the evil that is known as fascism

This is another post where I will dump a collection of links for reference purposes: 

from the Internet and other sources: 

• Council on Foreign Relations:   World101 - “What Is Fascism?”   https://world101.cfr.org/contemporary-history/world-war/what-fascism   when accessed, last updated on 14^th April, 2023   

• The Conversation:   “What is fascism?”   https://theconversation.com/what-is-fascism-153947   26^th February , 2021   
  

• Time:   “What to Know About the Origins of Fascism’s Brutal Ideology”   https://time.com/5556242/what-is-fascism/   when accessed, last updated on 22^nd March, 2019    

• Radical  Women:   “Build a democratic united front to stop the far-right “freedom” movement”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/statements/statements-2021/United-front-stop-ultra-right.shtml   17^th December, 2021   and   “No to Red-baiting in the Reproductive Justice Movement”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/statements/statements-2022/No-to-redbaiting.shtml   2^nd August, 2022   and   “Women Resist Fascism: Yesterday and Today”   https://www.radicalwomen.org/images/WomenResistFascismSyllabus.pdf   (notes for a course)   

• Freedom Socialist Party:   multiple articles at https://socialism.com/category/anti-fascism/   and   https://socialism.com/?s=fascism   (Note: is marxist, but their material on fascism is good)  
  

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism  
  

• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fascism    

• https://www.britannica.com/summary/fascism   and   https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism  

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Definitions_of_fascism&oldid=1189640591,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism&oldid=1190015268,   and   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fascism_and_ideology&oldid=1186676064  
  

• “N_z_ Fanatics and Gangland Executions | B2W: ZEITGEIST! I E.26 Winter 1925”   https://youtu.be/KjPnylQNT6E   and   “Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism | BETWEEN 2 WARS I 1932 Part 4 of 4”   https://youtu.be/t9PYCxIyyF8   from the   “The Rise of N_z_ Germany” playlist   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrG5J-K5AYAWfQcaJ7nCjYBpHnWNAJ9mb      

• “LIVE: TOP Psychiatrist BACK with MAJOR UPDATE on Trump Mental Collapse | The Weekend Show”   https://www.youtube.com/live/Npp5XEuDBz4   The commentary on circumstances where personal interviews are not necessary or are even unhelpful was informative, surprising, and interesting - and has given some nuance to the Goldwater Rule, IMO. However, IMO, the suggestion that mental fitness evaluations should be performed is potentially dangerous: consider if that were to be set up by Trump appointees, or was assessed through the racist / sexist / ableist / ageist / other biases/bigotries that have historically plagued the psychiatric/psychological industries and the politico-economic-social soup they operate in ... Having made that point, if that can be managed, it is similar to something I have thought about fairly often: testing for unconscious biases, including authoritarianism, so those biases/favouritisms can be managed.      The point that fascism is a mental health issue, rather than a political one, at around 24:38, is MAJOR - and fits what we see in history.   At 40:00:   “Yes, you’re right - because his speeches are dangerous. He may not be able to form sentences, but he knows how to manipulate minds, yeah. Now A____ H_tl_r was was said to be a seismograph of crowds, meaning that he could sense the needs of the crowds - sense their, uh, emotional vulnerabilities and dispositions, and to be able to play on those things, uh, as if playing an instrument. To be able to uh essentially turn them into his instruments, and, uh, Donald Trump has the same ability. It may be seen as an in-as an ingenious skill, but it’s actually compensatory. It’s compensatory of his lack of empathy, compassion, conscience, his inability to connect with other people emotionally, and so he has seen people not as other human beings,  but as instruments to attain his goals”   It all reminds me of what Voltaire wrote:   “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”   https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20527-those-who-can-make-you-believe-absurdities-can-make-you   And the final comments about Trump spreading symptoms of mental illness are both credible, based on what I have seen, and terrifying ...      Additional relevant links are:   “Bandy X. Lee”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bandy_X._Lee&oldid=1242347221      “Goldwater rule”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldwater_rule&oldid=1240380818   “(the evil that is known as) fascism”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-evil-that-is-known-as-fascism.html      
  

 

books: 

•    <for other, future posts>   

• “Fascism: A Warning” by Madeleine  Albright and Bill Woodward, pub. William Collins, 2018, ISBN-13 (paperback) 978-0008282301   Amazon https://www.amazon.com.au/Fascism-Warning-Madeleine-Albright-ebook/dp/B075QWKVBG/ref=sr_1_9    

• "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy  Snyder, pub. Vintage Publishing, 2017, ISBN 978-1847924889 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Tyranny-Twenty-Lessons-Twentieth-Century-ebook/dp/B01N9OJ2DX/ref=sr_1_2  

• “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia”   by Masha Gessen, pub. Granta Books, 2017, ISBN-13 (paperback) 978-1594634543   Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Future-History-Totalitarianism-Reclaimed-Russia/dp/1594634548/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0  
  

 

my major posts:

•    <for other, future posts>   

• “The far right’s undeclared global war   [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on bigotry/hate, violence/abuse/war. Reader discretion is advised]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-far-rights-undeclared-global-war.html   

• “Review and lessons from TimeGhost Army’s “Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-and-lessons-from-timeghost-armys.html   Saturday 12^th October 2019   

• “A YouTube video on problems with power - and ways to prevent them [Content Warning: cruelty, abuse, violence, atrocities, abuse of power/scandals, bad choices, narcissism, politics, police violence]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-youtube-video-on-problems-with-power.html   Wednesday 30^th August 2023   

• “One of the evils of fascism”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/01/one-of-evils-of-fascism.html   Thursday 12^th January 2023    

• “The coming global waves of hates ... and canaries in the mine (~930 words; 3 - 5 min. read)”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-coming-global-waves-of-hates-and.html   Thursday 8^th September 2022  
  

• “Emotional, psychological, social, intellectual, legal, and MORAL blindness to cruelty (~1,800 words - 8 - 11 min. read)”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/05/emotional-psychological-social.html   Friday 20^th May 2022   

• “Digital dumbness, the still active evil of n___sm, and an Australian Magnitsky Act”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/10/digital-dumbness-still-active-evil-of.html   Thursday 28^th October 2021   which includes:   as the victims of neo-nazi violence in Australia give evidence of their experiences, neo-nazis in the USA are being successfully fought using legal action - by the costs being imposed; 

• “The USA”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-usa.html   Wednesday 4^th November 2020   

• “Post No. 796 - the importance of non-violence”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2015/12/post-no-796-importance-of-non-violence.html   Monday 14^th December 2015   

• “Post No. 505 - Lessons from the past: the film “Kamchatka””   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2014/01/lessons-from-past-film-kamchatka.html   Tuesday 7^th January 2014  
  

 

my other posts:

   <for other, future posts>   

• “Post No. 2,639 - Fighting the forces of evil”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/11/post-no-2639-fighting-forces-of-evil.html   Monday 20^th November 2023   

• “Post No. 2,632 - The world feels like ... [Content Warning]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/11/post-no-2632-world-feels-like-content.html   Saturday 11^th November 2023   

• “Post No. 2,601 - Unwarranted, foolish, and damaging, destructive, or evil loyalty [Content Warning - mention of evil]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/09/post-no-2601-unwarranted-foolish-and.html   Friday 29^th September 2023  
  

• “Accountability”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/08/accountability.html   Monday 14^th August 2023   

• “Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2535-trauma-content-warning.html   Monday 7^th August 2023  

• “Post No. 2,523 - Some thoughts on the legal cases against #45, and on countering evil [Content Warning: harm, abuse, power, violence, trauma]”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/07/post-no-2523-some-thoughts-on-legal.html   Monday 31^st July 2023   includes links to other, relevant posts   

• “Post No. 2,513 - more hate and authoritarian insularity, fear and fascism”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/07/post-no-2513-more-hate-and.html   Wednesday 26^th July 2023   

• “Post No. 2,438 - The pendulum is swinging”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/05/post-no-2438-pendulum-is-swinging.html   Friday 12^th May 2023  
  

• “The enabling and consequences of hate and amathia - including fascism and even more extreme right wing extremism [Content Warning - anger at violent bigotry]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-enabling-and-consequences-of-hate.html   Wednesday 5^th April 2023   

• “The combat of words [Note: Content Warning - discusses harm and wrongdoing]”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-combat-of-words.html   Monday 5^th January 2023  
  

• “The truth behind resistance to human rights”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-truth-behind-resistance-to-human.html   Thursday 22^nd September 2022   

• “A perspective: now, then, and the yet to come - for the few, and the many”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-perspective-now-then-and-yet-to-come.html   Saturday 5^th March 2022    

• “(Some) police and other subclinical psychopaths”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/police.html   Monday 12^th April 2021   

• “The seemingly “little” things matter”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-seemingly-little-things-matter.html   Tuesday 6^th April 2021   

• “An initial response to Rutger Bregman's “Humankind””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-initial-response-to-rutger-bregmans.html   Thursday 21^st May 2020   

• “Voters and the possible impeachment of POTUS45”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/voters-and-possible-impeachment-of.html   Sunday 6^th October 2019   
  

• “Post No. 1,181 - Trauma”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/07/post-no-1181-trauma.html   Monday 9^th July 2018   
  

• “The problem of the Newtonian heart, mind and soul worldview”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-problem-of-newtonian-heart-mind-and.html   Friday 30^th March 2018   

my other “definitions”: 

   <for other, future posts>   

• my glossary definition of “evil” - which also includes a list of links  
  

• my glossary definitions of   bigotry,  ethics,   FBU,   FoC,   LBI,   Newtonian worldview,   patriarchy,   toxic masculinity,   toxic positivity,   transgenocide,   virtue signalling;  

 

 

 

abrahamic religions

This is a term for those religions which trace themselves back to Abraham - i.e., Judaism, neochristianity, and Islam, and a few others. 

See: 

• https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-abrahamic-religions.html;
• https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Abrahamic_religions;
• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abrahamic_religions&oldid=1190772194.
  

spiritual ecosystem

In much the same way that physical existence has a wide range of species (biological diversity) to meet specific needs and enable adaptation to change, so too do the different types of people (neurodivergent, LGBTQIASB+, etc) exist to meet specific spiritual needs and enable continued spiritual evolution. 

This does NOT apply to races, which are a physical aspect, but MAY apply to some cultures. 

It also does not apply to many religions, which are more akin to tools that human use to impact the physical world: as tools evolve over time and older, simplerr, less apt tools are discarded, so too are religions meant to evolve and adapt.

I first mentioned this concept in https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/12/post-no-2663-autism-and-psychism.html  

See also   spiritual evolution   and   spiritual maturity. 

 

Note that others use this phrase in a way that is basically Paganism (but without the honesty to admit that): caring for physical ecosystems is a sacred duty, and feeds us spiritually - see, for instance,   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiritual_ecology&oldid=1183952755   and   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2210900   As that concept is better expressed in Paganism and other Indigenous religions (Paganism is the Indigenous religion of Europe), I consider it should be referred using existing terms rather than creating a colonialist (as it ignores the Indigenous religious values which already cover the concept) and grammatically sloppy portmanteau.

Copyright © Kayleen White 2016-2023     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike basis   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/   

 

 

(the five) stress responses

Recently my response to a stressful situation showed that the fight-flight-freeze-fawn stress response is missing a fifth descriptor: network & nurture, more commonly known these days as tend & befriend. 

 

The long standing fight or flight description of stress responses was another of the situations where medical research suffered from a male bias - not only in terms of the responses, but also in the limited interpretations of things like genes, which ignored the complexities of human behaviour/social situations (how people are raised, peer influences, media, etc). 

 

Subsequently those two options were extended to include freeze or fawn, which is discussed in the links below: 

• “The Fawn Response: How Trauma Can Lead to People-Pleasing”   https://psychcentral.com/health/fawn-response   “Difficulty saying ‘no,’ fear of saying what you really feel, and denying your own needs — these are all signs of the fawn response”   

• “Fawning: The Fourth Trauma Response After Fight, Flight, Freeze”   https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-fight-flight-freeze-fawn-trauma-responses   

However, there other responses identified before the freeze and fawn responses: network and nurture, and tend and befriend. 

In the case of the stressful situation I mentioned, my immediate reaction was to call on the network of allies in the workplace that I have nurtured over the years, and two of those people are doing a sterling (and successful within a day, by the way) job on my behalf - which is and example of network & nurture. 

 

I have generally considered that tend and befriend was a variation of network and nurture, but definitions tend to vary a bit. For the purposes of this post, which is for my convenience, and does NOT seek to be definitive:

 

From  https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2020/05/fbu-flummoxed-by-unfamiliar.html: 

• Network - where the discomforted person seeks to build a group or network (such as old boys clubs, private schools, irrelevant admission criteria in any organisation, groups against LGBTIQ+ people [or some thereof], etc) against the idea they find discomforting; and

• Nurture - where the discomforted person seeks solace from others who also cling to the idea that is threatened (such as friends, families [especially if the family has a powerful group mind [“egregore”], priests of that religion, etc).

From https://mcleanonline.medium.com/fight-or-flight-196fc1beb89f, which is citing “Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-flight”   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10941275/:

• Tending involves nurturant activities designed to protect the self and offspring that promote safety and reduce distress; 

• befriending is the creation and maintenance of social networks that may aid in this process.

These tend to suggest they are more or less equivalent. 

 

However, whether network and nurture or tend and befriend, when I have talked to people in workplaces who exhibit stereotypical male behaviour (including a couple of ciswomen), they've wrongly thought this was the fawn response - and error which assumes there are only two people in the situations: the source of the threat, and the person being threatened. In actual fact, there are also bystanders and allies - and environment/context. 

 

Hopefully a few decades of less stereotypical male and less binary gendered research will see that fifth stress response come into wide  use. 

 

Following are a few morre links: 

• “Stress Response: What Is Tend and Befriend?”   https://psychcentral.com/stress/tend-and-befriend    

• “Fight or Flight?”   https://mcleanonline.medium.com/fight-or-flight-196fc1beb89f   “We’re more complex than that”   

• “There’s A Female Version Of Fight Or Flight, But No One Talks About It”   https://www.thecandidly.com/2019/theres-a-female-version-of-fight-or-flight-but-no-one-talks-about-it   

• “The Tend And Befriend Theory – Why The “Fight-Or-Flight” Response Is Only Half The Story”   https://insighttimer.com/blog/tend-and-befriend-response-psychology/  
  

• Wikipedia: “Tend and befriend”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tend_and_befriend&oldid=1187235542  

You can find articles from my main blog which touch on stress at:

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/search/label/stress  
  

PS - see also this timely YouTube video:   “Fawning Causes Abusive, Toxic Relationships for Autistic People”   https://youtu.be/Ux8nLBUTUPI?si=T-in60LWaf_Haix3  

PPS - also, from a news post of mine: 

• “Why the mental cost of a STEM career can be too high for women and people of colour”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00324-0   This has cropped up in a few formats in different situations - for instance, last year there was a report that living with racism on a daily basis created trauma akin to that of soldiers in combat - and the harmful effects of discrimination on many minority groups (e.g., also different gender identities, neurodiverse people, and gender diverse people) has been long known (decades at least). This article includes:   “Allostatic load is a term coined by physiological psychologist Eliot Stellar and neuroendocrinologist Bruce McEwen, one of my mentors. It describes how chronic adverse physical, psychological or social situations — including racial and gender-based oppression — cause sustained activation of the body and brain’s stress response, resulting in cumulative wear and tear. Increased allostatic load is associated with depression and anxiety, which can impair motivation”   I can, from nearly half a century in the engineering profession in several minority groups, confirm that. I CAN ALSO CONFIRM THE BENEFITS OF BUILDING COMMUNITY - this is what I refer to as network and nurture when discussing the FIVE stress responses at   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-five-stress-responses.html      See also   “What Is Allostatic Load?”   https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-allostatic-load-5680283      “What Does 'Allostatic Load' Mean for Your Health?”   https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/presence-mind/202010/what-does-allostatic-load-mean-your-health   “According to the allostatic load model, the effects of stress are cumulative”      “Allostatic Load”   https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/allostatic-load   “Allostatic load is defined as the perturbation of several physiological systems toward consistently high or low or non-adaptive states even when stressors remit, whose combined perturbations lead to wear and tear on the body”      “Allostatic Load and Its Impact on Health: A Systematic Review”   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32799204/      “Allostatic Load”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allostatic_load&oldid=1187244176     
  

Copyright © Kayleen White 2016-2023     NO AI   I do not consent to any machine learning aka Artificial Intelligence (AI), generative AI, large language model, machine learning, chatbot, or other automated analysis, generative process, or replication program to reproduce, mimic, remix, summarise, or otherwise  replicate any part of this post or other posts on this blog via any means. Typo’s may be inserrted deliberately to demonstrate this is not an AI product.     Otherwise, fair and reasonable use is accepted under Creative Commons 4.0 on an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike basis   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/   

 

 

UBI - Universal Basic Income

This is a holding post for links, rather than an attempt to comprehensively analyse the concept (the titles of my posts shown in this colour):  

• Basic Income Earth Network   https://basicincome.org/  
  

• "A UBI may (largely) pay for itself"   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2021/04/ubi-may-pay-for-itself.html  

• “Early findings from the world’s largest UBI study”   https://www.givedirectly.org/2023-ubi-results/   The two year results included:   “a monthly universal basic income (UBI) empowered recipients and did not create idleness (that has to be a classic US/neoliberal way of thinking)   ...   both a large lump sum and a long-term UBI proved highly effective   ...   a short-term UBI was the least impactful of the designs but still effective   ...   governments should consider changing how they deliver cash aid.”    The summary includes insightful explanations, and the article includes a reasonable overview of what was done. My only criticism of this work is that it doesn’t include assessment of the value of long term low amounts - such as enabling children to pay for report cards (attending the school may be free, but to get a report card may be a cost that poorer people cannot afford, thus limiting future employment opportunities);  
  

• "Australians support universal health care, so why not a universal basic income?"   https://theconversation.com/australians-support-universal-health-care-so-why-not-a-universal-basic-income-91572   

• "Opinion: Universal basic income should be seen as a rightful share of society's wealth"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-14/universal-basic-income-wont-stop-people-working/9746544   

• "Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being"   https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/#Echobox=1598028651   

• "Exploring the practicalities of a basic income pilot"   https://apo.org.au/node/217446   "Insights from around the globe: an international learning report from BIEN 2018 Congress"   

• From "Post No. 1,156 – Gnwmythr’s News Ed. No. 213"   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2018/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none.html:   
• "Finland has backed away from its “Universal Basic Income” trial – or, perhaps more accurately, “flat-cheque 'permanent' (for the duration of the trial) support for (a sample of) the unemployed” – see also this slightly right wing opinion (which ignores burnout, worker abuse and neoliberal government abuse of those on welfare), although I agree in the value and dignity of work and not stigmatising those cast out by technology";

• "Rise of the machines: Is a universal basic income the answer for mass unemployment?"   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-04/universal-basic-income-money-for-nothing/8676834  
  

• "What if free money is the only answer to AI?"   https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/what-if-free-money-is-the-only-answer-to-ai-8cca7e6ab96a   "A 60-year History of the Universal Basic Income’s Overnight Necessity"  
  

• "Kenya's Basic Income Experiment"   https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswjxh   (audio)  
  

• “Henderson’s legacy: Revisiting universal basic income”   https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/henderson-s-legacy-revisiting-universal-basic-income  

• “Nobody Wants to Work?”   https://youtu.be/9X3YSVrck8Y?si=IogHWHRPPr-klJL9   An utterly BRILLIANT rebuttal of the rubbish notion of people not wanting to work - and an excellent perspective on what is important or not, and work conditions/rights  

 

 

conflation

This is going to be a progresssively developed list of all those things that people conflate - which means: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conflation&oldid=1146605147; 
• https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/conflate;
  

So ... here’s my list - and yes, it is a running rant: 

• Mistaking doing what one’s parents taught/favoured/wanted you to do well with ... having thought about a matter - especially anything to do with gender and other stereotypes; 
• One of the major flaws in this world is mistaking “awareness of convenience” for thinking;
  
• Similarly, doing social norms well does NOT mean one has thought about an issue; 
• Confusing feeling sexually attractive with physical comfort - especially clothes, the sexiest of which are often physically uncomfortable, but people are lacking in self awareness and personal honesty, or so afraid of not being attractive, that they will lie to themselves - and then others that they are ... “comfortable”; 
• Thinking - wrongly - that asexual means aromantic, which conflates sex and romance; 
• Neurotypicals (NTs, or allistics, if you prefer) can take things for granted, and thus miss what neurodivergents (NDs) see - making the NTs like fish denying the existence of water ... ;
  
• Smiling does NOT mean one is not being a bigot or otherwise nasty (look up narcissist, psychopath, etc); 
• Not choosing consciously to actively discriminate does NOT mean you are not a bigot (look up systemic discrimination); 
• Abuses of power such as silencing victims is one of the causes of conflating revenge and justice; 
  
• Mistaking gossip for harmless social bonding - it is an act of utter evil; 
• Reinforcing social/business hierarchy is not building cohesion.
  Promoting human rights is not divisive - it is the resistance that is divisive, not the rights nor their promotion; 
• Just because wintry days may look miserable to you does not necessarily mean they are cold (unless there is snow involved).
  Many people have a higher skin temperature under their clothes in winter than in summer because they are conflating their physical “comfort” (sense of warmth, in this case) with their emotional opinion of what they see;
  
• 
  
•    <more to come over time ... >  
  

I may, from time to time, add stories which illustrate this problem as well: 

I’ll begin this list of stories with someone I knew decades ago: a ciswoman who I can only describe as being in lust with a male actor was so out of touch with her feelings that she convinced herself it was because he was a better actor … much as some people are so out of touch with their feelings and sensations that, as mentioned above, they convince themselves that physically uncomfortable clothes that they feel sexy in are physically comfortable - which goes beyond cognitive dissonance to lying to oneself and the world no matter what the cost.

   <more to possibly be added>  

See also: 

• [CW] (aspects of) character   (collection of links for reference)

 

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systems justification

See 

[Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war]   systems justification;   

 

 

PFD - Paranoid Fear of Difference (including possible being different) [Content Warning - language]

This is something that underlies so much of the bigotry against minorities - alleged adults and many chronological children abusing others simply because of difference - which is because the abusers are scared sh**less of being anything other than different, because that might involve them being subjected to the same exclusionary abuse that they them,selves are so willingly and wilfully dishing out to the others ...  

In my opinion, this is the opposite of spiritual / spiritually evolved, and, in fact, qualifies as evil - along with other similar problems that are too often trivialised, such as gossip. 

People with this flaw have, in my opinion, extremely severe personality defects.

[Content Warning] trauma

For now, see: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/08/post-no-2535-trauma-content-warning.html; 
  

 

media / press

This is now at   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2024/12/journalism-press-mainstream-media.html  

 

 

(aspects of) character [Content Warning - includes disturbing/harmful matters]

I've decided to create this post so I can plonk a few links about various aspects of character here, rather than go searching for links when I want to write about an aspect of character. 

Emotions are a separate matter, which I have started to address at emotions [Content Warning: discussion includes "negative" emotions, harm, and trauma]. That post includes:

• Post No. 183 - Avoiding positive energy;
  

• Post No. 221 - Inappropriate reactions to (agape) love; 

• Post No. 197 - Personality - which is about choice of characteristics in the search for uniqueness; 
  

 

   <future aspects>   

General posts: 

• Why won’t/don’t people change?
  Some people, I think, are afraid they might have to grieve at the loss of outdated and wrong ideas - ideas that they are emotionally addicted to. This has to be addressed at an emotional level, ultimately -  addressing the head (thinking) initially is just the doorway to the heart.
  

• “Post No. 2,817 - The damage done by “bad” worldviews”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2024/06/post-no-2817-damage-done-by-bad.html      

•    <to be added>    

 

Flawed types of character 

• narcissists 
• Narcissists are far more likely to buy into conspiracy theories, research finds (The New Daily); 
• Post No. 2,584 - Vindictiveness and other miscellaneous thoughts [Content Warning: discussion of/links to articles on jealousy, vindictiveness, narcissism]; 
• 
  
• psychopaths 
• [Content Warning]   psychopath; 
• 
  
• bigots/bigotry 
• [Content Warning]   bigots / bigotry; 
• 
  
• evil: 
• [Content Warning]   evil;
• 
  
• patriarchy: 
• patriarchy; 
• [Content Warning]   toxic masculinity;
• 
  
• gossips: 
• Social connection: a block to getting rid of discrimination - still?; 
• The UK royal family and “Spare”   [Note: Content Warning - bigotry, family & other abuse]; 
• One of the evils of fascism; 
• Backlash and other thoughts; 
• The gaps in modern society;
• Post No. 2,387 - Random ramblings: returning to the physical, travel, and working on next Rangers of the Inner Plane short story; 
• Post No. 2,385 - A Few Rambling Thoughts   [Content Warning: bigotry, carnism {a Vegan term}, death]; 
• Post No. 2,250 - Feedback vs. wanting The Truth . . . and responding to lies (~1,500 words; 6 – 9 min. read) CW: bullying & abuse; 
• Post No. 2,176 - Undue focus, and "unhistoric" acts; 
• Post No. 1,496 - Responsible, Informed, and Ethical Influence; 
• Post No. 464 - Why bad things happen to good people; 
• Post No. 364 - [Content Warning] The Origin of Evil; 
• Post No. 338 - [Content Warning: war, violence, attitudes, superficiality, nonBPM {aka "negative"} energy] Well it's war, Jim, but not as we know it; 
  
• Post No. 290 - Good riddance to bad rubbish?; 
• Post No. 082 - Control, family and living in the 'burbs: A Rant; 
• Post No. 031 - Emotions and spellcraft [Content Warning: emotions, alcohol, problems]; 
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• other: 
• [Content Warning] christo-fascism; 
  
• "histrionic personality disorder", from Post No. 097 - What do I do when my soul's a drama queen, dahling?; 
• Immature Soul / Young Soul; 
• Internalised sexism / victim blaming; 
• [Content Warning - religious abuses] neochristianity/pseudochristian / Christianity; 
• [Content Warning] neoliberalism; 
• the Newtonian (non-physical) world view;
• sheeple; 
• sock puppet (pejorative term); 
• spiritual bypassing; 
• white light; 
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Character flaws/actions 

• amathia; 
• (the) aspiration paradox; 
  
• attraction to elitism; 
• civility trap; 
• conflation;
  
• cynicism;
• the means shape the end - i.e., the end does NOT justify the means;
• FBU - flummoxed by (the) unfamiliar; 
• fixated "thinking";   
  
• FoC - fear of complexity; 
• “gender flat earthers (GFEs)”   https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2024/04/gender-flat-earthers-gfes.html   
  
• hate speech; 
• inappropriateness   including   inappropriate reactions to (agape) love; 
• incredulous; 
• intellectual cowardice; 
• Internalised sexism / victim blaming; 
• irony (a specific, limited usage); 
• lack of clear thinking; 
  
• LBI (left brain interpreter); 
• lip service; 
• moral licencing; 
• the Newtonian (non-physical) world view; 
• [Content Warning - language]   PFD - Paranoid Fear of Difference;  
• “spontaneous trait transference”;  
• (the five) stress responses - including a link to a YouTube video on the dangers of the fawn response for some people;
  
• [Content Warning - links to reports on violence/abuse/war]   systems justification;   
• [Content Warning] toxic forgiveness   
• [Content Warning] toxic masculinity    
• [Content Warning] Toxic positivity; 
• virtue signalling; 
• Post No. 2,120 - Blocks to Changing the World; 
• Post No. 380 - Naiveté (inappropriateness); 
• Tall  Poppy  Syndrome; 
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Neutral/undecided (could be used either way) aspects/concepts/tools, including those that result from "just being human" 

• [Content Warning - psychological/emotional triggers]   buttons;
• communication;
• Evidence;
• Growth orientation (path); 
• Know Thyself; 
• levels of consciousness (interim); 
• Post No. 832 - Lifestyle Vulnerabilities; 
• limits; 
• Mӕgan; 
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - note the PS links to an alternative, and on the First Nations origins of this concept; 
• negative learning; 
• "Non-Violent" Communication / Collaborative Communication; 
• (efficacy of) nonviolent protests; 
  
• purpose; 
• rishi; 
• shadow self (interim DRAFT); 
• Post No. 1,672 - Knowing good from bad; 
• Post No. 1,641 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 18 - The humanness of the flaws that underlie opposition which was a report of Post No. 1,636 - Magickal Battle of the World - Weekly Meditation - Week No. 17 - Motivations of the nonBPM; 
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Character strengths/actions/tools/concepts 

• authentic presence; 
• “Autism: The new view. The world is disordered”   https://youtu.be/ugQEiZG19Rs?si=0L2S0TvwFd2ESf5m   
  
• Balanced Positive; 
• "clear and present thinking" - link to Brendan Myers free online course of that name; 
  
• compassion;
• spoons of courage; 
• Cure Violence (organisation) (the concept of transmissibility of violence is significant - particularly as it applies to constructive aspects as well); 
  
• (human) dignity;
• emotional intelligence;
• ethics; 
• evolution (PARTIAL DRAFT);
• Golden Rule; 
  
• feminism; 
• human rights;
• Know Thyself; 
• lucid living; 
• Mӕgan; 
• Maturity (non-physical); 
• nonphysical health strength and wellbeing; 
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Good types of character 

• Earth empath; 
• Mature Soul / Old Soul;
• self actualising (partial DRAFT); 
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