Your closing paragraphs struck a chill in me. The sense of community has been seriously eroded, at least in modern Western societies. From my own experience, and the stories told to me by my parents and grandparents, the decline in communities has been steady and worsening for at least fifty years. The modern sense of community is artificial and propped up almost entirely by local government, HOAs, and other organizations that are poor substitutes for natural human communities. It seems to create an environment that not only leaves lonely and vulnerable people easy targets for predators, but even creates the loneliness and vulnerability in the first place. Even worse, all those organizations and social services seem to attract the dark personalities in search of victims.
I live in a fairly small town with a low crime rate. It's far, far worse in the cities. There's a guy named Chase Hughes who has a Youtube channel that covers various psychological manipulation phenomena. He pointed out that the normal psychology of the modern city is fundamentally psychopathic.
I believe we're in the late stage of a full societal collapse, and it might be exactly what is needed to rebuild a healthy society.
Thank you so very much for all your work in diving so deeply into the darkness.
That's interesting- thanks! I happened across him not long ago. I've never watched anything more than a few "shorts". I found some of them very interesting and insightful but there were some others that put me off. He is very perceptive about manipulative behavior (I guess it's part of his professional work as an interrogator), but sometimes he's a bit manipulative himself, and I've noticed that he has himself fallen for a few of the media manipulations he cautions his viewers against. Interesting personality, though, and I've learned a few things from him. Always wise to use critical thinking with everyone, isn't it?
War shows that ordinary people are capable of tremendous cruelty and sadism if their leaders can successfully dehumanize The Other in the people's eyes.
I sometimes wonder if a psychopath is just a person who dehumanizes _everyone_ else.
You have performed a great public service by bringing Mitchell's work forward and fleshing it out with explanations.
I only wish that more were aware of what Hubbard did with this subject many years ago. His most definitive essay on the matter (The Anti-Social Personality / The Anti-Scientologist), which dates from 1966, has even been turned into a video for presentation on Scientology TV.
The conclusions of both researchers are much the same. These people MUST be brought under control if Mankind is to prosper. And meanwhile, the general public MUST be educated regarding this problem so they can better protect themselves.
"This personality type is driven by a deep level of malevolence and with shared attributes including a drive to control, sadism, predation, manipulation, and self-focus."
Best description I've yet seen of our victimizer class. They've evidently built multi-generational networks to prey on us and have successfully parasitized, tortured and poisoned us hundreds of years now. Arguably thousands of years.
Mitchell's work, and yours, are key to our going free of this predation. Thank you, Harrison!
Great article. It's no wonder that the Targeted Individual community has exploded since covid started, approximately 5 years ago...forced isolation, people being manipulated into being fearful of other people, everyone becoming ill, less socializing, etc., etc. The Powers That Be have created the perfect petri dish to promote this dystopian nightmare, where they can experiment & torture innocent & vulnerable folks.
It seems that Dr. Mitchell's goal of uniting the Dark Triad into a unitary phenomenon is similar to the goal of the German researchers at the website, Dark Factor of Personality. https://www.darkfactor.org/
I believe the latter individuals have relied on questionnaires as a source of data. It would be interesting to have an assessment from you about how these parallel efforts are different and are similar.
Yep, I’m familiar with their work, on a superficial level. I don’t have many thoughts on it except that I think it would be very helpful in the future to compare the use of their instruments with assessments using Mitchell’s model to see what differences, if any, show up.
Please note that there is no such thing as "gender identity," "nonbinary," "gender fluid," etc. and in fact all this language was invented for the purpose of spreading one of the most dark and evil, and false, narratives ("ideologies") of all time.
Your closing paragraphs struck a chill in me. The sense of community has been seriously eroded, at least in modern Western societies. From my own experience, and the stories told to me by my parents and grandparents, the decline in communities has been steady and worsening for at least fifty years. The modern sense of community is artificial and propped up almost entirely by local government, HOAs, and other organizations that are poor substitutes for natural human communities. It seems to create an environment that not only leaves lonely and vulnerable people easy targets for predators, but even creates the loneliness and vulnerability in the first place. Even worse, all those organizations and social services seem to attract the dark personalities in search of victims.
I live in a fairly small town with a low crime rate. It's far, far worse in the cities. There's a guy named Chase Hughes who has a Youtube channel that covers various psychological manipulation phenomena. He pointed out that the normal psychology of the modern city is fundamentally psychopathic.
I believe we're in the late stage of a full societal collapse, and it might be exactly what is needed to rebuild a healthy society.
Thank you so very much for all your work in diving so deeply into the darkness.
Chase Hughes? That name rung a bell. There are varying opinions about him:
https://www.youtube.com/@PeopleWhoReadPeoplepodcast/search?query=chase
That's interesting- thanks! I happened across him not long ago. I've never watched anything more than a few "shorts". I found some of them very interesting and insightful but there were some others that put me off. He is very perceptive about manipulative behavior (I guess it's part of his professional work as an interrogator), but sometimes he's a bit manipulative himself, and I've noticed that he has himself fallen for a few of the media manipulations he cautions his viewers against. Interesting personality, though, and I've learned a few things from him. Always wise to use critical thinking with everyone, isn't it?
War shows that ordinary people are capable of tremendous cruelty and sadism if their leaders can successfully dehumanize The Other in the people's eyes.
I sometimes wonder if a psychopath is just a person who dehumanizes _everyone_ else.
Thank you as always for this content.
The interviewer mentions Dr. Mitchell's organization at the start. I found the link for it
https://kalmor.com.au
That may be of value to other readers.
You have performed a great public service by bringing Mitchell's work forward and fleshing it out with explanations.
I only wish that more were aware of what Hubbard did with this subject many years ago. His most definitive essay on the matter (The Anti-Social Personality / The Anti-Scientologist), which dates from 1966, has even been turned into a video for presentation on Scientology TV.
The conclusions of both researchers are much the same. These people MUST be brought under control if Mankind is to prosper. And meanwhile, the general public MUST be educated regarding this problem so they can better protect themselves.
"This personality type is driven by a deep level of malevolence and with shared attributes including a drive to control, sadism, predation, manipulation, and self-focus."
Best description I've yet seen of our victimizer class. They've evidently built multi-generational networks to prey on us and have successfully parasitized, tortured and poisoned us hundreds of years now. Arguably thousands of years.
Mitchell's work, and yours, are key to our going free of this predation. Thank you, Harrison!
Great article. It's no wonder that the Targeted Individual community has exploded since covid started, approximately 5 years ago...forced isolation, people being manipulated into being fearful of other people, everyone becoming ill, less socializing, etc., etc. The Powers That Be have created the perfect petri dish to promote this dystopian nightmare, where they can experiment & torture innocent & vulnerable folks.
Harrison,
It seems that Dr. Mitchell's goal of uniting the Dark Triad into a unitary phenomenon is similar to the goal of the German researchers at the website, Dark Factor of Personality. https://www.darkfactor.org/
I believe the latter individuals have relied on questionnaires as a source of data. It would be interesting to have an assessment from you about how these parallel efforts are different and are similar.
Yep, I’m familiar with their work, on a superficial level. I don’t have many thoughts on it except that I think it would be very helpful in the future to compare the use of their instruments with assessments using Mitchell’s model to see what differences, if any, show up.
Thanks for gathering this all in one place.
Please note that there is no such thing as "gender identity," "nonbinary," "gender fluid," etc. and in fact all this language was invented for the purpose of spreading one of the most dark and evil, and false, narratives ("ideologies") of all time.
Ad sadism to the other three and it makes more sense
What I’d be interested in knowing is what happens when a DP encounters another DP?