“LucasFilm Boss [Girl] Says Women in Star Wars Struggle with Toxicity Due to ‘Male Dominated Fan Base.’”
Ma'am, your job is to entertain the fan base so they continue buying tickets to your movies and thereby paying your salary. If your work doesn't entertain your fans, it's not a sign that your work is too good for the lumpenproles. It's a sign that you failed at your job.
Kennedy, in classic narc fashion, has turned the responsibility around. It's the responsibility of the audience to buy tickets to her movies, and if they don't it's because they're bad people.
Dead right, Kenaz. It also means that by appointing this person as the Lucasfilm Bossgirl, the board of directors of this corporation are not very smart. During the interview(s) for the job, she undoubtedly would have been able to use her ponerological Jedi Mind Tricks to manipulate their puny brains. I perceive that this vulnerability appears to apply to the directors of a lot of corporations – even here in the Land of the Lotus Eaters, also known as Australia.
Control is right. It might appear to be about power, but in those who have been swamp-gassed it's really about control. The power doesn't exist.
The funny thing is this theme parallels in the movies, even the early ones.
Remember when Luke levitated the x-wing out of the swamp!
The "power" of the Jedi mind control trick is shown to be non-existant, a joke.
In Star wars lore Lucas talks about how the failures of the Jedi, and it seems to me that many children favor, or identify with " dark side".
This isn't good, because "the force" is based on the transformative power of right action , l8ve , and not paramoralisms.
So frankly, kids, and fans in general, find her lack of "self reflective thinking disturbing".
So...hey lady, we never bought your plastic Star wars junk and figures, we just drew pictures and made spark plugs into space ships, because my parents were too Presbyterian like yours.
One problem is that the behaviour seems to be trainable, and non-psychopaths are learning how to transform themselves into something which functions in just this way, whether or not their internal mental processes are the same.
Ok..so it's not my imagination …im seeing it in young kids…I blame tv and videos..they cannot grasp the conept that their behavior is rude at the very least ..not to mention borderline psychopathy
This seems correct, Laura. If I am correct, Lobaczewski describes this phenomenon as the result of a reversive blockade or simply as a reversive blockade. You might, in everyday parlance, say the transformation you describe is the result of persistent gaslighting (or swamp gassing). Cheers!
Yes, this is done to a large degree through social media, also through the environment one is in making it the preferred behavior, people are imitative creatures.
I am a 1rst wave feminist, in those blessed days, it was as simple as same job same pay. Then the commie worm sneaks it and TURNS A BEAUTIFUL CONCEPT INTO ITS ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE, SATAN OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THAT, AT WORK. Those ^&%$# excuse-my-french take anything good and beneficial for us humans and turn it around like a sock to screw us humans. Been there, done that, game over, see you at Nuremberg 2.
Dunno exactly what 1st wave means, but I was a 60s feminist and I agree. The environmental movement has also been hijacked by opportunists and ideologues.
Great read! So true how the remedy is ponerologIcal knowledge. Same for the shadow of humanity in general. I liked this too: “Low-resolution worldviews obscure reality just enough so that truly evil operators simply get lost in a blur of unintelligible pixels. This is worldview warfare.”
That point about narcissists being unable to recognize their shortcomings can’t be highlighted enough. If a person can’t say “sorry, I screwed up,” in response to someone being upset about something reasonable, that’s a really bad sign.
I am not sure that the problem is they cannot _recognise_ their shortcomings. Some of them, at any rate, are working out of a belief that 'truth is downstream of power' .
“When there is no such thing as truth, you can’t define reality and when you can’t define reality, the only thing that matters is power.” — Maajid Nawaz
These people want to be too powerful to have shortcomings.
That’s a good point, “acknowledge” is probably a much better word than “recognize” there, and at root it is a question of even believing there is something that must be recognized or acknowledged at all. Being sufficiently powerful means never having to say you are sorry; I wonder if that correlates with people who are toadying lickspittles to any source of authority as well. If someone is more powerful they can do no wrong and all that matters is kissing up, and if they are less powerful you can do no wrong to them. Explains a fair bit of corporate behavior I have seen, at least, although I wonder how much is attributable just to culture as well.
The good news is these tactics are increasingly subject to diminishing returns; I wrote a similar piece and concluded with why I'm ultimately optimistic:
"As much as Laptop Class elites hope that hiding behind ostentatious claims of victimhood will insulate them from accountability, it’s far from a surefire strategy. Ultimately, the other shoe dropped for Claudine Gay, and Hillary Clinton learned the hard way you can’t browbeat people into voting for you. Nevertheless, She Persisted no longer."
That was so informative to read! Thank you! You are explaining some of the craziness we are experiencing but what has happened to quote unquote normal people? I find many on Substack but in today’s climate it doesn’t seem wise to say anything much at all to people you don’t know as reactions can be pretty intense. I still tend to smile at people out in public but where people always used to smile back now some people don’t, and where you always used to get a wave or small acknowledgment of thanks when you let people cut in front of you in busy traffic, not anymore. The world has changed.
So glad to see this stack open to read and comment as a non-subscriber. It’s the best way to draw in a broader audience, and there is no more important topic than understanding the personalities of those who rule us
In times like these, the worst kind of person emerges, the incompetent, the stupid, the ardent supporter of an ideology. In other times, she would have been axed a long time ago, but in revolutionary times, it is not the ability that matters but the achievement of ideological goals, and Kennedy is doing just that.
The problem insinuation of moral outrage was in my subconscious today when I woke. You have helped tremendously with the knowledge that outspoken moral outrage is often egoistic tripe with added volume and intensity calling for backup.
Great article. Lots of good content in here, but I specifically wanted to compliment the title. It caught my attention and led me to reading the article, and though the article had nothing to do with religion (formal religion, anyway) the title was incorporated in quite the powerful way. Excellent job.
Technical problem with substack, I think. I read this article in the app. At the bottom it said:
"Every two weeks I host a paid-subscriber-only discussion. Today we talked about realist geopolitics [...] To join in on such discussions consider becoming a paid subscriber"
I thought, that's interesting, but I never heard of this and I thought that I already was a paid subscriber. When I got back home where I could investigate things, I found out a) yes already paid subscriber, and b) in the browser version on my computer this article comes without the message.
1. Are other people seeing things as I am, or is this just me?
2. How are you informing readers of these discussions? Are you sending subscribers a special, separate mail? Because I have things set up so that I read all aubstacks in the browser/app only, and all email from substack goes to a special folder which I keep for a few weeks and then toss. I never read any of them. So if you are sending these out special I will have to make some sort of arrangement to recognise them and save them from the automatic mulching. :)
This jumped out at me:
“LucasFilm Boss [Girl] Says Women in Star Wars Struggle with Toxicity Due to ‘Male Dominated Fan Base.’”
Ma'am, your job is to entertain the fan base so they continue buying tickets to your movies and thereby paying your salary. If your work doesn't entertain your fans, it's not a sign that your work is too good for the lumpenproles. It's a sign that you failed at your job.
Kennedy, in classic narc fashion, has turned the responsibility around. It's the responsibility of the audience to buy tickets to her movies, and if they don't it's because they're bad people.
Dead right, Kenaz. It also means that by appointing this person as the Lucasfilm Bossgirl, the board of directors of this corporation are not very smart. During the interview(s) for the job, she undoubtedly would have been able to use her ponerological Jedi Mind Tricks to manipulate their puny brains. I perceive that this vulnerability appears to apply to the directors of a lot of corporations – even here in the Land of the Lotus Eaters, also known as Australia.
"your job is to entertain the fan base so they continue buying tickets to your movies "
If that was actually her job, why would they have hired her?
All of this "wokeness" "ESG", and "DEI" has a central hub of control, it is orchestrated.
Control is right. It might appear to be about power, but in those who have been swamp-gassed it's really about control. The power doesn't exist.
The funny thing is this theme parallels in the movies, even the early ones.
Remember when Luke levitated the x-wing out of the swamp!
The "power" of the Jedi mind control trick is shown to be non-existant, a joke.
In Star wars lore Lucas talks about how the failures of the Jedi, and it seems to me that many children favor, or identify with " dark side".
This isn't good, because "the force" is based on the transformative power of right action , l8ve , and not paramoralisms.
So frankly, kids, and fans in general, find her lack of "self reflective thinking disturbing".
So...hey lady, we never bought your plastic Star wars junk and figures, we just drew pictures and made spark plugs into space ships, because my parents were too Presbyterian like yours.
I'm gonna start watching for this...because i think narc psychopaths are fully 20 percent of the population now.
One problem is that the behaviour seems to be trainable, and non-psychopaths are learning how to transform themselves into something which functions in just this way, whether or not their internal mental processes are the same.
Ok..so it's not my imagination …im seeing it in young kids…I blame tv and videos..they cannot grasp the conept that their behavior is rude at the very least ..not to mention borderline psychopathy
Any media, music for example "drill rap" "gangster rap", to speak in general terms most modern media is toxic, certainly social media is.
Influencers seem to be one of the direct sellers of "narcissism is good".
This seems correct, Laura. If I am correct, Lobaczewski describes this phenomenon as the result of a reversive blockade or simply as a reversive blockade. You might, in everyday parlance, say the transformation you describe is the result of persistent gaslighting (or swamp gassing). Cheers!
Yes, this is done to a large degree through social media, also through the environment one is in making it the preferred behavior, people are imitative creatures.
I am a 1rst wave feminist, in those blessed days, it was as simple as same job same pay. Then the commie worm sneaks it and TURNS A BEAUTIFUL CONCEPT INTO ITS ABSOLUTE OPPOSITE, SATAN OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THAT, AT WORK. Those ^&%$# excuse-my-french take anything good and beneficial for us humans and turn it around like a sock to screw us humans. Been there, done that, game over, see you at Nuremberg 2.
Dunno exactly what 1st wave means, but I was a 60s feminist and I agree. The environmental movement has also been hijacked by opportunists and ideologues.
The general principle is widely applicable. At the moment I'm thinking specifically of the Censorship Industrial Complex.
On target, Tardigrade!
make her gay and lame ~ eric cartman
Great read! So true how the remedy is ponerologIcal knowledge. Same for the shadow of humanity in general. I liked this too: “Low-resolution worldviews obscure reality just enough so that truly evil operators simply get lost in a blur of unintelligible pixels. This is worldview warfare.”
That point about narcissists being unable to recognize their shortcomings can’t be highlighted enough. If a person can’t say “sorry, I screwed up,” in response to someone being upset about something reasonable, that’s a really bad sign.
I am not sure that the problem is they cannot _recognise_ their shortcomings. Some of them, at any rate, are working out of a belief that 'truth is downstream of power' .
“When there is no such thing as truth, you can’t define reality and when you can’t define reality, the only thing that matters is power.” — Maajid Nawaz
These people want to be too powerful to have shortcomings.
That’s a good point, “acknowledge” is probably a much better word than “recognize” there, and at root it is a question of even believing there is something that must be recognized or acknowledged at all. Being sufficiently powerful means never having to say you are sorry; I wonder if that correlates with people who are toadying lickspittles to any source of authority as well. If someone is more powerful they can do no wrong and all that matters is kissing up, and if they are less powerful you can do no wrong to them. Explains a fair bit of corporate behavior I have seen, at least, although I wonder how much is attributable just to culture as well.
The good news is these tactics are increasingly subject to diminishing returns; I wrote a similar piece and concluded with why I'm ultimately optimistic:
"As much as Laptop Class elites hope that hiding behind ostentatious claims of victimhood will insulate them from accountability, it’s far from a surefire strategy. Ultimately, the other shoe dropped for Claudine Gay, and Hillary Clinton learned the hard way you can’t browbeat people into voting for you. Nevertheless, She Persisted no longer."
https://milesmcstylez.substack.com/p/wokeness-is-eroding-accountability
That was so informative to read! Thank you! You are explaining some of the craziness we are experiencing but what has happened to quote unquote normal people? I find many on Substack but in today’s climate it doesn’t seem wise to say anything much at all to people you don’t know as reactions can be pretty intense. I still tend to smile at people out in public but where people always used to smile back now some people don’t, and where you always used to get a wave or small acknowledgment of thanks when you let people cut in front of you in busy traffic, not anymore. The world has changed.
"Low resolution worldviews". Beautiful.
So glad to see this stack open to read and comment as a non-subscriber. It’s the best way to draw in a broader audience, and there is no more important topic than understanding the personalities of those who rule us
In times like these, the worst kind of person emerges, the incompetent, the stupid, the ardent supporter of an ideology. In other times, she would have been axed a long time ago, but in revolutionary times, it is not the ability that matters but the achievement of ideological goals, and Kennedy is doing just that.
paranoïa as ultimate psychopathology.
The problem insinuation of moral outrage was in my subconscious today when I woke. You have helped tremendously with the knowledge that outspoken moral outrage is often egoistic tripe with added volume and intensity calling for backup.
Great article. Lots of good content in here, but I specifically wanted to compliment the title. It caught my attention and led me to reading the article, and though the article had nothing to do with religion (formal religion, anyway) the title was incorporated in quite the powerful way. Excellent job.
Technical problem with substack, I think. I read this article in the app. At the bottom it said:
"Every two weeks I host a paid-subscriber-only discussion. Today we talked about realist geopolitics [...] To join in on such discussions consider becoming a paid subscriber"
I thought, that's interesting, but I never heard of this and I thought that I already was a paid subscriber. When I got back home where I could investigate things, I found out a) yes already paid subscriber, and b) in the browser version on my computer this article comes without the message.
1. Are other people seeing things as I am, or is this just me?
2. How are you informing readers of these discussions? Are you sending subscribers a special, separate mail? Because I have things set up so that I read all aubstacks in the browser/app only, and all email from substack goes to a special folder which I keep for a few weeks and then toss. I never read any of them. So if you are sending these out special I will have to make some sort of arrangement to recognise them and save them from the automatic mulching. :)
I'll send you a private message, Laura.