That LA Times article on Israelis is a fascinating primer. Culturally very similar to how the Lebos act in Australia. They treat fair dinkum Aussies as suckers, dumb whitey with the handshake. You look down & your arm is missing... This type of bloke only respects money and the backup 👊 , niceywishy washy is an offered throat to them.
Western culture, AND Western men, are perceived as weak.
Excellent article. I view psychopathy as a spectrum. Question: does a psychopath who adheres to a strong empathetic moral code exist? I could argue, yes: Zero empathy and strong morality (as formulaic empathy) can coexist.
Reading this, it strikes me that the Lobaczewski view of the general problem is only hemispherical in that it considers exogenous threats only, and largely disregards endogenous factors that by nature make people more susceptible to bamboozlement by outside bad actors. This reaction to your post popped into my mind because I'm in the midst of reading a much more recent psychiatrist's book, that by Christopher Palmer (https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understanding-Health/dp/1637741588/ref=sr_1_1) that provides a general theory as to why a lot of Lobaczewski's bad actors (and "freiers", too) arise in the first place. I think adding what Palmer has to say to what to Lobaczewski wrote, would flesh things out nicely and provide quite a few more avenues for attenuation of the perennial threat.
Are people being misled by Israel by going "pondering moral evil in Israel's actions", when Israel would actually be biological evil at work? Thus, wasting time, mental resources, misled by a wrong lens which does not include enough knowledge, finally ending in taking apples for bananas. Question I am asking myself is if Israel is biological evil, because Netanyahou looks more like a child who'se been given an AK-47, some person playing with it's own poo
Sorry the above is not that much related to your article, but I enjoyed it much (your article!). To add a constructive comment: 1. I've noticed that manipulation nowadays may have credit. It provides "things", so "why not?!". Like the thug mentality, very attractive system for weak minds, for dealing with things nowadays, people lack positive and effective frameworks. I wished there were more examples of working normality. 2. There are people out there who dedicated their existence to manipulation and sometimes the level is beyond imagination. Always not enough prepared, we would first have to absorb the shock of contemplating a so huge amount of machiavellianism. I thank you because you sometimes point out towards this direction. Shocks absorbed many times. But I find it wrong that normal people - the norm - has to face this. Those psychos try to push that this is the norm, and we see very wounded people having litteraly no way of dealing with it - "forced to loose" and when loose they cannot deal with their defeat in addition.
great piece, Harrison... i'm in the process of reconciling some old trauma, some inflicted upon me, and some that i inflicted on others... working on a complete-amateur paper to pass along some useful info to others that are also working their way toward self-actualization... thank you... God bless.
Great to know some really do get it; the truth of evil and it's methods. The Universal mechanisms remain the same through time...'As much as things change, they stay the same.' Evil can only succeed when 'GOOD PEOPLE' do nothing or allow evil to stomp all over them.
Considering how difficult this subject can be to understand, this explanation is quite well-stated.
I was waiting for some real-world examples. But perhaps this is not the place for those. They can be very compelling, though. Some of my favorites come from the two lectures given by Stanton E. Samenow that I have been able to find online. He is author of the book Inside the Criminal Mind.
It is truly difficult to imagine what a "garden variety" psychopath will do to "protect" themselves. Real world examples can be very revealing.
I was introduced to the concept of the psychopath when I got involved in Scientology in 1981. Hubbard called this personality type a "suppressive person." Such people normally operate (in public) at the tone level of "covert hostility" and in Scientology we are trained to recognize such people and either deal with them or avoid them.
There are the psychopath’s two cousins. The sociopath and the ‘non-evil’ sociopath. The second one is a normal acting mostly middle class person who doesn’t do anything wrong, although they lie and cheat well. But they aren’t killing people etc. They just don’t actually feel anything. Their one emotion is tension. Positive or negative. They tend to be serial cheaters because it keeps their tension up, without which they quickly descend into an abyss, as real emotions don’t mean anything to them. Better to feel the tension of a lie than emptiness. These people end up draining everyone around them. At the same time they are pretty good at ‘playing the game’. Saying the right thing, bringing a casserole, saying ‘aaah’ when they should. Long practice watching others actually emote has made them good actors. But they feel nothing.
It is funny or maybe not how things connect mysterious - the author at that long-time site - she is the daughter of the fella was on the ground during Operation Paperclip......tis a small world I reckon.
That LA Times article on Israelis is a fascinating primer. Culturally very similar to how the Lebos act in Australia. They treat fair dinkum Aussies as suckers, dumb whitey with the handshake. You look down & your arm is missing... This type of bloke only respects money and the backup 👊 , niceywishy washy is an offered throat to them.
Western culture, AND Western men, are perceived as weak.
Excellent article. I view psychopathy as a spectrum. Question: does a psychopath who adheres to a strong empathetic moral code exist? I could argue, yes: Zero empathy and strong morality (as formulaic empathy) can coexist.
Reading this, it strikes me that the Lobaczewski view of the general problem is only hemispherical in that it considers exogenous threats only, and largely disregards endogenous factors that by nature make people more susceptible to bamboozlement by outside bad actors. This reaction to your post popped into my mind because I'm in the midst of reading a much more recent psychiatrist's book, that by Christopher Palmer (https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Energy-Revolutionary-Understanding-Health/dp/1637741588/ref=sr_1_1) that provides a general theory as to why a lot of Lobaczewski's bad actors (and "freiers", too) arise in the first place. I think adding what Palmer has to say to what to Lobaczewski wrote, would flesh things out nicely and provide quite a few more avenues for attenuation of the perennial threat.
Hacking the Human
From Jason Bourne to the Reality of Reality
It is called... Behavioral Modification Science...
https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/hacking-the-human
This American Life produced a segment on Freiers back in the early 00s: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/222/transcript#act3
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Are people being misled by Israel by going "pondering moral evil in Israel's actions", when Israel would actually be biological evil at work? Thus, wasting time, mental resources, misled by a wrong lens which does not include enough knowledge, finally ending in taking apples for bananas. Question I am asking myself is if Israel is biological evil, because Netanyahou looks more like a child who'se been given an AK-47, some person playing with it's own poo
Sorry the above is not that much related to your article, but I enjoyed it much (your article!). To add a constructive comment: 1. I've noticed that manipulation nowadays may have credit. It provides "things", so "why not?!". Like the thug mentality, very attractive system for weak minds, for dealing with things nowadays, people lack positive and effective frameworks. I wished there were more examples of working normality. 2. There are people out there who dedicated their existence to manipulation and sometimes the level is beyond imagination. Always not enough prepared, we would first have to absorb the shock of contemplating a so huge amount of machiavellianism. I thank you because you sometimes point out towards this direction. Shocks absorbed many times. But I find it wrong that normal people - the norm - has to face this. Those psychos try to push that this is the norm, and we see very wounded people having litteraly no way of dealing with it - "forced to loose" and when loose they cannot deal with their defeat in addition.
great piece, Harrison... i'm in the process of reconciling some old trauma, some inflicted upon me, and some that i inflicted on others... working on a complete-amateur paper to pass along some useful info to others that are also working their way toward self-actualization... thank you... God bless.
here's a link if you want to see the progress... it's still in infancy though: https://www.christopher.news/old-news/next-project
Great to know some really do get it; the truth of evil and it's methods. The Universal mechanisms remain the same through time...'As much as things change, they stay the same.' Evil can only succeed when 'GOOD PEOPLE' do nothing or allow evil to stomp all over them.
Considering how difficult this subject can be to understand, this explanation is quite well-stated.
I was waiting for some real-world examples. But perhaps this is not the place for those. They can be very compelling, though. Some of my favorites come from the two lectures given by Stanton E. Samenow that I have been able to find online. He is author of the book Inside the Criminal Mind.
It is truly difficult to imagine what a "garden variety" psychopath will do to "protect" themselves. Real world examples can be very revealing.
I was introduced to the concept of the psychopath when I got involved in Scientology in 1981. Hubbard called this personality type a "suppressive person." Such people normally operate (in public) at the tone level of "covert hostility" and in Scientology we are trained to recognize such people and either deal with them or avoid them.
There are the psychopath’s two cousins. The sociopath and the ‘non-evil’ sociopath. The second one is a normal acting mostly middle class person who doesn’t do anything wrong, although they lie and cheat well. But they aren’t killing people etc. They just don’t actually feel anything. Their one emotion is tension. Positive or negative. They tend to be serial cheaters because it keeps their tension up, without which they quickly descend into an abyss, as real emotions don’t mean anything to them. Better to feel the tension of a lie than emptiness. These people end up draining everyone around them. At the same time they are pretty good at ‘playing the game’. Saying the right thing, bringing a casserole, saying ‘aaah’ when they should. Long practice watching others actually emote has made them good actors. But they feel nothing.
Have you taken the Mach IV test? It measures how “Machiavellian” you are. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/MACH-IV/
Hey - just posted a link to your place here:
https://emsnews.wordpress.com/2024/03/01/massive-blizzards-bury-west-coast-global-warming-isnt-global/#comment-932856
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It is funny or maybe not how things connect mysterious - the author at that long-time site - she is the daughter of the fella was on the ground during Operation Paperclip......tis a small world I reckon.
Ken