What leads to totalitarianism? Answer: narcissism
Definition of narcissism:
Psychology
selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.
Psychoanalysis
self-centeredness arising from failure to distinguish the self from external objects, either in very young babies or as a feature of mental disorder.
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Narcissists are frightened, fragile people.
SEE: “Narcissists’ Greatest Fears”
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[This author, Mattias Desmet, teaches and shows the devastations that occur to people who fear (among many other things he teaches). Fear affects people physically, mentally, psychologically, and spiritually. It destroys the choice to fear the Lord. It causes people to take drugs, medicines, listen to all kinds of ways to try to make themselves better, which results in making themselves worse. Fear, which comes from the government, terrible science, the news media, colleges and universities, and all over the place, causes people to be sick in many ways including physically, psychologically, mentally and spiritually. Such people have no opportunity to choose the fear of Lord. As the author states, they are a part of the mass. Who are the ones who brings totalitarianism? It is clearly the mass, the mass that consists of fearful narcissists. Narcissists love the government, believe the people in the government, and they (narcissists) are the ones who bring totalitarianism to the rest of us who believe in freedom.
Read this book and become educated beyond imagination. Richard Duke]
From the book The Psychology of Totalitarianism, by Mattias Desmet:
“When a child realizes his parents don’t know everything that will lead either to fear or creativity. That is because they can’t answer all of his “why” questions. Those who go the fear route become self-absorbed with protecting themselves and self-absorbed with themselves. This means they love more and more regulations in their life and less freedom. Who are these people? The narcissists.
Those who emancipate themselves learn to live their own lives and they don’t have to have rules and regulations and eat eggs and so forth to protect them and control them.
This author who is a psychologist is proving that there’s two choices in life: narcissism and the love for regulations to help his fear in life vs. The ability to respond to the uncertainty of life with creation (creativity) and with individuality and find words that resonate with Others. You will learn what Others, which is capitalized, means in this book. There are few Others in the digital age because you cannot see their faces, their expressions and etc. which is killing the human race. More than 50% of the people in the United States are narcissists. Read this book and you will have no argument with that statement. Except the narcissists who are brainwashed by fear and will disagree. Lovers of government and those who do everything the government tells them or most of the things the government tells them (among other reasons) are the narcissists. They can also be psychopaths or sociopaths, but they definitely ARE narcissists. (Narcissists, as you can see from the definition at the beginning of this post are also very personal.)
This author who is a psychologist is proving that there are two choices in life (with respect to what he is writing about here): (i) narcissism and the love for regulations to help people deal with fears in their lives [but makes fear worse] vs. (ii) the ability to respond to the uncertainty of life with creation (creativity) and individuality and find words that resonate with Others. The latter is not a narcissist. This book discusses Others, which is capitalized. Basically he shows Others are those we can see their expressions, movement in their faces, etc. There are no Others in the digital age because people cannot see their faces, their expressions and etc. This is helping which to reduce humanity. Apparently many of the people in the United States are narcissists. Read this book and you have no argument with that (previous sentence) statement. To repeat, lovers of government and those who do what the government tells them or most of the things the government tells them are narcissists. They can also be psychopaths or sociopaths but they definitely are narcissists.
Uncertainty turns into fear and the only psychological means available to combat that fear is narcissism and an endlessly rampant regulatory discourse (wanting rules and regulations to protect them).
The more people attempt to eliminate fear and uncertainty through rationality and rules, the more they collide with failure.
Language has a lot to do with how we operate. People are looking for the last word to bring final resolution but there is no last word. It does not exist. (Looking for the last word because they cannot deal with the uncertainties of life—thus they accept totalitarianism and totalitarians.)
[READ THE BELOW CAREFULLY. - JRD]
It is precisely at this point but man turns to the opposite of what he pursued in his desire for freedom: the absolute master – the totalitarian leader – who claims to have the last word.
This fear comes from lack and insecurity: narcissism.
Narcissism and regulation mania are fallacious solutions for the uncertainty and fear that language introduces into human relationships. They lead to social isolation and are ultimately self-destructive.
Narcissists need the last word, which does not exist. From a narcissist's lack and his insecurity he must have the last word. He must be protected from a virus, he must be told How not to get sick, which is usually through doctors and pills and medicine, and he must be told how to avoid problems in life, and how to control his life. He cannot control his life. His fear has either destroyed his life or is in the process of destroying his life. He is bringing on totalitarianism. Welcome to apparently more than 50% of Americans. (I wrote this last paragraph.)”
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[The Psychology of Totalitarianism book that I read appears to be one the most important top three books I've ever read, as of now. The only negative thing I know about this book is it further isolates a person who studies it from other people. They know nothing about this narcissism that is bringing totalitarianism; and most don’t care. — JRD]
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