Psychology 101

The irony being that those who deny they have a psychology are the ones that expose it, just as those who deny human nature display it.
To conceal something you must first acknowledge and know it. A liar who doesn't believe in "truth" is a liar who is exposed by his own idiocy.
How can you change or conceal; what you deny existence to?
Declaring it so doesn't make it go away.

Those that have no ability to read people dismiss it as superstitious talk...explaining why they cannot understand themselves and so cannot change what they are doing to produce their issues.
On a simple level, how does a child know you are happy, or sad?
Can it read you mind/
Does it have supernatural powers?
How do dogs sense your demeanour, immediately knowing if you are angry or not?
They observe your actions.
The mind is exposed through actions, most of which are not under your conscious control.
It takes a talented actor to control his outer expressions and none ever accomplish it perfectly.  

Example of how these imbeciles telegraph who and what they are, and what they underlying motives are:
Example iamretarded, since he volunteers himself.
Read his signature on ILP.

John Fowles wrote:

He was like a man who wanted to change all; and could not; so burned with his impotence; and had only me, an infinitely small microcosm to convert or detest.

Now read his posts.
Who is trying to change the world and feels impotent?
Who is the one using others, as a small microcosm to convert and detest, identifying them as detestable "objectivists"?
How these objectivists are guilty of what he is not, is a matter of self-deciet.
Who is trying to convert, as he admitted recently to Maia.
Who was a Christian, then a Marxist, and is a postmodern?

He wants to change a world he believes is unchangable....so he "burns with impotence".
Trapped in his own self-contradicting linguistic contrivances, he sees them everywhere other than in himself.
He is their source, but he cannot admit it.  

He is describing himself in that signature.
Why must everything become ideological and a product of social engineering, well, because he wants to conceal his ideological and social engineering motives.
Does he ever offer an argument?
Nope...all he does its doubt, undermine, slander...a feminine tactic, when he isn't declaring, announcing, claiming, with no arguments at all, - other than moralizations - and always performing to an audience.
Does he offer an alternative, a counter-argument, a better explanation?
No.
He simply undermines. Repeats the same mantra, like a prayer; mocks, insults and then accuses others of ad hom when they reciprocate. all he does is negate.
All he does is project, himself, so that even the obtuse can see who and what he is....and then he tries to hide by declaring the self as non-existent, as it is but an expression of deterministic forces.....Ha!!!
He's not overcome his naive idealism, he's only learned tricks to escape...
The more he talks about others the more he exposes himself to others....because there is no self to know so he can't conceal what he denies.

This is the comedy of it.
The tragedy is...he's not the only one.
study those who lack any self-awarness...or empathy, for whatever clinical or psychological reasons.
their insults are about themselves. They think they are accusing and insulting others but all they know is themselves, so all they can do is attack themselves, expose themselves.their deepest insecurities, fears, their true opinion of themselves.
There's no need for magic, or empathy, they do so clearly and obviously.

Of course, there's an ulterior motive to this need to conceal oneself from the eyes of others.
It is a desperate cry for help.

The diagnostician becomes his last hope.
Of the diagnostician fails, or refuses to help, or simply cannot help what nature has produced....he hates the one who failed him.

Know thyself is a Delphic command because not everyone can achieve it, and it cannot be achieved completely, totally.
Most cannot ever know themselves, or even accept what they do know of themselves.
This is why nihilism is so popular.
Power of Nil.

Good youtube channel,,,,, i like it

^ Maybe it's not so much ignorance but a deliberate simplification of the world, presented by the mass-(social)-media, to direct the thinking of the population towards a desired end.
Those elites are not part of the society they have infested, it's part of their DNA to destroy the host.

McGilchrist is providing an explanation that is believing in the "good nature" of all participants
But regardless, it does shine a light on how the mechanism behind our thinking works and/or is being manipulated.

McGilchrist, like nay intellectual, must conceal the implications of what he is presenting if he hopes to have an large audience.
I think Nietzsche did the same, knowing how he would be misunderstood and even appropriated by the very ones he was exposing, integrating his insights into a more virulent strain of the same dis-ease.
It is how viruses adapt, evolve.

Collective Unconscious = physical memory stored as DNA, cellular/organ memory.
Primary source.
The secondary source is experiential or learned - first- or second-hand memories.

Body/Mind
The two sources of memory often come into conflict as immediate stimulations may require the mind to override automated, impulsive, reactions.
This is the source of gene/meme synthesis that may develop into body/mind dissonance if the mind is affected by a nihilistic ideology/dogma that does not merely usurp the body's impulses but contradicts them - nihilistic inversions.
The irony being that nihilism necessitates free-will when many nihilists negate - deny, reject - free-will as they negate everything, motivated by a desire to escape responsibility, or to be held accountable, or to be perceived as what they are, viz., be known by another more than they know and/or understand themselves; negate the source of insecurity being exposed produces.
Being exposed is herd psychology, since species that gather in herds become uniform in appearance and behaviour so as to confuse predators. Being exposed for predators is different. It is the fear of failing if they are perceived before they accomplish a task requiring secrecy.

Newfound awareness does not necessarily result in anything positive. Much of the time, in fact, it's dangerous. Many are unequipped to know what to do with it, what these changes mean to them or how to make use of them in wise or pragmatic ways. Most self-destruct from it or find ways to escape from it. Or they will completely misunderstand it for something it isn't. This form of awareness means one has been thrust into nihilism, uprooted from thier previous form of self, and with the test to find where they must reorient themselves again or remain drifting in the abyss.

1- Don't Try
Trying expresses need/desire; need/desire exposes weakness.
He who needs/desires does not deserve what he believes with gratify/satisfy his need/desire.
When we do not try what is accomplished is within our range of power - we deserve it.
Trying necessitates effort and luck, as that which is not deserved - has to be attained after great effort - may be gained but not maintained, after the fact.
The degree to which we struggle - try, are tried - exposes the degree of our need/desire in relation to our accessible energies.
When you leave your comfort zone, to the degree that you do so, in an effort to outperform another, will determine the amount of effort it will necessitate to preserve with you've attained.
Trying also exhibits an attempt to gain what you do not truly need/desire. What feels comfortable is what is truly needed and desired.
We try when we succumb to peer pressure and strive to gain what we do not truly need/desire.
We are performing, not acting on an internal impulse but in accordance with an external demand.
For example....trying to become a great writer, artist, means you are not meant to become a great writer or artist but only a mediocre imitator of greatness and artistry.


2- Don't try too hard to fit in
Herd psychology is the desire to belong to the largest herd possible; to be surrounded, immersed, in a sea of bodies, engulfed by their womb-like mass; a desire which can only be fulfilled by mediocrity, the middle point attained.
The level of need to fit in will determine the level of self-denial, self-repressino that will be necessary for the achievement of this goal of mediocrity.
Many nihilists want to fit-in, denying self altogether so as to belong to the largest group possible - the largest herd is the safest.
Modern politicians and their populist politics cultivates self-negation as a prerequisite for becoming popular, for being appreciated by the majority.    
   

3- Tell the Truth
Truth refers to the objective world, which is anathema to the herd that wants to escape into their private world, willing only to make compromises to the herd so as to create securing matrices of itner-subjectivity to tie themselves within - safe from a world they cannot cope with.
Intimacy is impossible because the truth - even your subjective truth - will be intolerable to another. the larger the group you desire to belong to the larger the lie you must endure and repeat.  


4- Failure is also Freedom
This returns us to my triangulation.
How does a conscious mind evaluate its accuracy? By trying and then adjusting, after accurately identifying the source of his failure.
A failure to identify the reason of its failure only propagates it indefinitely.


5- Don't seek Comfort above all else
Hedonism produced atrophy.
When comfort is the intent then lies and self-deceptions are all you require to immerse yourself in the herd.
War is the father of invention - Heraclitus.. Ananke - need, necessity - is the primordial goddess replaced by Eros, a movement towards hedonism which ushered din the end of Hellenic greatness.


6- Write to Knock the Giants off their Pedestals
There are no sacred cows, no indubitable idols, no divine icons....all is imperfect....all can be overcome, transcended.
Personality worship is a symptom of emasculation - a maintenance of infancy, a feminine disposition.
challenge authority, but respect it first. Understand what you are trying to replace.
Nothing deserves to be placed on a pedestal.
The idol is meant to inspire envy, so as to surpass them, and not to pull them down, as a womanly disposition would; do not undermine but surpass.    


7- Write because it gives you a Buzz
Do anything because you need to do it,. not because you are expected to do it.
Do not act to be acknowledged, but because you must - because it is who and what you are.
The act must be an expression of your spirit.


8- Fiction is an Improvement of Life
Fiction must be positive if it wants to seduce other minds.
Life may be too much or not enough.....so fiction must be created to deal with those who seek relief from reality.
This is why art is dangerous. It created dependency in those who find existence unbearable. Dependence is a necessary ingredient of manipulation and exploitation. ​
Here the artist is selling his craft.
​An artist must reveal or conceal in order to make an audience to perceive what he wishes them to notice.
Here what is revealed is the inescapable desire to pass on, to share, one's experiences - a necessity imposed upon the living by death.


9- Gender Relations is the biggest damn failure
Males want to own, women to possess to engulf to synthesize with another - they want more than the body, they want mind.....a man's spirit.
Paternalism made gender relations the only subject. Males are now preoccupied on how to attract and hold onto women, how to seduce and please women....and can think of nothing of importance.


10- Cherish your Solitude
To be truly yourself you must be along.
Solitude is independence, a sign of power.
Power attracts those who have less of it, and so power is threatened by its own attractiveness.


11- Has Modernity killed individuality?
Post Modernity would be impossible without Modernity laying down the ideological foundations - without the French Revolution there would be no Russian Revolution.
Enlightenment, they call it. It began the process of converting spiritual nihilism, i.e., Abrahamism, into secular nihilism, ideological rejection of reality - rejection of objective reality.
Modernity was the historical process of transforming the absent absolute, perceived as good/evil, into its secular binary forms, i.e., 1/0, one/nil.

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Uncertainty can be a trigger for nihilism. Dwelling on the unknown is being trapped in a stagnate subjective psycho-spiritual condition which inhibits personal growth and productivity. Most also have no identity independent from herd identity, and so if they are unable to validate their own worth within the social collective, they will immediately collapse into nihilistic despair, having no personal values or inner strength to support them. The average mind cannot cope with itself, cannot cope with solitude, and so when left on their own, they instantly fall into despair and lose their way. They demand answers and absolutes and resolutions etc. They need to be instructed how to be human.

Superior and healthy minds are productive, active, pursuing of goals and prospects, embracing the unknown as an exciting challenge. Only weak minds will become entangled in these webs of nihilism and uncertainty, unable to create a value-system of their own. The postmodern psychology is precisely this stunted condition of being consumed by the unknown and uncertainty, unable to accept the imperfection of truth.

All forms of symbolic markings, all forms of physical mutilation indicate an internal trauma desperate to be externalized.
The placement of the symbolic self-mutilation indicates the source of the trauma.
Tribal tattoos, circumcision, ceremonial piercings and all forms of scarring all indicate a desire to mark oneself as distinct and belonging to a powerful collective - in other words it indicates a profound vulnerability to external circumstances; a signal to push away what frightens him, or a sign of exemption representing his non-threatening stance towards that which makes him threatened.

A Russian POW begs for forgiveness from the Ukrainian people. “If someone came on my land, I would do exactly what Ukrainians are doing—and I’d be right.” Says people people back home have been brainwashed—including himself.

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They really like that kind of propaganda.
Besides it being likely staged, it provides some insight into how they tick.
I'd be kind of disgusted by such behavior from my enemy.
They see it differently, they see something to exploit, something to use to their advantage.
That's why every country run by them is ultimately doomed to fail, they need a constant influx of fresh cattle because the old ones are not kept in a sustainable manner.

They don't want you as an enemy to fight but as a slave to gaslight, guilt-trip and exploit.

It's against the Geneva conventions to use prisoners of war in this manner....but nobody cares 'cause its Russians and heterosexual white males...so the standards shift.

Always judge an individual by his actions, choices, never by what other people say about him, the rumours the gossip.
An individuals actions expose his essence; his choices expose his judgements and objectives.

As such...I judge Putin and his motives not base no what some retards have to say about him but by what he is doing.

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When modern psychology speaks of “personality disorders” they are using an idealized, theoretical individual as a standard. Psychologists are society’s gatekeepers, evaluating those who divert from a specific culture’s theoretical ideal citizen: whoever is contrary, and/or disruptive, to a group’s welfare – the foundations of ethics, identifying such individuals as “immoral” and/or destructive.
Conversely we can speak of sexual deviants because the stadards here is objective, e.g., genealogy and nature and the primary utility of sex and sexual behaviour, but when we speak of “sociopathy” and/or “personality disorders” we are using a specific memeology, i.e., ideology, as our standard of evaluation; juxtaposing a theoretically ideal citizen – member of society – with an individual’s inherited personæ and/or his/her adopted cultivated character, i.e., socioeconomic performance; oftentimes memetic objectives and stadards contradict genetic objectives and stadards, therefore a sociopath or a an individual with a disorder is a product of natural selection, when natural selection is intervened and forced into social selection dynamics.
Personality emerges from inherited potentials, cultivated/nurtured and gradually established environmentally as organ hierarchies which are then forced to adapt to social circumstances, i.e., cultural environments. This is a necessity only shared by social species that must adapt their inherited drives and potentials within group dynamics, viz., organ hierarchies adjusted mentally/wilfully to socioeconomic hierarchies and cultural ideologies.

Freudian contexts:
Genetic – Id; Memetic – Superego; Will – Ego.
ID = gene, libido; Superego = meme, morality, culture; Ego = lucid self, "I". Will.
ID + Superego + Ego = Subjective – Self. All in relation to world = objective reality.
Id expresses animal, primal need – physical/body – and desire, excess – mind; unconscious judgement, impulse.
Superego expresses group dynamics, dependence on others, the greater "I", identification with otherness, in-group; unconscious judgement/choice. Shame, guilt.
Ego expresses will – direction, conscious judgement/choice.
Will is focus of organic energies – both conscious and unconscious.
The body's unconscious judgement/preference (Id) – founded on evolved needs/desires – may be contradicted by the mind's unconscious judgement/preference – founded on wants, synthesizing needs/desires and adjusting them to group socioeconomic/cultural factors.
The conscious mind then compares these two sources of data with reality choosing accordingly.
Id is asexual, primal, hedonistic; superego is feminine, concerned with its reputation, how it fits into group dynamics, fitting in, inclusive, emotional; ego is masculine, concerned with reality, discriminating, rational, willful.
In my own world-view there are two sources of data/information input – genetic/physical/body (DNA) – and experiential memory – memetic/mind; both remaining below consciousness. These two sources of data, i.e., memories, are then constantly juxtaposed, compared, relating to a fluctuating, dynamic reality, i.e., world; depending on which dominates, at any given place/circumstance and in any given moment in time, determines a judgement's quality and the conscious mind's subsequent choice.

Satyr wrote:

It's against the Geneva conventions to use prisoners of war in this manner....but nobody cares 'cause its Russians and heterosexual white males...so the standards shift.

The only "standard" is who is the biggest explicit victim, once that is established anything is permitted... They "don't want war" but will "raise your sons and daughters" if you dare act against their implicit dominion.

Impulso Oscuro wrote:

Satyr wrote:

It's against the Geneva conventions to use prisoners of war in this manner....but nobody cares 'cause its Russians and heterosexual white males...so the standards shift.

The only "standard" is who is the biggest explicit victim, once that is established anything is permitted... They "don't want war" but will "raise your sons and daughters" if you dare act against their implicit dominion.

I guess they are admitting that they are leading a constant war against the people inside their dominion as well.
Having the children raised as much as possible without their parents influence.

In all conflicts of opinion an external shared stadards is used to determine which is superior and which inferior, which is more probable and which less so.
This method is ancient.
Moderns/Postmoderns have "forgotten" - intentionally or wilfully - so as to make their opinions more plausible or respectable, unable to use the shared standard to validate them.

Their "philosophy" is fake. They are not friends of wisdom they are its enemy, pretending to be friendly to "destroy" by gaining trust and undermine them from the "inside".
You see this technique and recognize it as 'feminine" relying only or manipulating words, or gossip or replacing the "forgotten" standard with popularity, using emotion to validate what they cannot rationally.

Is this an effective escape?
Ha!!
You can fool a man but can you fool a world you deny?
Can you trick nature with words?
We enter the realm of magic and witches/warlocks.
All those superstitious charlatans that emerge and are taken seriously in times of turmoil....like when empires decline, ending a "world...order".

Hocus pokus...abracadabra...
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Regret?
All have regrets, except for hypocrites and cowards. They regret nothing - feel no guilt and no shame about anything, because they've transcended this, as a remnant of a religious superstitious cult.
Guilt and shame didn't exist before religion, for such liars. It was "invented" to exploit them, and they've liberated themselves from their own conscience to never make a mistake again.
How can anyone make a mistake when there's no objective standard, and when everything is reduced to words with no reference other than to other words?
Those that claim not to regret anything are those who deny they've ever made maitakes - like those who deny free-will.
How can anyone who believes everything he lives was inevitable have any regrets?
How can he correct himself if nothing he's done has ever been of his own volition and all was and is inevitable?

Regret means that one recognizes his own responsibility in the consequences of his actions and choices, and that he is able to live with them, and by living with them contemplate the degree of his own culpability, correcting all future actions and choices to achieve different outcomes.