Kathy, I am reading Bandy Lee's deep dive into that sociopathy in her latest book "Trump Contagion" and how by giving him any platform of power his deep seated disorder gets projected and spread out into society at large. It becomes, in her words, a public health danger-- like an epidemic that, without containment, becomes a pandemic. Message: stop him now!
Kathy, I am reading Bandy Lee's deep dive into that sociopathy in her latest book "Trump Contagion" and how by giving him any platform of power his deep seated disorder gets projected and spread out into society at large. It becomes, in her words, a public health danger-- like an epidemic that, without containment, becomes a pandemic. Message: stop him now!
Bandy Lee's point of view is very important. We are normalizing dysfunctional, destructive behavior. There are people who will see Trump having the position in society he has been granted and say "I want to be like him". He should have been laughed off the national stage in 2015, but news organizations treated him as legitimate and talk shows (Letterman, et al) brought him on as a guest. Not good.
I have not researched it, but I see a parallel between a computer virus and the dynamics of a true cult. The cult becomes it's own circular point of reference, rejecting and punishing (unless forced to by circumstances, and sometimes not even then) any intrusions of contrasting reality. I recall reading an account of a nurse who cared for patients dying of COVID, some of whom insisted COVID was a hoax to their dying breaths.
A sense of "normalcy" is dangerous if not unceasingly reexamined. Slavery was normalized for a great many people, even US presidents. Restricted citizenship for women was "normal", along with other moral outrages most of us recognize as injustice today. Successful protest has carefully pointed to an injustice, relentlessly and concertedly. Evil can hide behind what comes to be considered "normal".
"A shrewd victor will, if possible, always present his demands to the vanquished in installments. And then, with a nation that has lost its character -and this is the case of every one which voluntarily submits - he can be sure that it will not regard one more of these individual oppressions as an adequate reason for taking up arms again." - Mein Kampf
I will tack on the new research that shows that AI spits out rubbish when it trains on itself. Sort of like inbreeding.
" A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses, but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. - Emerson on "History"
Kathy, I am reading Bandy Lee's deep dive into that sociopathy in her latest book "Trump Contagion" and how by giving him any platform of power his deep seated disorder gets projected and spread out into society at large. It becomes, in her words, a public health danger-- like an epidemic that, without containment, becomes a pandemic. Message: stop him now!
Bandy Lee's point of view is very important. We are normalizing dysfunctional, destructive behavior. There are people who will see Trump having the position in society he has been granted and say "I want to be like him". He should have been laughed off the national stage in 2015, but news organizations treated him as legitimate and talk shows (Letterman, et al) brought him on as a guest. Not good.
I have not researched it, but I see a parallel between a computer virus and the dynamics of a true cult. The cult becomes it's own circular point of reference, rejecting and punishing (unless forced to by circumstances, and sometimes not even then) any intrusions of contrasting reality. I recall reading an account of a nurse who cared for patients dying of COVID, some of whom insisted COVID was a hoax to their dying breaths.
A sense of "normalcy" is dangerous if not unceasingly reexamined. Slavery was normalized for a great many people, even US presidents. Restricted citizenship for women was "normal", along with other moral outrages most of us recognize as injustice today. Successful protest has carefully pointed to an injustice, relentlessly and concertedly. Evil can hide behind what comes to be considered "normal".
"A shrewd victor will, if possible, always present his demands to the vanquished in installments. And then, with a nation that has lost its character -and this is the case of every one which voluntarily submits - he can be sure that it will not regard one more of these individual oppressions as an adequate reason for taking up arms again." - Mein Kampf
I will tack on the new research that shows that AI spits out rubbish when it trains on itself. Sort of like inbreeding.
" A particular picture or copy of verses, if it do not awaken the same train of images, will yet superinduce the same sentiment as some wild mountain walk, although the resemblance is nowise obvious to the senses, but is occult and out of the reach of the understanding. Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations. - Emerson on "History"