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Rob (c137)'s avatar

It's a sick pyramid of control and I hope people becoming aware about it will make it shrink or disappear. 🙏

Her description of psychopathy is actually the description for narcissism, which comes from wounding like she described here.

"Anneke states that psychopathy comes from the fear that you are unlovable, not the light, not the innocent child. You then seek the substitute for love: release from fear through violence. When you come into the world, she says, you have spirit and that’s reflected by the people who love you. When it’s not reflected back, and no one recognizes your innocence, you think that something’s wrong with you, you’re bad, and don’t see that it’s their limitation."

A psychopath is not this. They basically have no affective empathy, but a lot of cognitive empathy which is the empathy calculated by following rules and expectations. They don't feel fear the same way as described above.

Here's a good video on the issue of empathy in autism vs psychopathy.

https://youtu.be/TajItoz3ftI

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Mathew Crawford's avatar

I'm glad to see more attention on trauma based mi d control, which I believe, along with narrative warfare, to be the true most dangerous weapons in the world.

We all have a choice to become the monster, fight the monster, or go along to get along (often "out of sight, out of mind").

One thing I discovered in my research on the Nazi cult is that Hitler had a twisted sadomasochostic sex life in which he asked women to kick or otherwise hurt him when he got naked. He may have roped his niece into this. She came to live with him at 16 or 17 and killed herself, broken, around four years later.

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