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Bless America's avatar

This is simply fantastic. I am speechless. Which is rare. The notion of " collective madness" has been with me for a very long time. To be able to see an erudite analysis is a privilege. The dark side of the totalitarian nature of the " pro-Palestinian" chaos ( what a central term!) is its alliance with the least " progressive " of cultures and creeds, an actually " regressive" trait of these " progressives ". Not just semantics, but the contemplation of the horror of a Nazi-oriented supremacist culture that finds violence and cruelty to be moral. Atheists and intellectuals allied with fundamentalist fanatics whose god dictated final unmovable superstitions in the 7th century. I wonder if Lucy could someday attempt an analysis of Jew-hatred from a psychological viewpoint. My intuition tells me it is linked to a moral burden coming into a slow evolution way ahead of time. People remain savage, somewhere.

Well, I wasn't speechless after all. Still, very admiring.

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Cassandra anonymous's avatar

Antisemitism relies on the bog standsrd psychological defenses of displacement, projection, projective identification and splitting.

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Bless America's avatar

Yes. Projection in general is a fascinating concept. Defence from guilt, blame?

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Cassandra anonymous's avatar

Defenses protect us against any intolerably painful emotion. Guilt snd shame are up there.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Illuminating comments.

Thank you.

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Scott's avatar

Best I’ve heard!

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Noah Otte's avatar

I read the original version of this article by Lucy and it’s excellent! Indeed female mental illness and modern social justice activism go hand and hand. This is why many social justice activists behave like unhinged maniacs. The behaviors they display fit the diagnostics for a number of mental disorders. Lucy herself experienced this when she joined the leftist cult. Thankfully, she got out of it just in time. Progressive activists engage in black and white thinking, have a need for attention, need constant validation, can’t see complexity, think that anything including violence is just in the name of the “cause”, etc. This is exactly why the progressive movement is failing and social progress has stalled. It’s also why the Democrats keep losing election after election and conservatives have dominated American politics since 2016. The hard and far left make the left as a whole look really bad. The Democratic Party needs to denounce and expel progressives and leftists from their party. People like AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Zohran Mamdani have no business being in American politics. If you are in the progressive social justice cult, I pray you will find your way out soon.

Lucy makes an excellent point as to where this all comes from. It’s because 82% of primary school teachers are female and socio-emotional learning is emphasized in schools these days. Plus, girls outperform boys in reading. Thus how we got to this point today. None of this is to say women or feminism is bad. As Lucy explains here, this is because of broader social and cultural forces. If we want to change things, here is what must be done. We must shift those broader social and cultural forces. Mental health and women’s mental health in particular we need to put more money into. Activism itself must be given a new playbook and completely overhauled. Men must have greater representation among primary school teachers. Rational thought must replace socio-emotional learning as the primary focus of our education. Boys must be assisted in achieving parity with girls in reading. Lastly, grievance studies must be eradicated in all universities. Here’s a little reading list for everyone to learn about the dangers presented by the far-left and how insane western social justice activism truly is these days:

• Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy by Andy Ngo

• BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution by Mike Gonzalez

• Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

• We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of the New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi

• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

• The Reckoning: How the Democrats Betrayed Women and Girls by Kara Dansky

• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier

• Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump by Robby Soave

• The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad

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Cassandra anonymous's avatar

Borderline disorder often comes with a heavy infusion of narcissistic traits—these are not separate phenomena but most often blended in a way that makes it very hard for sufferers to recognize they need help. I know the truth, I have all the answers, my version of reality is the correct one that precludes considering others. And if others don’t accept this or give mw what I want, they are bad evil and defective.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Definitely a reread.

Interesting points that help explain (to me) the lunatic behaviour of university students, academia, public institutions and school boards.

My friends and I are not crazy.

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Liora Jacob's avatar

Thank you for sharing this excellent analysis.

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קרן ויצמן's avatar

Thank you for giving just another clear angle of what is happening today. So much of what you describe is at the core of woke and woke activism; the celebration of 72 genders, of pedofilia and mutilation of persons. You made it make sense. It is the best explanation to explain the madness.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

Great discussion. Western societies have made mental illness something to be celebrated, not something to be treated. It’s a pervasive problem.

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Barry's avatar

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Treatment & compassion? Not going to happen, rarely on the individual level and impossible at the mass level. At the mass level, the delusions are constantly reinforced by all the players for each other. The timeline would be too long in the current culture of very rapid change - driven by density of population & pervasive social media/tech. To break the reinforcement requires the intense intervention on the order of catastrophe or totalitarianism. Catastrophe - long disruption of electrical energy infrastructure. Totalitarianism - Islam.

The expansion of Islam in the mass delusion so accurately described in this presentation could be an unconscious realization of the need for a totalitarianism - a massive force - to create a mass intervention capable of shutting off the incestual reinforcement - inertia - driving society.

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Ronda Wells MD's avatar

Outstanding analysis! And 💯 correct. Unfortunately Cluster B often are unable to recognize the truth about their disorders.

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Eim HaBonim Smeicha's avatar

This is a fantastic, well reasoned, and articulate piece!

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Eim HaBonim Smeicha's avatar

This is a fantastic, well reasoned, and articulate piece!

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Cathy's avatar

This is helpful info. I have been wondering what I did with my Abnormal Psych book , but this article puts all the relevent explanations in one concise document. Thank you!

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Dinah Bucholz's avatar

I mostly agree with this, but isn't it splitting to paint the whole entire left, which you refer to interchangeably with liberals, as mentally ill? You did mention the far-left at the outset, but if you meant that you're referring strictly to the far-left in the entire article, it would have been good to clarify that.

I think the hyperpolarization of our society is threatening to tear us apart. As a politically independent person, I know a lot of liberals and a lot of conservatives who are emotionally and mentally healthy and also compassionate and kind and who abhor the kind of behavior shown by the pro-Palestinian activists. In fact, there are people on the center-left who are even pro-Israel. So I think the nuances do matter here.

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Lucy's avatar

Hi, thank you. And I agree it’s important not to generalise. I tried to be precise not to paint all liberals or the entire left this way. For example, I specified ‘On the Far-Left, this reflex has become orthodoxy’, and I added that these dynamics ‘don’t define progressive movements’ even if they’ve seeped into them. Still, in such a heated climate it can be worth repeating that not everyone on the left engages in these patterns. As someone who came from the left, I believe it’s crucial that liberals, moderates/centrists call this out, not only to separate ourselves from it, but to make clear that these extremes do not define the left as a whole.

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Dinah Bucholz's avatar

Completely agree! Thank you for engaging with me and for understanding!

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Steven Brizel's avatar

This is a superb analysis of what ails the left .Those of us who grew up in the 1960s watched with horror as the movement against participation on the Vietnam War which was also spearheaded by those in colleges who did not have to worry about their draft numbers segued from protests to violence to stealing government documents to blowing up buildings

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RacheliGee's avatar

YES! I have been thinking this for a while now. The gaslighting, the warping of facts to make the victim into the aggressor, the delusions... I have been saying to myself they have been acting like Narcissists for a while now. Thank you for putting this so eloquently and easy to understand. When you have known someone with a cluster B disorder, unfortunately you don't realize the signs until it's too late but once you know them, you can spot them from a mile away.

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