https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momfo0j/
"It’s amazing how many people don’t understand that we’ve barely even entered the find out stage. Shits about to get a whole lot worse for a lot of people."
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1k5yk4w/terrified_trump_flees_tariffs_war_after_ceos/momuz6g/
"People honestly do NOT understand how this works on any level. We have become an “immediate, right now” society and as a result the general populace has no concept of time scale for things like manufacturing, food production, etc. None of this shit happens overnight, and most manufacturers and producers will try slightly overproduce or keep a minimum of excess supplies on hand in case of a minor disruption to supply lines - but once that handful of emergency supplies or parts is gone? THAT is when you find out how absolutely fucked you are."
"Pausing a handful of tariffs for a month or so will make zero difference. Large scale manufacturing plans out months and years in advance and a 30 day grace period means nothing to someone who is now looking at a possible fifty percent or more, who knows increase on a multi-million dollar contract a year down the line. It’s the instability and lack of logic that will kill so many businesses."
Egomaniac sure. But it’s important to recognize and come to terms with at may very well be an underlying pathology. The man’s behavior set fits in neatly with Cluster B personality disorder. Narcissist type.
We’ve become far to accustomed to calling non diagnosable behavior by a would be diagnosis: oh I’m OCD about this, ADHD much? to someone who is distracted, oh he’s vain so he’s such a narcissist. That’s not how any of this works.
The pathology of Cluster B is just functional enough to not be institutionalized. But barely. Borderlines find themselves there most often due to their self destructive tendencies.
Look at the behaviors:
What concerns me is social media users who can't escape the immediate social media enviornment and show the dozens of articles already describing this by medical professionals, unable to demonstrate they can get on the same pages of information on a topic and instead only want Donald Trump and Elon Musk kind of inline media environment sources.
Why can't we just all repeat the same story every day until every person in USA gets on the same page?
Why do we have to generate millions of unique messages that all pass like ships in the night and nobody ever gets on the same page at the same time?
Psychologist-backed documentary labels Trump 'malignant narcissist' https://www.france24.com/en/20200901-psychologist-backed-documentary-labels-trump-malignant-narcissist
The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists. Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/
Why do people not work towards getting everyone on the same pages of the problem, instead finding engagement in discussing the problem over and over and over independently on social media platforms and different communities and different messages for over a decade, since year 2014?
I think media consumers go into egomania discussing how they are better than Donald Trump day after day as a form of egoism on social machine systems, "engagement" about how they are so much mentally healthier than one single person. Unable to see Mass psychosis of the entire population behaving that way. Forest for the trees problem.
Your entire reply was only about the icon status symbol of a single person, Donald Trump, and entirely skipped the other assertions I made in the message you replied to.
.3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"
.4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.
.5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness
Do you consider such people untreatable, write them off for a lifetime? The 10 years prediction of them being a problem.
How many people in the world do you consider problem free?
Any thoughts to share on adult marriage promises being a lifelong / even into concepts and metaphors of eternity beyond death? Do adults ever make any such choice promises like that to their job / employer or favorite HDTV news network? Or thoughts about how people are perhaps more married to Rupert Murdoch's media systems messages (Republican wealth televangelism to the poor) for a lifetime than a human spouse and children / parenting?
Repeating from my previous message: I think media consumers go into egomania discussing how they are better than Donald Trump day after day as a form of egoism on social machine systems, “engagement” about how they are so much mentally healthier than one single person. Unable to see Mass psychosis of the entire population behaving that way. Forest for the trees problem.
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“What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; a culture-death is a clear possibility.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. [email protected]
Also very common behavior for drug addicts:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20438087211044362
Drugs are common things people say on social media, but people don't seem to consider the assertions made in the message you replied to.
Religions, cults, cult behaviors. People high on memes and messages. People high on Fox News.
Donald Trump behaves like MAGA followers who all consume Fox News, high like a drug on the HDTV media content of "hate others".
Islamic terrorists don't use drugs, they 'get high" on poetry words of the Quran and media presentations of a Mosque. That's how Fox News and Newsmax HDTV can work on audiences.
.3. Understanding the Problem Assertion 2: The problem is We The People, the population of society. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"
.4. How did this happen? Assertion 3: A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.
.5. Understanding the Problem Assertion 4: The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness
Nah, there’s an eely quality to every conversation with an addict, a quality that remains long after becoming clean, but this persistent defense of the false reality isn’t that. An addict can be interpreted as someone infected with a dark passenger that hunts the next fix, with a narcissist there is no such separation. No empathy. No deviance. This is who and what they are while the addict can wrest control back for themselves.
The other difference is an addict can read a room. Again, another life skill that persists long after getting clean.
Of note, there’s nothing wrong with the toolbox carried by former addicts, depending on how they choose to use that toolbox going forward.