This is the result of an upbringing and acculturation that cannot be undone, and it is everywhere. We made a huge mistake when we gave iPads to young children to keep them occupied, then gave them cell phones because all their friends had them. There's no turning back, regrettably. As you note, these are the people who will be operating the institutions upon which we older generations will be dependent on. It's not going to be pretty.
I know people who behave like this. They seem to thrive on platforms and can even appear to have totally normal relationships and thrive in business. However, their entire lives are howling chasms of emptiness. No matter how much they have, "likes," followers, friends, cars, houses, looks, vacation trips, money, or whatever, it is never enough.
I wonder if she had any emotion left to present to the relatives of the patient who died. I wonder if it even occurred to her. She knows love as a tally of "likes", but does not know that real love is not a popularity contest, and does not care about reactions. Sometimes love is "no". Stated quietly and with no explanation.
First of all, Five Times August is the new Bob Dylan, a true Folk Hero (Folk coming from the German word for “the people”).
Second, this young lady is a product of her social media generation. My kids are of that age and have managed to see through this crap and cyber-narcissism. They are also unvaccinated so there may be something to that. I like to think it’s my constant “STUPID PHONES” ranting (I have at long last ditched mine) but I will give them credit where it’s due: they are critical thinkers.
My suggestion to all parents with young kids: HOME SCHOOL, REMOVE ALL DEVICES and go back to basics. Those that survive will be the “Pioneers” so back to doing everything by hand, with no electricity, no transport, no fuel. Start collecting seeds, build a chicken coop if you can. Teach sewing, canning, knitting, how to make natural Medicines, how to treat wounds, self-defence, hunting with bow and arrow, fishing ALL THAT STUFF. A degree in sociology will provide them with enough ass paper for a day….GET OFF THE TECHNOCRATIC GRID ASAP
Tho many here may not have a belief system, the fact remains that we now have one or two generations who believe that this human body is all there is. In the past, children were raised with a belief in some kind of afterlife, whether that was resurrection, reincarnation or some variation of that. When people think that "this is it" there's really not much hope. The Beatles sang the song, with a verse that said, Imagine there's no heaven ". Well, we no longer have to imagine what it would be like without the things the Beatles told us to "imagine" living without. We're living it. I didn't grow up in an uber religious household, but we were always encouraged to explore "the unknown" and to find the "spiritual" part of life outside of these rotting shells. One only has to look at the irrational fear caused by "covid" to see that we have a huge populace that believe this body is all we get in life. I'm super happy that I believe in something after this. It allows me to say, "there are some things worse than death " and allows me to stand up and say NO to things I don't agree with.
We - EG Capitalism went broke in 2011 and like Humpty Dumpty who had a great fall "all the Kings Horses and All The Kings Men" couldn't put Humpty together again. Ponerology explains how our situation arose where a small network decided for their betterment instead of bankruptcy billions must die. 1 in 10 is psychopathic. https://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/ponerology/
And yet 'cling to our souls' is ... the incorrect image, imo. The emphasis is best to be open to our souls, hear our souls and allow them to express the truth of who we really are, which is not the woke version of disenhearted care. The challenge is to see through the social crap and woke false educatuon that has blinded most of us to the killing machine our liberal care giving society has become.
Can't see the clip as twitter forbids viewing without registering. So without having seen it, is she just venting stress in the wrong way, perhaps?
Because let me tell you this, when I in my youth worked at a cleaning company which took care of apartments and houses where people had been found lying dead for weeks, and stuff like that, the way we talked and joked and such was very very harsh - but not in public and certainly not on record (of course, no internet and no cell phones back then).
If you had heard how the guys cracked wise when we cleaned up an apartment where an elderly alcoholic had died by setting his couch on fire - passing out drunk while smoking - you'd think we was sociopaths too. That one nearly turned me vegetarian.
Thing about sociopaths/psychopaths, apart from them most often lacking impulse control and sensory-emotional regulatory functions, is they tend to not understand humour at all; they can understand it intellectually. Also, most psychopaths/sociopaths are retarded to severly retarded, having IQs in the lower eighties to the lower sixties - the Hollywood psychopath, charismatic, charming, and intelligent and educated is just that: pure Hollywood.
That's also where the big conspiracy theory of society being run by psychopaths falls apart: they do not co-operate well with others, especially others with the same disorder. Co-operation demands empathy, ability to compromise and to be able to understand the perspective of others (not agreeing with, just understanding); all things psychopathy makes you unable to properly perform.
Oh, the tiny 1-in-1000 that can fake it for awhile might have a career, even some success, but eventually their inhernt sadism and domineering ways comes to the fore.
Speaking of inappropriate humour as a way to vent stress, try eavesdropping to the guys cleaning out the ovens at a crematorium, or sewer divers, or municipal feces-samplers, or veterinairan coprologists - there are lots and lots of jobs and careers that demands an ability to detach the self from the stress as a suvival mechanism, with humour as the catalyst.
But as I said, haven't seen the clip, so I'm not making any claims to that girl in particular. It's just that labelling any and all behaviours that seem unacceptable or even scarily weird as "psychopathy", well it to me it reeks of the mindset behind the term "sluggish schizofrenia" as it used to be used.
This is the result of an upbringing and acculturation that cannot be undone, and it is everywhere. We made a huge mistake when we gave iPads to young children to keep them occupied, then gave them cell phones because all their friends had them. There's no turning back, regrettably. As you note, these are the people who will be operating the institutions upon which we older generations will be dependent on. It's not going to be pretty.
I know people who behave like this. They seem to thrive on platforms and can even appear to have totally normal relationships and thrive in business. However, their entire lives are howling chasms of emptiness. No matter how much they have, "likes," followers, friends, cars, houses, looks, vacation trips, money, or whatever, it is never enough.
It is eerie and beyond sad.
Over the course of the last two and a bit years, I've realized that real heroes aren't venerated, they're despised.
I wonder if she had any emotion left to present to the relatives of the patient who died. I wonder if it even occurred to her. She knows love as a tally of "likes", but does not know that real love is not a popularity contest, and does not care about reactions. Sometimes love is "no". Stated quietly and with no explanation.
First of all, Five Times August is the new Bob Dylan, a true Folk Hero (Folk coming from the German word for “the people”).
Second, this young lady is a product of her social media generation. My kids are of that age and have managed to see through this crap and cyber-narcissism. They are also unvaccinated so there may be something to that. I like to think it’s my constant “STUPID PHONES” ranting (I have at long last ditched mine) but I will give them credit where it’s due: they are critical thinkers.
My suggestion to all parents with young kids: HOME SCHOOL, REMOVE ALL DEVICES and go back to basics. Those that survive will be the “Pioneers” so back to doing everything by hand, with no electricity, no transport, no fuel. Start collecting seeds, build a chicken coop if you can. Teach sewing, canning, knitting, how to make natural Medicines, how to treat wounds, self-defence, hunting with bow and arrow, fishing ALL THAT STUFF. A degree in sociology will provide them with enough ass paper for a day….GET OFF THE TECHNOCRATIC GRID ASAP
quite the narcissist
Oh, that's creepy. Noooooooooo...
Social media is a revamp of the old Zen Koan: if a person dies in a hospital and no nurses post it to Insta... did they really die?
Tho many here may not have a belief system, the fact remains that we now have one or two generations who believe that this human body is all there is. In the past, children were raised with a belief in some kind of afterlife, whether that was resurrection, reincarnation or some variation of that. When people think that "this is it" there's really not much hope. The Beatles sang the song, with a verse that said, Imagine there's no heaven ". Well, we no longer have to imagine what it would be like without the things the Beatles told us to "imagine" living without. We're living it. I didn't grow up in an uber religious household, but we were always encouraged to explore "the unknown" and to find the "spiritual" part of life outside of these rotting shells. One only has to look at the irrational fear caused by "covid" to see that we have a huge populace that believe this body is all we get in life. I'm super happy that I believe in something after this. It allows me to say, "there are some things worse than death " and allows me to stand up and say NO to things I don't agree with.
We - EG Capitalism went broke in 2011 and like Humpty Dumpty who had a great fall "all the Kings Horses and All The Kings Men" couldn't put Humpty together again. Ponerology explains how our situation arose where a small network decided for their betterment instead of bankruptcy billions must die. 1 in 10 is psychopathic. https://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/ponerology/
For the economic catastrophe of 2011: https://stegiel.substack.com/p/the-four-companies-that-control-the?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
Love your posts, Tessa.
And yet 'cling to our souls' is ... the incorrect image, imo. The emphasis is best to be open to our souls, hear our souls and allow them to express the truth of who we really are, which is not the woke version of disenhearted care. The challenge is to see through the social crap and woke false educatuon that has blinded most of us to the killing machine our liberal care giving society has become.
Can't see the clip as twitter forbids viewing without registering. So without having seen it, is she just venting stress in the wrong way, perhaps?
Because let me tell you this, when I in my youth worked at a cleaning company which took care of apartments and houses where people had been found lying dead for weeks, and stuff like that, the way we talked and joked and such was very very harsh - but not in public and certainly not on record (of course, no internet and no cell phones back then).
If you had heard how the guys cracked wise when we cleaned up an apartment where an elderly alcoholic had died by setting his couch on fire - passing out drunk while smoking - you'd think we was sociopaths too. That one nearly turned me vegetarian.
Thing about sociopaths/psychopaths, apart from them most often lacking impulse control and sensory-emotional regulatory functions, is they tend to not understand humour at all; they can understand it intellectually. Also, most psychopaths/sociopaths are retarded to severly retarded, having IQs in the lower eighties to the lower sixties - the Hollywood psychopath, charismatic, charming, and intelligent and educated is just that: pure Hollywood.
That's also where the big conspiracy theory of society being run by psychopaths falls apart: they do not co-operate well with others, especially others with the same disorder. Co-operation demands empathy, ability to compromise and to be able to understand the perspective of others (not agreeing with, just understanding); all things psychopathy makes you unable to properly perform.
Oh, the tiny 1-in-1000 that can fake it for awhile might have a career, even some success, but eventually their inhernt sadism and domineering ways comes to the fore.
Speaking of inappropriate humour as a way to vent stress, try eavesdropping to the guys cleaning out the ovens at a crematorium, or sewer divers, or municipal feces-samplers, or veterinairan coprologists - there are lots and lots of jobs and careers that demands an ability to detach the self from the stress as a suvival mechanism, with humour as the catalyst.
But as I said, haven't seen the clip, so I'm not making any claims to that girl in particular. It's just that labelling any and all behaviours that seem unacceptable or even scarily weird as "psychopathy", well it to me it reeks of the mindset behind the term "sluggish schizofrenia" as it used to be used.
It's parents are far more complicit that you let on.