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Nov 08, 2009 4:27 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: Scary Treaty On Global Warming -Devil's Advocate |
Thomas Holford
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Lamar Morgan sayeth:
> Is there anything that can be done to educate the progressive liberals who are apparently so misguided that they would willingly attempt to save a species of fish and at the same time deny dry land in California water.
This was the core question that I set out to answer when I tried to understand the different realities of "the left" and "the right" (or the Sophists and the Socrateseans).
My conclusion is that "progressive liberals" will likely never change because they live in a closed reality inside of their heads.
Their philosophy results in their psychology, and their psychology is narcissism.
Everyone has some degree of self awareness, but extreme narcissism is formally recognized as a psychiatric pathology known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
There are two very troubling of aspects of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
1. It can be induced in people, typically by difficult childhood environments or experiences like parental abandonment, divorce, alcoholism, etc.
2. It is virtually incurable. There is no reliable way known to recover a pathological narcissist once they go over the edge. Once a narcissist, always a narcissist.
The narcissistic reality built into the heads of people with NPD essentially makes them uneducable. They perceive that they are "the smartest person in the room", and therefore, no one is going to tell them anything IMPORTANT that they don't already know or need to know.
The way that narcissism works is that narcissistic people need a source of what is called "narcissistic supply". In other words, they need to surround themselves with people who will continually remind them of how wonderful they are. People who decline to be enablers or sycophants for narcissists inevitably find themselves ignored or excluded.
People who actively seek to diminish or undermine the narcissist's grandiose self-image often find themselves the objects of active hostility from the narcissist.
The modern liberal culture supports and reinforces the society wide tendency to greater and greater narcissism. Think of "self-esteem" programs in the schools. Think of "American Idol". Think of Oprah and her daily parade of pathetic, blubbering victims. Me! Me! Me! It's all about me.
Sadly, we live in culture of narcissism. "Progressive liberalism" is a political ideology that panders to, fosters and exploits narcissism.
Neither are going to go away.
The only response I can think of is to:
A: ) Recognize narcissism as real, intractable, and closely interwined with liberal politics.
B:) Call it out and expose it in all its multiplicity of forms, and all of its shallow pretension.
As Rush Limbaugh says: "We don't want to get along with liberals; we want to defeat them."
End of rant.
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