https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/lost-boys-violent-narcissism-angry-young-men/672886/
The Violent Narcissism of Angry Young Men
Embedded within the article, this was referenced:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/the-terrorist-mindset-the-radical-loser-a-451379.html
For this to take place, however, a kind of ideological detonator is required to ignite the radical loser and make him explode. As history shows us, such ideological detonators have never been in short supply. Their content is the least important thing about them. They may be religious or political doctrines, nationalist, communist or racist dogmas - any form of sectarianism, however bigoted, is capable of mobilizing the latent energy of the radical loser.
This applies not only to the rank and file but also to their commanders, whose attraction is based in turn on their own self-definition as obsessive losers. It is precisely the leader's deluded traits in which his followers recognize themselves. He is rightly accused of being cynical and calculating. It is only natural that he should despise his followers. He understands them all too well. He knows they are losers and, finally, he thus considers them worthless. And as Elias Canetti put it half a century ago, he therefore takes pleasure in the idea that if possible, everyone else, including his followers, should meet their death before he himself is hanged or consumed by fire in his bunker.
(remind you of anyone?)
At this point, alongside many other examples from history, one cannot help being reminded of the National Socialist project in Germany. At the end of the Weimar Republic, large sections of the population saw themselves as losers. The objective data tell a clear story. But the economic crisis and mass unemployment would probably not have been enough to bring Hitler to power. For that to happen, it took propaganda aimed at the subjective factor: the blow dealt to people's pride by the defeat of 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles. Most Germans sought to blame others: the victorious powers, the "global Capitalist-Bolshevist conspiracy," and above all, of course, the eternal scapegoat, Judaism. The torment of being in the loser's position could only be compensated for by pursuing an offensive strategy, by seeking refuge in megalomania. From the outset, the Nazis entertained delusions of world domination. As such, their goals were boundless and nonnegotiable. In this sense, they were not only unreal, but also nonpolitical. Consulting a map was never going to be enough to persuade Hitler and his followers that the struggle of one small European country against the rest of the world was hopeless. On the contrary. The radical loser has no notion of resolving conflicts, of compromise that might involve him in a normal network of interests and defuse his destructive energy. The more hopeless his project, the more fanatically he clings to it. There are grounds to suspect that Hitler and his followers were interested not in victory, but in radicalizing and eternalizing their own status as losers.
Their pent-up anger discharged itself in a war of unprecedented destruction against all the others they blamed for their own defeats. First and foremost, it was a matter of destroying the Jews and the opponents of 1919. But they certainly had no intention of sparing the Germans. Their actual objective was not victory, but elimination, downfall, collective suicide, the horrible end. There is no other explanation for the way the Germans fought on in World War II right to the last pile of rubble in Berlin. Hitler himself confirmed this diagnosis when he said that the German people did not deserve to survive. At a huge cost, he achieved what he wanted - he lost. But the Jews, the Poles, the Russians, the Germans, and all the others are still around.
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Also something of interest to note: Finally documentarians are airing the greatest of all possibilities - 1918 Flu contributed to the rise of mental health issues within families: Schizophrenia, bipolar, etc., along with the other possibility that
today's flu still contribute to those disorders: the mental fog, the forced return to the work and school before people have actually healed from the flu (it can take up to two weeks to a month to overcome a massive health disorder on the magnitude of what the flu can wreck upon a body). Plus covid, which seems to attack those with ACE1 & ACE2 problems (which genetically come from Sub-Saharan Africa, which is an antidote to malaria in their countries). (Croup, which used to be common in children has waned due it being a type of flu virus and flu shots. I used to get it every other year it seems and it ain't fun to have.)
So, we've got stupid people saying "it's just the flu" and refusing to get themselves or their children inoculated with the annual flu shot, along with other semi-eradicated diseases from the past, which seems to bring forth any mental illness that may be in their genetic code, along with the war against public health, we are now up against the proverbial "witch's brew."
Sorry to thread-drift, but in reading the many embedded links to "lone wolf scenarios" and reading about the 1918 Flu during the enforced incarcerations, aka covid shut down, what else was there to read about?
(Could you imagine a diphtheria outbreak today, thanks to anti-vaxers? It could be up to 4M deaths just from diphtheria.)
The only rational conclusion seems to be that we are going to have to divide the country - our side gets east* side of the Miss; theirs the west side. Why? Water - though it seems the east is massively polluted but, thankfully, there does seem to be a will to clean it all up.
* The West Coast will have to play it out amongst themselves - seems to be 50/50 today as it is.
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