CHAPTER FIVE
A STATE OF
PSYCHOPATHY
It is probable that you have known of the collectivist mentality since childhood, as your parents are likely to have read out loud the world— famous children’s story released in 1843 written by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The story is thought to be his personal way of describing how society made him feel, living undermined by, and subjected to, the maligned societal norms that prevailed all over Europe in the nineteenth century’s then conservative society. And similar to radical collectivism, in conservatism, everyone has an exact place in society. This suggests that similar conformist conservative norms must have already held society in place.
AN EVERYDAY STORY
While living in Australia, I once meet a Danish couple who had had enough and, therefore, had immigrated. To define the Danish collectivist mentality, one of them stated, “Danes will run a key over the finish of your brand new Mercedes just to state their dissatisfaction with your unequal social status!” The previous story did not really come to mind until I moved back to Denmark.
While in my stay here of less than five years, I have gotten burn marks in two expensive coats while out nights on the town. In addition to meeting a young Danish male one night in a bar who, without any knowledge of the previous story, actually told me about an identical experience of someone who scraped a metal gadget, likely a key, all along the side of his brand new Mercedes. He expressed this incident as the reason why he now votes as far right as possible in Danish politics.
When understood, the universe of psychology is a universe of true mental freedom. Self-esteem and self-confidence are linked, yet they are very different. Self-esteem is somewhat passive and not always easy to detect. Someone with low self-esteem can easily appear confident. Self-esteem describes an individual’s general subconscious perception of one’s own worth: the individual’s perception of oneself and how the individual believes others see and feel about him or her. Self-confidence is dynamic and describes motivation, willingness, and the ability to interact socially.
The human need for socializing, forming friendships, and conforming to society becomes one of collectivism’s strongest weapons. The collectivists stand together as one by utilizing the weapon of guilt, accomplishing dominance, using their friendship to coerce, and excluding or denigrating anyone who is in any way critical toward collectivism.
There is no doubt that people in a country like Denmark, at some point in their lives, stand up against this tyranny. But due to the great need for friendship and acceptance, eventually everyone compromises and ultimately succumbs to collectivism.
In fact, being liberated by high self-esteem proves to be a disadvantage since those who are independent and liberated are not as organized. Individuality is the exact weakness of the right wing. In contrast to the more independent right-wing, the collective human organism has the power of many. They feed off each other’s narcissistic supply: feelings of excessive moral superiority. As a result, when the majority of society’s citizens are first undermined by severe pathological narcissism, it is nearly impossible to win back a political balance. This political balance can only be achieved through will and insight. In short, balance can be accomplished only by psychological means.
Unless the collectivist has actually lived abroad individually for many years, and so has had the opportunity to absorb different cultures, lifestyles, and behaviors for comparison, the person has no means to know any difference and lives with absolute ignorance of the truth. Such people are outwardly unaware of the societal coercion, as well as their severe inferiority complexes that keep them subjected and denigrated. This person will simply react upon them subconsciously either when these rules are broken or when threatened with the truth.
It personally took me almost ten years of traveling, observing, and researching all over the world, while building self-esteem, before I truly started to understand. This demonstrates exactly how strong and powerful the emotional iron grip of collectivism truly is.
This is the exact reason why I feel I can make my next claim: there is no such individual as a truly liberated Dane. If one searches sufficiently enough, one will spot in every Dane a hidden collectivist in any supposedly liberated individualist. Regardless of experiences, everyone in Denmark is in some way compromised by the collective human organism.
In fact, if your first thought was denial of that claim you just read, I offer this curiosity to make myself quite clear: even I am affected, though I have submitted myself through years of self-analysis and educated myself both sociologically and psychologically. Not keeping silent makes it extremely hard to live here. To speak up or attempt to break free of these inhibited societal rules only leads to constant clashes. Revolt only results in complete societal abandonment.
Actually, while writing this book I lost family and collectivist friends, people with whom I have been friends since childhood. In collectivism, you convert or you pay. In reality, you pay anyway. I am likely to lose even more, but in any struggle for change there must come pain, sacrifice, and hardship for a greater value.
One will undoubtedly find plenty of people deprived by narcissism around the world. And as anyone who has actually had an encounter with a narcissist already knows, the experience is undoubtedly unpleasant. However, in a more liberated culture like America’s—because the average American, at least for the time being, has a moderate to strong level of self-esteem—the average individual does not put up with antisocial behavior, making self-improvement vital to climb a social ladder. This suggests why the United States has more serial killers. Besides collectivism’s usual cover-ups or poor investigative police work, antisocial behavior is universal in collectivism; therefore, the maladaptive narcissist is disguised. As a consequence, the narcissist can easily blend in with the rest of the frail populace, giving him or her a much-needed facility for socializing. In contrast, in more liberated cultures the narcissist is quickly singled out and left alone to oneself. This important sense of separation is essentially impossible in collectivism, where society thrives commonly amid maladaptive psychopathic behavior. Eventually, the liberated individual will simply remain passive and say nothing—perfectly driving the continuance of collectivism.
To accomplish social equilibrium and the necessary societal assimilation, it is of utmost importance that there be a true slayer of individualism. Enslaved by oppressive collectivist mentality, the collectivist feels bound to find one’s personal self-esteem elsewhere. There are only a few ways for one to establish self-esteem. One of the most common ways is found through sports. This can also be achieved through narcissistic supply, emotions of moral superiority, and collective affirmation, or by replacing one’s self-esteem with nationalistic feelings.
The Danish youth, in general, is almost in competition as to who is the best at speaking English—generally American English—some with an almost flawless Americanized accent, which for Denmark’s bystander and visiting tourists makes Danes stand out as well educated. Yet, having a debate with a well-educated Dane about even the simplest facts about politics will show a completely different story. Controversially, the reason why these people speak English as well as they do is because this is one of the few places where one can actually evade Marxism’s societal rules in secret, thereby allowing sensations of high self-regard by subconsciously declaring aloud, “I am better than you,” without actually stating it directly.
In contrast to viewing or treating one’s fellow countrymen no differently than any other human being on earth, regardless of standing, race, or nationality—in my view the description of a true individualist— nationalism, where one is devoted to the country’s people, race, bloodline, and land, which in this case the Danes have lived on for millenniums, is therefore an awfully powerful collective force; hence, sensations perfectly utilized in fascism (e.g., Hitler’s “Nazism”). Besides being an absolute slayer of prejudice and racism—caused by chauvinistic feelings of being superior to other races, nationalities, and nations—nationalism is an absolute necessity for success in accomplishing collectivism. No more so than the way we aid people in third-world countries, should people in the Western world have any special treatment or the right to vote themselves to someone else’s assets simply because they share the same nationality. National feelings, nonetheless, provide fictitious solidarity—an essential superficial loyalty—misused by the Marxist to obtain projection (the weapon of guilt) and socialism’s favorable treatment.
Collectivism is only psychological mind-control made absolute through the exploration of the most universal and basic human need: contentment. And what makes collectivism so truly notorious, and the reason why it is absolutely essential to keep people from feeling completely content within themselves, is that collectivism attempts and accomplishes, through the means of manipulism, to destroy individuality by completely replacing the individual’s self-identity with a subconscious collective identity.
Since the Marxist collectivist narcissist is seemingly kept from expressing self-encouragement, which is obvious and enhanced by superiority complex in the often deeply haughty autonomous narcissist— grandiosity is therefore somewhat disguised in democratic socialism through a false sense of humbleness. Believing themselves to be humble, subdued by severe pathological narcissism, Marxists alter reality by seldom expressing self-encouragement. The twist, though, is that the Marxist turns to chauvinism. In addition to the female Marxist who turns to extreme feminist chauvinism, the Marxist turns the narcissistic trends into encouraging excessive collective and national admiration. Identified in virtually all forms of collectivism, even though each trend is felt collectively, the feelings are the same: fantasies of collective and national superiority.
As a result, no matter how hypocritical it may sound, suppressive collective mentality purposely allows the Marxist, who is otherwise seemingly not allowed to feel superiority, to feel grandiose and self-important by demeaning or criticizing other nationalities, lifestyles, traditions, or ways of thinking. Marxists, and collectivists in general, are inclined to reject that any other nation could be even slightly better or at least on equal footing. This allows the collectivist to distort reality and create a falsified self-esteem via excessive nationalistic affirmation. Thus is national collective admiration, or narcissistic supply, achieved through feeling superiority over other nationalities. By replacing their low self-esteem with strong collective and nationalistic feelings—a collective ego, “a madness shared by many,” also referred to in psychiatry as “shared psychotic disorder”—collectivists have once again empowered the unity and assimilation of the collective human organism.
Anyone can properly relate to rooting for one’s team or sharing a united team spirit with other team supporters. Yet to collectivists, the feeling is so intense that the accomplishment feels like one’s own. Indeed, everything Danish is seen to be superior—hospitals and education, food and customs. It is worthless to attempt to persuade Danes otherwise, and virtually impossible to do so. Identical to religious people who worship God, Danes worship their country; and they even place the national flag, similar to a religious symbol, on birthday cakes and Christmas trees.
Truly annoying is the Danes’ excessive and constant need to talk about how wonderful Denmark is and how much better we Danes are and our nation of Denmark is compared to other places. Excessive collective admiration (magical thinking) results in arrogant conclusions that are generally constructed from assumptions rather than from actual knowledge. All of this is part of a pathological mind game to completely disable any skepticism, questionability, or criticism toward authorities or society’s structure. And with half the service levels at a cost of living that is at least double, and more generally triple, that of the United States’ prices, one could ask rhetorically whether these people are deeply delusional.
Narcissistic tendencies (Collective Narcissism and National Chauvinism)
Grandiosity and self-importance, e.g., exaggerates national or collective achievements, skills, and talents to the point of lying; takes for granted that others see this prominence (e.g., immigrants or tourists); downgrades other nationalities, lifestyles, traditions, or ways of thinking, etc. in an unreasonable manner
Preoccupation with success, e.g., fantasies of brilliance (nationally or ideologically), or beauty (e.g., Danish women are the world’s most beautiful; Danes are the world’s most intelligent, etc.)
Believes that he or she is special, e.g., feels unique and can only be understood by, and should only associate with, one’s fellow countrymen and collectivists, i.e., feels nationally superior to immigrants and other nationalities
Requires excessive admiration, e.g., displays nationalistic and moral superiority; takes for granted that others see this greatness; expects adulation, attention, or affirmation (narcissistic supply); expects to be rewarded by tourists and immigrants with national and moral admiration, etc.
Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., demands automatic and full compliance with his or her expectations; has expectations of unreasonable favorable treatment (e.g., over third-world people, “starving Africans,” or newcomers)
Exploitative of others, e.g., interpersonality (chameleon), elusive, pathological lying; cunningly kind to tourists, etc., all for collective and national promotional gain
Lack of empathy, e.g., unable to or unwilling to identify with the feelings of other nationalities, lifestyles, preferences, priorities, traditions, or ways of thinking (e.g., the Muhammad cartoon crisis)
Envious, e.g., bears a grudge toward successful nations of better psychological and economic standing; resentful toward newcomers, i.e., fugitives, receiving equally entitled benefits, etc.
Arrogance, e.g., displays regular negative attitudes, haughty, snobby, compulsively judgmental, and opinionated; omniscient, highly conclusive about other nations and nationalities in which the individual has factually never been to or has inside knowledge of (magical thinking); projects regularly, tries to dump shame upon others (the weapon of guilt), and hypersensitive to collective or national criticism: rages when contradicted, confronted, or disapproved of
Marxists, and collectivists in general, misuse their message, but will do anything to persuade mankind otherwise. They masquerade as humanists, and selfless altruists, and as those who care for society’s weakest. However, collectivists totally lack empathy. While this emotion, or rather lack of emotion, is generally hard to observe, collectivists are completely irrational and cunning. Collectivists are driven by tremendous sensations of self-righteousness. A collectivist’s high self-regard, envy, arrogance, and entitlement, driven by severe pathological narcissism, completely take over emotionally. In reality, the only empathy Marxist narcissists have is what relates directly to their personal needs and desires. Marxists have a complete lack of rationality (magical thinking), which therefore results in an absolute lack of empathy. However, Machiavellian egocentricity is employed by framing their motivation through superficial sympathy as care for society’s weakest—as a tool of projection (the weapon of guilt) to dump shame on others. This not only allows the Marxist to feel morally superior—in addition to creating a personal pathological illusion by diverting the truth away from personal self-interests and co-dependence, which ultimately allows the Marxist justification for exploitation of society for personal gain—but also creates a perfect illusion of being empathetic.
Referred to in generic terms as egomaniacs, psychopathic narcissists and narcissist-sociopaths lack empathy. However, narcissists are not necessarily sociopaths, yet sociopaths are always narcissists. The sociopath, who is often the result of traumatic childhood events such as excessive neglect, physical or mental abuse, or incest, is completely unable to feel remorse or identify with feelings of others, whereas the psychopathic narcissist can. Narcissists have strong emotions; however, their empathy stretches no further than their ego. Anything is disregarded except what they can identify in themselves or what involves their self-pity or personal needs. They feel love and therefore protect themselves from feeling less worthy by means of mental coercion. They will continuously drag other people into their deprived pathological mind games, using illusion and methods of ambient abuse to distort reality and truth. They achieve intimidation by degrading and demeaning others in frequently cunning and obscured ways, thereby spreading mental illness by lowering society’s self-esteem, thus achieving co-dependency. All this suffices to endlessly nurture Marxism’s collective human organism, the world’s biggest sect.
Collectivism is history’s utmost elusive criminal mind game, created by a syndicate of self-pitying parasitical narcissists who feel excessively entitled. They so much believe themselves to be right that they presume the authority to force their views upon others. It has resulted in an infinite evil circle of emotional terrorism. Those who foster manipulism are masters at creating puppeteers who in turn create more puppets. The puppeteer is the collectivist’s everyday occupation.
Were it not for the fact that narcissism—named megalomania prior to when narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) was first formulated by Austrian-born American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut in 1968—one might wonder if “Nazism,” a contraction of national socialism, was not in fact misspelled.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they
don’t need it and hell where they already have it.”
—RONALD REAGAN