From Wiki: Years later, as Marshal of Poland, Piłsudski recalled that Dzerzhinsky "distinguished himself as a student with delicacy and modesty. He was rather tall, thin and demure, making the impression of an ascetic with the face of an icon... Tormented or not, this is an issue history will clarify; in any case this person did not know how to lie."
Oct 21, 2023·edited Oct 21, 2023Liked by Harrison Koehli
Very interesting article (and thanks for the shout out). This helps me crystallize in my mind a type of person with whom I am quite familiar, as there were many such people in and around the social justice co-op where I once lived.
They were usually the children of affluent parents, who were often ivy-league professors, architects, or similarly successful. The kids were brighter than the average person, though apparently less so than their parents. All the ones I knew were white and most were male. Several of them went into art school, despite lacking a passion for art. They seemed to have this intense fear of their own mediocrity, and I suspected then that art offered a level of subjectivity that made failure less apparent. They would gravitate to really nebulous, conceptual art that's difficult to objectively evaluate, and then they would eventually abandon this and change their major to Don't Be Racist—a discipline at which failure is basically impossible.
And yet—paradoxically—failure is also guaranteed for the adherent of a church which offers no salvation. It makes sense, then, that the white person who would persevere in such a hostile environment would have such entrenched self-loathing, autoflagellance becomes its own objective. He takes his badness as a given, so the ideology attracts him, resonates with him, and is reifying.
But then he drags his cohort down with him. He'll rigorously defend the most unreasonable demands from nonwhites, and champion the most anti-white positions, proud of his own contrition on behalf of his unwilling peers. He has found a way to vitality and purpose, at the expense of his own kind.
Some of these descriptions came uncomfortably close to my own reality.
I think the general conclusion from all of this is that the psychopath can take advantage of other personality types that are seriously out of touch by giving them more of what they think they need.
While a more rational person will notice that he is being manipulated, the less rational will miss it, or else convince himself that he should live with it. Any serious failure to live with the truth will reduce the survivability of the person or group who is involved in the deception. Reducing the amount of deceit in human life is important for its survival.
Both seemed to have similar style and demeanor, and somewhat muddled political affiliations. Garrett was a full-time caretaker for his quadruple-amputee fiancée, and Dolloff's wife appears to have WIlliams Syndrome, or is otherwise developmentally deformed in some way.
Garret was at an Austin BLM rally dressed like a militia member, ran up to a surrounded Uber driver while waving an AK-47, and the driver shot him dead. Dolloff was an "unlicensed" subcontractor hired through Pinkerton by a local Denver news station covering some patriot rally. He got in a fight with one of the pro-police protesters while "working," the guy slapped him, he drew a pistol, the unarmed protester backed up and sprayed him with bear mace and he shot the guy dead.
These stories were both insane. After Garret died, His girlfriend kept going to rallies and would throw herself on the ground and fish out in front of the police as some kind of "resistance." Garret's shooter was convicted of murder, and Dolloff had his charges dropped completely (?!?).
These guys do not read as cluster-B nutcases, from what we can glean from the few details we know about them, and their physiognomy. Interesting that they would both be drawn to similar, unbelievably rash and reckless behavior, and something about their similar choice of partner seems significant...
I am reading The Triumph of Provocation by Mackiewicz. Piłsudski does also reveal a deep Personality Disorder. Antoni Kepinski evidently is one of the fine authors no publisher brings forward in English.
From Wiki: Years later, as Marshal of Poland, Piłsudski recalled that Dzerzhinsky "distinguished himself as a student with delicacy and modesty. He was rather tall, thin and demure, making the impression of an ascetic with the face of an icon... Tormented or not, this is an issue history will clarify; in any case this person did not know how to lie."
Very interesting article (and thanks for the shout out). This helps me crystallize in my mind a type of person with whom I am quite familiar, as there were many such people in and around the social justice co-op where I once lived.
They were usually the children of affluent parents, who were often ivy-league professors, architects, or similarly successful. The kids were brighter than the average person, though apparently less so than their parents. All the ones I knew were white and most were male. Several of them went into art school, despite lacking a passion for art. They seemed to have this intense fear of their own mediocrity, and I suspected then that art offered a level of subjectivity that made failure less apparent. They would gravitate to really nebulous, conceptual art that's difficult to objectively evaluate, and then they would eventually abandon this and change their major to Don't Be Racist—a discipline at which failure is basically impossible.
And yet—paradoxically—failure is also guaranteed for the adherent of a church which offers no salvation. It makes sense, then, that the white person who would persevere in such a hostile environment would have such entrenched self-loathing, autoflagellance becomes its own objective. He takes his badness as a given, so the ideology attracts him, resonates with him, and is reifying.
But then he drags his cohort down with him. He'll rigorously defend the most unreasonable demands from nonwhites, and champion the most anti-white positions, proud of his own contrition on behalf of his unwilling peers. He has found a way to vitality and purpose, at the expense of his own kind.
Some of these descriptions came uncomfortably close to my own reality.
I think the general conclusion from all of this is that the psychopath can take advantage of other personality types that are seriously out of touch by giving them more of what they think they need.
While a more rational person will notice that he is being manipulated, the less rational will miss it, or else convince himself that he should live with it. Any serious failure to live with the truth will reduce the survivability of the person or group who is involved in the deception. Reducing the amount of deceit in human life is important for its survival.
I always wondered about these two guys, Garret Foster and Matthew Dolloff:
https://reason.com/2020/07/27/the-libertarian-party-mourns-garrett-foster-activist-killed-at-a-black-lives-matter-protest/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8832341/Security-guard-Matthew-Dolloff-shot-Patriot-Muster-protester-attended-Occupy-Denver-rallies.html
Both seemed to have similar style and demeanor, and somewhat muddled political affiliations. Garrett was a full-time caretaker for his quadruple-amputee fiancée, and Dolloff's wife appears to have WIlliams Syndrome, or is otherwise developmentally deformed in some way.
Garret was at an Austin BLM rally dressed like a militia member, ran up to a surrounded Uber driver while waving an AK-47, and the driver shot him dead. Dolloff was an "unlicensed" subcontractor hired through Pinkerton by a local Denver news station covering some patriot rally. He got in a fight with one of the pro-police protesters while "working," the guy slapped him, he drew a pistol, the unarmed protester backed up and sprayed him with bear mace and he shot the guy dead.
These stories were both insane. After Garret died, His girlfriend kept going to rallies and would throw herself on the ground and fish out in front of the police as some kind of "resistance." Garret's shooter was convicted of murder, and Dolloff had his charges dropped completely (?!?).
These guys do not read as cluster-B nutcases, from what we can glean from the few details we know about them, and their physiognomy. Interesting that they would both be drawn to similar, unbelievably rash and reckless behavior, and something about their similar choice of partner seems significant...
I am reading The Triumph of Provocation by Mackiewicz. Piłsudski does also reveal a deep Personality Disorder. Antoni Kepinski evidently is one of the fine authors no publisher brings forward in English.
typo above?
"he is a conqueror rather than a conqueror"