(By Eike Scholz)
In this post it will briefly be illustrated why
some knowledge of psychology, in particular of cluster B personality
disorders and behavioral patterns related to narcissism, is important
to be able construct sound and secure
social systems. For example, by avoiding hiring psychologically
unfit personal for positions with access to significant power.
The fundamentally problematic pschosocial patterns,
commonly observed in relationships with narcissistic individuals, are the following:
The golden goose.
The scapegoat.
The believe in power, in particular the conviction,
that punishment is the primary way solve social problems.
Gaslighting.
Inability to admit errors in judgment.
For common mass murder justification ideologies the pattern is identical. It has two
parts:
A structural setup given by:
The golden group, with the common examples:
The aryans
The proletariat
The capitalists
Christians
Muslims
Atheists
White people
Women
Men
"Us"
The scapegoats, with the common examples:
The Jews
The capitalists
The proletariat
Christians
Muslims
Atheists
Black people
White people
The old white male
Men
Woman
"Them"
A social dynamics part given by:
Some leader, or group of leaders, constructs a basic ideology around
the golden group and scapegoat categories. The leader is not necessary
part of the golden group, as historical examples show. The leaders then goes
after some individual of the scapegoats to "solve" a problem and assert
dominance. After that everyone knows not to mess with the leaders, since
they are powerful and willing use force.
Simple gaslighting is used by the leaders to hide, that punishing the
scapegoats has actually no effect with respect the associated problems.
The inability of the leaders to admit errors in judgement, will then result in a
step-wise escalation of the punishments of the scapegoats. If not countered,
this escalation spiral will continue until the scapegats are dead, as many
colletive and individual historical examples show.
As often observed for individual narcissists or pychopaths, only raw power, that is the credible
threat of, or actual severe consequences can stop this spiral.
It should be noted, that this article does not claim, that the above pattern is the only
way to create mass murder justification ideologies. Further, its not "the narcissists",
that are the problem, but leaders, that exploit the above psychosocial pattern. Its not about
what people are, but about what they do. If you, for example, want to reduce the number of murders,
you go after the murderers and not after some proxy/scapegoat group.
Sadly, in the large scale, that means that a world without military and war can not exist,
since every type of leader can in principle exploint the above pattern.
As for crime we can only hope to manage this dark side of human
nature sufficiently. Actually, given the existence of weapons of mass destruction,
we must, if we want to secure the long term survival of our species.
As a corollary, it possible to deduce, that scapegoats are likely to get murdered, if
neither them self nor allies can put up a credible threat of retaliation
against attacks justified as just punishments. If you wonder why the state of
Israel maintains a strong military and tight connections to the USA, this corollary is
basically the answer. Jews are simply the scapegoats for too many groups and
their strong military is used as argument to scapegoat them some more - of course.
In the end scapegoats or their allies must use power to stop the above escalation spiral.
As a consequence, hiring personal with narcissistic personal patterns into positions of power
will make your organization part that escalation spiral, which has no other function then to
ensure the social dominance of the scapegoater. This will degrade the ability of an organization
to perform as intended, since scapegoating by definition does not solve any problems,
but it will create enemies. Well, it will create enmies, unless the scapegoaters can kill them all,
which explains the title of this post.
This escalation dynamic is also the reason why the WissTec R&D Services UG performed
some confidential weapons systems development, that is not related to
the prior posted "Sprave" assault-alingshot prototype which is our idea of a joke weapon.
To get allies you have to give something in exchange.
