life is something the tyrant counts on when he establishes his reign."
"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 we, too, could be as susceptible to it as any other human beings in our history."
Tyranny feeds on the irrationality of narcissistic myths and magical thinking, even though its ideology may be disguised as hyper-rationalism, as it was the case with Communism. In this, it very much resembles the narcissistically psychopathic character of the tyrant himself:"
"...solipsistic, withdrawn from reality, full of grandiose and paranoid beliefs impervious to the corrective influences of objective facts."
"The reset of a society’s mores that follows the tragic aftermath of a tyrannical rule usually leads to a greater appreciation of the importance of universal human values — equality, justice, truth, and compassion — "
"but if care is not taken to implement these values in consistent practice, our narcissistic tendencies creep in and lead to social disorder, making us susceptible to tyranny again. Given our growing potential for self-destruction, the stakes go up with every tyrannical turn."
"If we as a species are to flourish and prosper, we need to understand that our urgent and necessary task is transcending and dismantling of our narcissism, both individual and collective."
(Conclusion) https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
(Conclusion) https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
