Posted on 10/12/2023 1:52:28 AM PDT by spirited irish
A recent CIA recruitment video valorized the Cluster B traits of narcissistic identity obsession, self-righteousness, and craving for affirmation. “I am a woman of color. I am a mom. I am a cisgender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder,” intones the featured CIA analyst as the camera pans over her diversity awards. “I used to struggle with impostor syndrome, but at 36, I refuse to internalize misguided, patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be.”In a Cluster B society, psychological disorders are job qualifications rather than problems to be solved; ideology replaces competence as a marker of distinction.
There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down. Healthy debate is replaced by activist hysterics. Speech is declared violence; violence is excused as speech. Masculinity is condemned as “toxic,” while men in dresses are celebrated in the public square. It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown.
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Creeping society, or creepy society. When the CIA goofball herein goes off the rails, she will click her heals and say; Well, you knew I shouldn’t have been out of the house.
This is an important essay. I have observed many of the same demonstrations in the various societal institutions with which I intersect.
Double plus ungood.
bfl
The writer is correct, traits of the cluster B pathologies are becoming normalized. Driven by politicized media where dysfunction is not only tolerated but affirmed. Consider the rise of “influencers” as examples to follow. and even emulate.
Satan knows your name and calls you by your sin.
God knows your sin and calls you by your name.
Traits of individuals easily manipulated
“Narcissism, Self-Righteousness, Obsession, Craving Affirmation”: That has characterized the CIA practically from the day of its founding.
“psychological disorders” will be defined by the State and not psychologists. Anyone against the State will be determined to have a mental defect and must be incarcerated.
“There is a creeping sense that our society has turned upside-down.”
A “creeping sense” of the blatantly obvious might be another symptom that things are off the rails.
The embedded CIA recruitment video explains why the recent events in Israel were such a surprise!
“It feels as if we are in the midst of a society-wide mental breakdown.”
Not “feels”, we ARE in a societal meltdown.
“”In a Cluster B society, psychological disorders are job qualifications rather than problems to be solved”
Excellent way of putting it!
“What happened? Why have old standards suddenly vanished in favor of narcissism, psychodrama, and moral theatrics—all in the name of “care”?”
See my tag line.
“And they have slowly transformed our institutions into what psychologist Andrzej Łobaczewski calls a “pathocracy,” or rule by psychological dysfunction. “
Or what I call “pathological compassion”. The kind of compassion that destroys both the receiver and the giver... and the broader society.
This is a truly spot-on article and analysis.
Thanks for posting it.
Godlessness in the Last Days
1But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. 8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. 9But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.
2 Timothy 3
Amen!
If we were truly a patriarchy, she wouldn’t even be in a position of power.
Satan knows your name and calls you by your sin.
God knows your sin and calls you by your name.
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Profound!
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