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Object Relations: Fear Of Success Pt. 7-3

Accusation In A Mirror

The most relevant example of projection in politics was covered in the paper Accusation in a Mirror, by Kenneth L. Marcus, and he explained the conscious awareness of these tactics, the strategies involved, and their aims. "Accusation In A Mirror (AiM) is a rhetorical practice in which one falsely accuses one’s enemies of conducting, plotting, or desiring to commit precisely the same transgressions that one plans to commit against them...AiM has historically been an almost invariable harbinger of genocide. [It] has been commonly used in atrocities committed by Nazis, Serbs, and Hutus, among others. This is a peculiar feature, not of genocide, but of AiM since non-genocidal forms of AiM have also been ubiquitous with respect to other forms of persecution."

For many people, they can see a projection of this enormity if they pay attention to politics and watch news stories unfold with continuity, but what about people who aren't political junkies and are busy with their lives? Marcus described this odd strategy and how it can work with people who are unconscious of the motives. They all steer a population into a fear state where the only response is to be pre-emptive, which is ultimately an incitement for one side and a chilling effect on the targets. The goals are "...to shock, to silence, to threaten, to insulate, and, finally, to motivate or incite...[and] do unto others as they would do unto you..."

Leon Mugesera sentenced to life for 'inciting' genocide in Rwanda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrVyinrD8s

The stigma surrounding Christine Anderson - True North: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ETB-y_FKds

Hillary Clinton Says Trump Poses Danger to America's Democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-N0dHJAaE

Clinton calls for ‘deprogramming’ of MAGA ‘cult members’: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DH3SgIY7S5A

Tucker Carlson - "Always trust your gut." - https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1727090631850492257

Brace Yourself For What's Coming in 2024 - Victor Davis Hanson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V6jH-6F6K0&t=630s

When AiM is first used the first effect that is intended is to shock. "No one tells Holocaust survivors—or a nation of Holocaust survivors and their children—that they are Nazis without expecting to shock. The same can be said of the inversive accusations leveled at Bosnians, Tutsis, and Copts." As mentioned on prior episodes where Social Psychologist Susan Fiske was quoted, there's an inherent trust in accusations in that people believe that they must be true, otherwise why would they lie? The target then is afraid that there will be a confirmation of guilt if there's a strong response to the unjust accusation, meaning the strength of the response becomes a confirmation of the accusation. Silence follows because the targets are "...afraid of seeming too powerful." The freezing of any response to the outrage is also a threat of being disciplined. "...Ascription of guilt carries with it the threat of punishment." As the freezing continues, the outrage of the false accusation can insulate because it is treated as a legitimate accusation. Kenneth described how "holocaust inversion has been protected from normal anti-discrimination enforcement by its ability to replicate or mimic the tropes of a dissident political discourse." AiM at this point can swirl around without too much violence until the perpetrators are able to legitimize their arguments. The difficulty is to be able to manufacture a danger to the population that Aim needs for incitement. False flags need to operate where people who are on the side of AiM dress up as the targets and they say and approve those shocking comments to bring reality to the false pretenses. "With such a tactic, propagandists can persuade listeners and 'honest people' that they are being attacked and are justified in taking whatever measures are necessary 'for legitimate self-defense.'" Something that is not in the paper, but could be easily inferred is the use of mentally ill people who can be incited much easier. If they can say those shocking things with ease, and even more, if they commit an act of violence, it can catch a population unawares and goad them towards pre-emptive attacks that are worse. "AiM is motivating or inciting. That is to say, AiM not only provides a reason or justification for aggression, as other less effective forms of incitement also do; more insidiously, it also communicates to the listener that it is necessary to attack another group in order to avoid having the same fate visited upon one’s own community...Other rhetorical techniques such as demonization can make mass-murder seem acceptable, but AiM makes it appear necessary."

Biden delivers address outside Independence Hall on 'extremist threat to democracy': https://www.youtube.com/live/XC-k-lhml4o?si=a96yknsZ44SGxhZF

Naomi Wolf: Joe Biden Demonized Almost Half Of The American Nation With Speech Meant For Unity: https://rumble.com/v1iklcj-naomi-wolf-joe-biden-demonized-almost-half-of-the-american-nation-with-spee.html

Laura Loomer uncovers Massive Conspiracy: Nazi Terrorists being Protected by FBI & CIA - InfoWars: https://rumble.com/v3gp88q-laura-loomer-uncovers-massive-conspiracy-nazi-terrorists-being-protected-by.html

Joe Rogan's Opinion On Patriot Front: "You Ever Seen Anything That Looks More Like Feds?": https://rumble.com/v188ksx-joe-rogans-opinion-on-patriot-front-you-ever-seen-anything-that-looks-more-.html

A New Development in the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Trial: https://rumble.com/v3hzmfa-a-new-development-in-the-gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-trial.html

Why politicians, the military, governments, businesses, or even gangsters want to use any of these techniques is because they all want a monopoly of one kind or another, which is their idea of success. All the manipulation and bullying that one finds in school extends into the adult world. Corrupt people are always looking for an angle, and the unaware, the distracted, or the busy, don't know what's happening until their dreams start to shatter. Now that we have moved from the ancient past to recent history it's time to face modern politics of power and money to see how it can chase you down, even when you are living life inconspicuously.

Psycho-Political-Economics

"It's Friday and I'm mad as fuck...When was America ever great? Did you all forget that underneath my President Donald Trump we were the biggest producer of crude oil in the fucking world and now we ain't got no gas four months later are y'all serious?

Anybody else need their fucking Trump back? When was America ever great? We had gas. We had electricity. We had jobs. We had food. Now we sitting at home with no gas, some people no electricity, no jobs, waiting for a stimulus check, waiting on the goddamn extra food stamps. What's going on?

We wasn't going through this shit for the last four years. We were winning, winning, winning, winning and all ya'll sitting home being quiet and shit. Now somebody say something. Tell me why the fuck you support Joe Biden. Right now! Everybody want to get rid of fucking President Trump. What's up?

Look at this goofy ass shit. People ain't got shit to say no more, just sitting around like sheep, goofy ass sheep. All they can do is wait. All they can do is wait. All they can do is fucking wait. The Democrats tell us that they got a Green New Deal for 2030. You ain't got no fucking plans for everything to run off electricity in 10 years. You DO got a plan to fuck up everything within the next 10 years.

I want my goddamn Trump back...Everybody had a lot to say when Trump was in the White House. Ain't anybody got shit to say with this fucking old ass bum in there. Fucking about fucking country fucking up the economy. These motherfuckers projected that we gonna have a million new jobs, two hundred thousand new jobs, and where the fuck are they at? Probably two hundred thousand illegal immigrants that you motherfuckers proud about the border got new jobs, but we don't. We hurting in America!

Everybody quiet as shit! Where the fuck are the Joe Biden supporters? I can tell ya'll why I support Trump. Tell me why ya'll support this motherfucker? Ain't doing shit but fucking us up everyday, fucking us up...

When was America ever great? I guarantee you motherfuckers could wish you could go back to the day that Donald Trump won. That was a good fucking day. You might was mad in your fucking mind but I bet your ass was on the way to work. I bet you was on your fucking way to work. I bet you weren't standing at a fucking gas station looking for gas. I bet you wasn't waiting for a fucking stimulus check. I bet you weren't waiting for an extra $300 on your fucking food stamps. I bet you!

I'm pissed! The people walking around anybody saying shit. Everybody had a lot of fucking energy when Trump was the fucking president, a lot of fucking energy. It was never their plan for Trump to win. For four years they've been brainwashing ya'll to get rid of Trump so they could do what the fuck they want to do...

We right back to where we was four years ago! What part ya'll don't get? You made a mistake! You made a fucking mistake! 'Get rid of Trump,' stop Trump for what? We right back to where we was four years ago, drawing lines in the sand, people with motherfucking Russia, bombing the fucking Middle East. All types of kids coming across our fucking borders, all this shit to we're trying to stop.

Can't tell me shit better for you. You can't tell me nothing is better for you underneath your body. Not nothing is better for you. You sitting at home waiting for more fucking money on your food stamps. You had $300 worth of food stamps and now you got $800 worth of stamps that the Democrats want your ass depended upon them. I want to go the fuck to work, well I'm at work, but I want my motherfucking peoples to go to work! This is fucking stupid!"

SemoreViews "I Want My Trump Back!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqxwWXqRkA

In the modern world, as in the past, conflicts don't just appear out of nowhere. They come from people pursuing their self-interests and the interests of their family and friends. For example, in the micro you might witness nepotism and cronyism in your workplace. This can expand into alliances and cultures throughout governments and businesses and then spill over internationally. Summarizing from the René Girard chapter above, if you are in a weak position where you can't retaliate in anyway or fight back, you tend to be scapegoated and any aggression can vent itself on those individuals or groups through scapegoating. Boring contract disputes can suddenly be not so boring when the consequences are different groups turning to resentment when left behind. In economics, money is a form of power that allows one to access resources and relieve the tension of poverty for extended periods of time. If tensions cannot be released and if emotions can't be regulated, pathological behaviors ensue. Some people commit crimes, others turn to court systems, and if there are no laws that protect individuals, then gangsterism moves into the forefront, with politics being a legalized form of gangsterism. If all those avenues fail, especially if there is a violent incitement, war typically breaks out until a negotiation for peace can be arranged.

In the 21st century, economically there is still a 20th century hangover from the period after WWII, the rise of the United States, and then trade with Asia. Throughout this thread psychologically there is always one common denominator: People don't like being disrespected. The area that is not so common is for people to give respect to others at the same level they demand for themselves. This all relates to power and as the tables turn, the actor parts may change, but the complaints don't and are based on the same power differentials.

These cycles have been with us since the beginning of human awareness, as can be seen in the prior chapter on human ancestry. You can either produce what you need to consume, trade what you produced with others, or steal what you don't have through violent means. In the modern world, violence and theft has typically been denounced and trade has been considered the adult way of distributing resources. You can imagine the complexity of Freudian psychoanalysis and how everyone is trading with everyone else to satisfy libido, or cravings, which is essentially an energy exchange. Cravings always return but the ability to produce for oneself may not always be reliable, with the predictable mental health results.

As these cycles have returned again and again, along with war and strife, many theories arose on how to deal with conflicts. Almost all the theories involve some satiation that has to happen in the mind. When I'm hungry and I eat, I am satisfied for a few hours, until the hunger returns. If there's abundance there's a risk for addiction, and when there's poverty there can be a scarcity mindset and an escalating hostility. This is a tenuous balance where a people in an environment without social supports will want to save a lot of money, but then in order to earn a return they need to invest it in others, incurring a risk. As economies developed into the 20th century, tax and social support structures were developed from Marxist ideas as well as other older socialist ideas. Some countries went further with more centralized systems, but the fear of corruption has always hounded any centralized power scenario. The west settled for a solution where the government and the private sector negotiated repeatedly the different areas where it appeared that one side or another was best situated. Leaders in the private sector showed a distain for anything not related to the bottom line and they liked the simplicity of paying taxes so that others could deal with the homelessness, poverty, core social programs for education and healthcare, with cultural differences in each western country.

With the industrial revolution and the abundance that was offered for those who worked hard, some countries outperformed others. Some of this had to do with borders, domestic resources, and intellectual capital. Governments learned that if they didn't kill the goose that laid the golden egg they could get more tax revenue from less than 50% taxes rather than greater than or 100% government ownership. Humans are generally reward oriented and rationing systems tend to be jealous and miserly. In environments like the latter, motivation to work reduces, and since money is simply a medium of exchange, to decrease the limitations inherent in a barter system, less production = less wealth. This was a big problem for the Soviet Union, and as it collapsed, there were many triumphant theories on how the way of the West would influence the rest of the developing world.

The main Communist country that avoided that fate was China. Being very close to a similar fate as the Soviets, as seen after the Tiananmen Square riots, the U.S. went in the direction of working with the government, much to the chagrin of freedom protestors in China who complained about government corruption. The students protesting the government had sympathy from leaders like Zhao Ziyang who was the most supportive of liberal reforms and a successor to Hu Yaobang who was also in favor of market reforms. Unfortunately Deng Xiaoping and other party members felt threatened by the power shift. Deng determined that "'the entire imperialist Western world plans to make all socialist countries discard the socialist road and then bring them under the control of international monopoly capital and onto the capitalist road'; he stated further that if China did not up hold socialism then it would be turned into an appendage of the capitalist countries." The protest crackdown led to thousands of casualties, but the total number of dead has been an ongoing controversy. In A World Transformed, Deng was explicitly admitting the desire to punish when he told the U.S. that "China will persist in punishing those instigators of the rebellion and its behind-the-scenes boss in accordance with Chinese laws. China will by no means waver in its resolution of this kind. Otherwise how can the PRC continue to exist?" The protest never got the support it needed to overthrow the Communist regime, and the rest is history.

When Globalism was born - Jack Posobiec: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1608528342843592706

From George H.W. Bush, through Clinton and the younger Bush, China did liberalize the economy but not without protections for the political class. By the time China entered the World Trade Organization, they were given most-favored-nation status by the U.S. which allowed them to setup a mercantilist system where they were able to protect their markets while having access to western markets under a system of slave labor that tempted corporations and owners of capital to take advantage of the increased profits. The loss in jobs in the west was dubbed the China Trade Shock.

China Trade Shock: https://chinashock.info/

Since that time, many trade experts could not avoid noticing the changes, including former trade advisor to President Donald Trump, Robert Lighthizer. He grew up in an affluent manufacturing area in Ohio, but then saw the devastation since the North American Free Trade Agreement and China's WTO inclusion. "We had lost millions of jobs and thousands of factories while wages had stagnated." Despite the obvious destruction that was happening, there was not enough of a push to reverse what happened. "The political establishments of both the Republican and Democratic parties, under the influence of multinational corporations and importers, were unwilling or unable to recognize their mistakes. Instead, they remained convinced that rather than protect American workers and manufacturers, government policy had to put them at risk amid a quest to maximize corporate profits and economic efficiency while minimizing consumer prices."

The difficulty of course is that cheap prices only matter when you have a good paying job. If you are displaced and have to renegotiate wages to a lower level, the result is that nothing is cheap. "While corporate profits soared for a select group of importers and retailers, many of America’s manufacturing companies were hollowed out—forced either into bankruptcy or into moving their factories abroad. And what about ordinary Americans? Though prices for some products declined, wage growth in this country has utterly stagnated since the 1980s—driven in large part by the decline of manufacturing sector employment. As a result, increasingly, working-class families must rely on two full-time incomes in lower-end service sector jobs to maintain the same quality of life one manufacturing sector income once provided. It is no exaggeration to say that American leaders traded the health of the US industrial base and the good-paying manufacturing jobs it supported for current consumption and little more."

Lighthizer was a trade lawyer and he felt that a more nuanced view was required that looked at how skills are developed and the variety of jobs available. People have different personality types, different levels of skill and intelligence. The new model always relied on cheap products from Asia while workers without a super value-added education in the area of high tech could only try to get reeducated or work more hours in service jobs. The manufacturing gap was neglected and in many ways it still is. "When all citizens—including those without college degrees—have a chance to be productive, it’s good for the country...International trade, like all economic policy, is beneficial only if it contributes to the well-being of most of our citizens, if it makes families stronger, and if it makes our communities better...I feel strongly that the course we set for trade policy must rest on a more complete and nuanced understanding of the effects of international trade in the United States—and throughout the world—than can be captured by the question of how much we pay for televisions and toys."

For many Gen-Xers and later generations, they found that when they left school that finding a job that matched their education was exceedingly difficult compared to what baby boomers experienced. They found little sympathy from economists and politicians of any stripe. "Advocates for free trade seemed to accept the growing distress in so many manufacturing-centered communities with the easy assurance of those whose understanding of the calamity was wholly theoretical. It was also hard to dismiss the sense that the proponents of free trade whose voices were heard the most were not trying very hard to see the reality of those costs in the context of the people and families whose lives were affected. Impersonal, inexorable market forces provided an acceptable fig leaf for the turn to globalization that was always the preferred course regardless." Since increased profits from lower wages, and wages being the largest expense on an income statement for most companies, owners didn't have a vested interest in changing their good fortunes. Profits are either given to owners in dividends or reinvested. "New jobs would develop in new industries that would grow. Workers would move to new locations. Government job training would fix any remaining problems. Everything will work out, they said and continue to say. By the time that it became apparent that everything was not working out and that there were devastating costs to many communities, most people in DC didn’t worry very much, because it was all happening someplace far away to people they didn’t know. Nothing useful could be done to hold back the tides of inexorable market forces. This was all aided, of course, by the fact that many in the Washington business trade associations had become far more concerned with the interests of importers than those of US manufacturers. The lobbying money was on the side of free trade."

Even more, popular presidents like Ronald Reagan were quoted all the time and used as a baton to bash critics of free trade, but "President Reagan distinguished between free trade in theory and free trade in practice. He imposed quotas on imported steel, protected Harley-Davidson from Japanese competition, restrained imports of semiconductors and automobiles, took on the overvalued dollar, and pursued similar steps to keep American industry strong during the 1980s. Indeed, after he left office, one group of rabid libertarian free traders said that he was the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover. I can’t hide the fact that I always took that as a compliment...The costs and benefits of trade liberalization were calibrated relative to national interests and changing political circumstances. No one would have argued for free trade and economic interdependence with the Soviet Union."

Donald Trump Teases a President Bid During a 1988 Oprah Show | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

In glib news reports of Chinese trade practices, many in the world ignored what was going on and focused on cheaper prices. The access to world markets for China was much larger than what China allowed on their turf for the rest of the world. "The reality is that it is a mercantilist nation that wants to impose its system on the world. It is opposed to the liberal democratic order and wants to put an end to American hegemony...The post–World War II strategy of reducing barriers to imports in return for the hope of new exports seriously went off the rails in the 1990s. The United States placed an all-or-nothing bet on free trade in the form of three consecutive deals. Since that time, we have seen the loss of millions of jobs and exploding trade deficits. The United States needs to insist on fair trade in our market and reciprocal access in foreign markets. Decades of poor trade deals have produced neither. We need a policy that assures balanced trade. We cannot afford to continue to transfer our wealth to foreign countries in return for consumer products. These are the realities...Extensive state ownership, enormous state subsidies, a closed home market, currency manipulation, rampant government-sponsored theft of intellectual property, and every other mercantilist practice. Trade deficits skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. We were allowing China, a foreign adversary, to use all forms of state-sponsored, government-organized unfair trade to run up a more than $270 billion trade surplus with us and to take US jobs in the process...The 'China shock...was so severe that even the usual advocates for trade started to get a little nervous."

Conservative critic of modern schooling and abstract economic theories, Charlie Kirk, had to renounce his old opinions because reality couldn't be ignored. "If I had to indict philosophical libertarianism, of which I used to believe a lot of this stuff, because it's young. It's compelling. You read Ayn Rand. You read Hayek, and some of it's interesting, and some of it I still agree with, but a lot of it is nonsense because it's an indifference to the result." The results of course affect the psychology of the displaced, which moves out of scope for so many globalist economists. "Between 2000 and 2016, the United States lost nearly five million manufacturing jobs. Median household income stagnated. And in the places that prosperity left behind, the fabric of society frayed. Since the mid-1990s, the United States has faced an epidemic of what the economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton have termed 'deaths of despair.' They have found that among white middle-aged adults who lack a college education—a demographic that has borne much of the brunt of offshoring—deaths from cirrhosis of the liver increased by 50 percent between 1999 and 2013, suicides increased by 78 percent, and drug and alcohol overdoses increased by 323 percent. From 2014 to 2017, the increase in deaths of despair led to the first decrease in life expectancy in the United States over a three-year period since the 1918 flu pandemic." For those who ignored those results, often by blaming the people for being morally inferior, there were other arguments about the benefits of currying favor with enemies to change their tune, but like in situation with Deng Xiaoping, the trade negotiations changed the West much more. "One hears about the need for America to use its economic prowess to gain friends and to influence events. We need to trade more—read: import more—so that other countries will like us instead of, say, China. For others, trade is really about obtaining the cheapest products for our consumers. For these people, if the result is the loss of manufacturing and related jobs, that is a fair exchange. Cheap televisions trump American factories." There was also an argument based on fears related to trade protectionism before the U.S. entrance into WWII. "Anything other than full-throated support for free trade was regarded as a throwback to protectionism and isolationism, as well as an invitation to trade wars."

Charlie Kirk: The CATO Institute Deserves No Seat In The Conservative Movement: https://rumble.com/v1n00vo-charlie-kirk-the-cato-institute-deserves-no-seat-in-the-conservative-moveme.html

Adam Posen and displaced workers: https://humanevents.com/2022/10/09/posobiec-ultra-capitalist-adam-posen-admits-he-wants-your-family-to-suffer-so-elites-and-ccp-can-get-richer

Gen Z chicks are finding out that their college degrees are totally worthless - Benny Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vT6FMnIj3C4

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danbenzvi · 1 year ago

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On The Jukebox: Olivia Newton-John - "Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection Volume Two"

Featuring guest appearances from John Farnham (on "Dare To Dream"), Cliff Richard (on "Everybody's Someone"), Andy Gibb (on "Rest Your Love On Me"), Dionne Warwick (on "Wishin' And Hopin'), Marie Osmond (on "Getting Better All The Time"), The Raybon Brothers (on "Falling"), Anne Murray (on "Cotton Jenny"), Johnny O'Keefe (on "I'm Counting On You"), Peter Allen (on "Tenterfield Saddler"), David Campbell (on "I Will Be Right Here"), Chloe Lattanzi (on "You Have To Believe") and Dave Aude (on "You Have To Believe").

[There's a thin line between "deep cut" and "barrel scraping". This collection is on the wrong side of that line a little too often.]

#olivia newton john #just the two of us #the duets collection #volume two #john farnham #cliff richard #andy gibb #dionne warwick #marie osmond #the raybon brothers #anne murray #johnny o'keefe #peter allen #david campbell #chloe lattanzi #dave aude

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frostedmagnolias · 10 months ago

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Beaded gray wedding dress

c. 1891

Made By: Molloy, Mary Abigal O'Keefe

Minnesota Historical Society

#in LOVE #Victorian fashion #historical fashion #fashion history #vintage wedding dress #wedding dress #Victorian dress #frostedmagnolias #gray #grey #1890s

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libraincarnate · 11 months ago

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astrology notes: 18 (love quotes) 🦇‧₊⁺⭒

quick note: i'm absolutely not an astrologer and this post is just for fun. i understand that some of these quotes or excerpts may not be about love when you consider the full context of the poem or work of literature, but this is how i am intepreting and applying them without context. lastly, keep in mind that i'm not reading your birth chart and i know nothing about you. these are just quotes that remind me of the signs so you may or may not be able to relate to them. enjoy!

𓆩♡𓆪 aries:

“If we meet each other in Hell, it’s not Hell.”

— Geoffrey Hill, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012

𓆩♡𓆪 taurus:

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity...”

— George Orwell, 1984 ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 gemini:

“The next day I write him one of the most human notes he has ever received: no intellect, just words about his voice, his laughter, his hands.”

— Anaïs Nin, from Henry and June: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

𓆩♡𓆪 cancer:

“…Your chest is becoming the field I want to be buried in.”

— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, from The Year of No Mistakes: “Atlas”

𓆩♡𓆪 leo:

“Attention is the beginning of devotion."

― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays 🦇

𓆩♡𓆪 virgo:

Pylades: I’ll take care of you.

Orestes: It’s rotten work.

Pylades: Not to me. Not if it’s you.

― Orestes by Euripides from An Oresteia, translated by Anne Carson

𓆩♡𓆪 libra:

“If there is life after the earth-life, will you come with me? Even then? Since were bound to be something, why not together.”

― Mary Oliver, from “West Wind” ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 scorpio:

“They had made love in every possible way, or so they believed, and they theorized about new ways but came up only with death.”

― Roberto Bolaño, from '2666', translated by Natasha Wimmer

𓆩♡𓆪 sagittarius:

"All roads lead to you even those I took to forget you."

― Mahmoud Darwish 🦇

𓆩♡𓆪 capricorn:

“She turned to me and said, ‘hold me’. So I dropped the world I had been holding and picked her up with both hands.”

― Zachry K Douglas ↟♡↟

𓆩♡𓆪 aquarius:

“I feel the distance between myself and others. I guard that distance … But when you move away from me, even just the least bit, a blackness descends upon me, I feel engulfed.”

— Henry Miller, "A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller 1932-1953"

𓆩♡𓆪 pisces:

“I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.”

— Edwin Morgan, When You Go 🦇

this was just something cute and extra since I haven’t posted anything in a while. if you read this until the end i hope you enjoyed it & thank you so much for reading. ♥︎♥︎♥︎, those hearts are for you.

#astrology #astrology observations #astro observations #astrology notes #astro notes #libraincarnate

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qqueenofhades · 8 months ago

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top ten non-fiction (general) books and top ten history books?

Naturally, whenever I volunteer to talk about books, I completely forget everything I have ever read, but we'll try to overcome this. Since it is impossible for me to pick them from all-time, I'll do this list from what I have recently read and enjoyed, including both nonfiction and history specifically since most of these fit that bill somehow:

Society of the Snow by Pablo Vierci. Just finished this last night, and it's the source material for the Netflix film of the same name, of the 1972 plane crash of an Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes and their incredible survival odyssey. If you've seen the film, you know how harrowing and also incredibly moving it is.

Pretty much anything by David Grann, including The Wager, Killers of the Flower Moon, Lost City of Z, etc. The Wager is his newest one, though people may have heard of Killers of the Flower Moon, but they're all good. He's up there with Erik Larson as one of my favorite writers of utterly gripping and novelistic nonfiction.

Speaking of Erik Larson: pretty much anything by, including Dead Wake, The Splendid and the Vile, In the Garden of Beasts, etc. Most people will have heard of and/or read Devil in the White City, but his other stuff is equally good. His newest, The Demon of Unrest, is a bit slower than some of the others IMHO, but it's also about the beginning of the Civil War and the crisis at Fort Sumter and is important reading in our current perilous moment.

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham. A forensic and incredibly detailed history of the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986.

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, by Anthony Bale. This is an entertaining and readable introduction to mobility in the Middle Ages: who traveled, where they went, what they thought, and how they reacted and wrote about the other cultures they encountered, from both east and west. Definitely a good entry point for the layman who has heard the "medieval people never traveled/went anywhere" stereotype and knows it's wrong, but wants to know more HOW.

Into the Silence: Mallory, the Great War, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis. Another incredibly detailed doorstopper history book that reads like a novel, exploring 19th-century British imperialism in Asia, the race to climb Mount Everest, the Great War, and more.

Emperor of Rome and SPQR by Mary Beard. These are both incredibly accessible starting points for studying Rome, written by a renowned classicist with a knack for making her historical material and concepts easy to understand and entertaining. Don't be put off by the length of either of these, as they read easily.

The Wide Wide Sea and The Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides. The former is his newest book, about the last voyage of Captain Cook, and the latter is my favorite of his other books, about the 19th-century USS Jeannette polar expedition. He is a writer of incredible skill, thoughtfulness, and detail in handling subjects of empire, exploration, colonialism, maritime history, and adventure.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Raddon O'Keefe. A compelling, disturbing, mesmerizing, and infuriating account of the Sackler family, the creation of OxyContin, and the opioid epidemic in America.

Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo. Now, this one is a bit cheating since I haven't actually read it yet (it's on hold at the library), but it's won the Pulitzer Prize for history so I'm fairly sure it's going to be good. It's about 19th century slaves-turned-abolitionists William and Ellen Craft and their race- and gender-bending journey to freedom and anti-slavery activism.

#anonymous #ask #history #book recs

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the-bi-library · 9 months ago

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Happy pride month!! Here are bisexual books out in June! 🩷💜💙 Books listed: Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba The Fall of Elijah Gray (Moonlight Falls, #0.5) by Colette Rivera The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3) by Megan E. O'Keefe Pole Position by Rebecca J. Caffery Digging for Destiny (Dragon Circle, #2) by Jenna Jarvis The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye by Briony Cameron But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson Shadows Dark and Deadly (Red Society Series Book 1) by Andrea Marie Johnson Hot Summer by Elle Everhart All Friends Are Necessary by Tomas Moniz Where Willows Weep by Luna Fiore Dandelion by Merlina Garance One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans Napkins and Other Distractions (Teachers in Love, #3) by M.A. Wardell Bi-Partisan (District Love #1) by Dallas Smith Furious by Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos Blame It On The Stars by Elle Bennett Ballad for Jasmine Town by Molly Ringle Old Enough by Haley Jakobson (paperback edition) Accidentally Dominating the Vampire's Assistant by Cat Giraldo Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland Breaks Volume 2 (Breaks, #2) by Emma Vieceli and Malin Rydén

Only Fan Service by Cat Giraldo Something to be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke

Heirs of Destruction (The Crownkiller Saga, #1) by T.N. Vitus London on My Mind by Clara Alves The Pecan Children by Quinn Connor A Divine Fury (Cesare Aldo, #4) by D.V. Bishop The Unrelenting Earth (Rages, #2) by Kritika H. Rao

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That moment, I felt something I had never experienced before: pride.

It wasn't because I had suddenly become the toast of our café society. No, it was seeing the look on Cicely's face. I was her creation, and that she was pleased filled me with happiness. Kafka and Mary, Abe and Sally, me and the muse of poetry.

Life seemed full of promise. But we were deceived. Stars, you know, burn their brightest just before they disappear forever.

#northern exposure #nx #darren e. burrows #yvonne suhor #rob morrow #janine turner #cynthia geary #john cullum #ned svenbourg #cicely #franz kafka #mary o'keefe #abe #sally #3x23 cicely

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battyaboutbooksreviews · 8 months ago

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💙💜💖 Bi Books Coming Out June 2024

💖💜💙 Do you know what we could always use a little more of? Bi books! Here are a few coming out in June that would make fabulous additions to your never-ending TBR! Happy reading!

💖 But How Are You, Really - Ella Dawson 💜 Something to be Proud Of - Anna Zoe Quirke 💙 One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans

💖 Ballad for Jasmine Town - Molly Ringle 💜 Saints of Storm and Sorrow - Gabriella Buba 💙 The Pecan Children - Quinn Connor

💖 The Unrelenting Earth - Kritika H. Rao 💜 A Divine Fury - D.V. Bishop 💙 The Last Note of Warning - Katharine Schellman

💖 Mirrored Heavens - Rebecca Roanhorse 💜 The Fall of Elijah Gray - Colette Rivera 💙 The Bound Worlds - Megan E. O'Keefe

💖 Pole Position - Rebecca J. Caffery 💜 Digging for Destiny - Jenna Jarvis 💙 Shadows Dark and Deadly - Andrea Marie Johnson

💖 Dandelion - Merlina Garance 💜 Where Willows Weep - Luna Fiore 💙 All Friends Are Necessary - Tomas Moniz

💖 Bi-Partisan - Dallas Smith 💜 Napkins and Other Distractions - by M.A. Wardell 💙 Breaks v2 - Emma Vieceli and Malin Rydén

💖 Furious - Jamie Pacton and Becca Podos 💜 Heirs of Destruction - T.N. Vitus 💙 Blame It On The Stars - Elle Bennett

#bi books #bisexual romance #bisexual visibility #pride month #pride #queer #queer fiction #queer romance #queer books #queer community #bisexual pride #bisexuality #bisexual books #batty about books #battyaboutbooks #book releases #book release

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the-eternal-quest-for-balance · 1 year ago

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BREAKING: OMG Team infiltrates secret NO MAS MUERTES encampment in the middle of the desert in Aravaca, Arizona near the border.

When the illegal immigrant asked where the Mexican men dressed in military attire associated with the No Mas Muertes nonprofit were from, one responded, “From Sonora,” while another was from Tijuana – notorious Mexican cartel hotbeds. “I have a friend coming soon. He will take you to the city,” said one of the cartel-appearing men. “How much does he charge?” asked the illegal immigrant. “$300,” responded one of the cartel-appearing men. Hours later, these cartel-appearing men pointed guns at the illegal immigrant.

In the middle of the Arizona desert over 60 miles southwest of Tucson, O’Keefe Media Group (“OMG”) risked their lives to investigate the shady activity of No Mas Muertes, or No More Deaths, a nonprofit organization claiming to provide humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants but has been raided by US law enforcement and whose members have been arrested by border patrol numerous times. Posing as donors and land surveyors, and with the help of an illegal immigrant working undercover, OMG recordings show this nonprofit repeating “we are a little paranoid,” refusing to state their names, voicing hostility towards law enforcement, interrogating the undercover illegal immigrant “Why don’t you ask for asylum? Why don’t you ask border patrol for asylum?” and offering to transport the undercover illegal immigrant for $300 cash before pointing guns at him – actions related more to a human trafficking operation than a humanitarian nonprofit.

No Mas Muertes workers refusing to provide their names or identifications stating: “You also don’t need the mask. I only put it on when the military shows up or when those white people show up, so they won’t take my picture” flies in the face of No More Deaths’ obligations as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization to follow the law. Instead, it seems to skirt immigration laws and traffic humans. OMG’s exposé of secret illegal immigrant compounds funded by Catholic Community Services of Tucson coupled with this undercover footage of No More Deaths reveals the shocking proliferation of private tax-exempt nonprofit organizations working with the government or potentially dangerous cartels to engage in what amounts to human trafficking into the United States under the guise of humanitarian aid, without any scrutiny or accountability.

Off the outskirts of the tiny town of Arivaca 40 minutes on a dirt road from Interstate 15 at 36455 S Papalote Wash Road, several people wearing construction vests planted flags into the ground as land surveyors would before being approached by someone who told them to leave: “Hey guys, this is private property.” These people were not, in fact, surveyors. They were James O'Keefe and members of his OMG team, equipped with hidden cameras to investigate the rise in suspicious nonprofit organizations operating at the U.S.–Mexico border. The team was outside the secretive location of No Mas Muertes, or No More Deaths.

Couched as a ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson, whose tag line is “a liberal light in the desert,” No More Deaths appears to use its relationship to Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson to evade filing IRS documents of financial transparency (IRS Form 990) under an IRS exemption for religious organizations. After confirming the location was No More Deaths property, an OMG team member posing as a donor called Mary Weiss, an administrator for the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tucson. On the call, Weiss represented No More Deaths was an “organization we actually partner with,” as “a ministry of the church,” located in Arivaca with a staff of 4-5 employees and budget of $400 Thousand.

As the OMG team continued planting flags around the perimeter of the property, they sent a volunteer illegal immigrant with a hidden camera to observe No More Deaths from the inside. No More Deaths workers welcomed OMG undercover illegal immigrant and explained how they “always have threats” at the camp on account of “bad people” and “the [border] patrols.” They described wearing masks so they could not be identified or photographed “when the military shows up or when those white people show up” and declared the men at the perimeter to be white supremacists “looking to cause trouble.” Apparently, government workers, law enforcement, and white people, made them “paranoid” – a very strange mental state for people working at a “humanitarian” nonprofit organization.

Upon the OMG team leaving the area, No More Deaths workers intercepted their car and questioned them. After O’Keefe mentioned the Unitarian Universalist Church and No More Deaths, the No More Deaths workers denied knowing either organization and never provided their names.

Back at the “humanitarian” camp, the two military-dressed men from Sonora and Tiuana – cities famous for Mexican cartels, interrogated OMG undercover illegal immigrant. “Where are you from?” “Why don’t you ask for asylum?” “Where did you cross through?” “Who are they? Who brought you here?” “How much did they charge you?” “Your watch is expensive right, you got a camera in there?” Ultimately, they offered to find someone to take him to Phoenix…for $300 despite the nonprofit’s budget of $400 Thousand. OMG undercover illegal immigrant eventually reunited with the OMG team, but not before having guns pointed at him at “humanitarian” No More Deaths camp.

That night in the desert raised more questions than it provided answers. Why are people at a nonprofit pointing guns at people? Why is a humanitarian nonprofit adverse to border patrol? Why does a humanitarian nonprofit have armed cartel-like men offering for-profit smuggling services? How does an organization which routinely violates the law keep its tax-exempt status? OMG’s investigation into No More Deaths reveals the growing abuse of nonprofit laws by organizations hiding under the cloak of religious affiliation and potentially profiting off human trafficking. One thing is clear – men are armed, secrecy is rampant, and fear is wielded by nonprofit organizations running unfettered.

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THE WIZARD SKY

1. “Night Vision,” Lucille Clifton // 2. “A Hymn to Childhood,” Li-Young Lee // 3. "The Beyond,” Georgia O’Keeffe // 4. "The Weight of the Empire", Josie Stewart // 5. "Fire,” Barns Courtney // 6. The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, episode 17, Aabria Iyengar // 7. “Birds of a Feather,” Tamiko Beyer // 8. Detail of "Summer Days," Georgia O'Keefe// 9. "I Put the Coffin Out to Sea,” Lisa Marie Basile // 10. The Plague, Albert Camus // 11. "Long Life," Mary Oliver // 12. The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One, episode 23, Aabria Iyengar //13. "Half-light," Frank Bidart.

The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One web weaves:

Eursulon Suvi Ame True Friends

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Image 1: Text reading, "the girl fits her body in/ to the space between the bed/ and the wall. she is a stalk,/ exhausted. she will do some/ thing with this. she will/ surround these bones with flesh,/ she will cultivate night vision./ she will train her tongue/ to lie still in her mouth and listen./ the girl slips into sleep./ her dream is red and raging./ she will remember/ to build something human with it."

Image 2: Text reading, "Childhood? Which childhood?/ The one that didn't last?/ The one in which you learned to be afraid ...?"

Image 3: A semi-abstract paining of a horizon line. The bottom half is black, and the top half has stripes of various thicknesses and shades of blue.

Image 4: Text reading, "The Weight of the Empire/ A glass is broken across our backs./ The shards take hold and we wince./ We hoist the world upon our shoulders./ It drives the shards in deep, like tacks."

Image 5: Text reading, "Sold my soul to the calling/ Sold my soul to a sweet melody/ Now I'm gone, now I'm gone, now I'm gone/ Oh gimme that fire."

Image 6: Text reading, "The version of the sky that Suvi will claim for her own is a sky that she saw when she was six years old. The dead of night, stars visible, snow gently falling as her world got blown apart. And she remembers the explosions of magic. She’s never seen anything that big, and she thought it would destroy everything. Not just her, but the world itself. And yet the sky looked down and held it all and watched it all and persisted. That is the sky that she claims, and without any hesitation, clear of purpose… I am the Wizard Sky."

Image 7: Text reading, "All day, I watched the flowers turn their new faces to the old sun. That’s devotion. Or maybe instinct. Have we learned the difference?"

Image 8: A painting of blue sky with puffy white clouds over orange sand dunes.

Image 9: Text reading, "I am blood and blood and replay. I am please don’t go./ I am toss the windows open, but I am windows closed./ Nothing comes in, no one gets out. Arrange the flowers./ Arrange the guests. Stand up and watch them stoop."

Image 10: Text reading, "I was with them and yet I was alone."

Image 11: Text reading, "...how I still, sometimes, crave understanding."

Image 12: Text reading, "This is a wizard of the Citadel, and she is coming, with all the strength of her home behind her, and she looks out and forward, and any bit of snow that touches her clothing, or her face, or her hair melts away immediately. I will not be touched by this world, or any other, without my permission again."

Image 13: Text reading, “1. Man is a MORAL animal./ 2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral./ 3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.”

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#worlds beyond number #wbn #twtwatwo #suvi #web weaving #sam speaks

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maximiliano-aedo · 1 year ago

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What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

#Animaze #ZRO Limit Productions #Steve Blum #Crispin Freeman #Kari Wahlgren #Laura Bailey #Travis Willingham #Sam Riegel #Liam O'Brien #Matthew Mercer #Jennifer Love Hewitt #Brian Hallisay #Spike Spencer #Troy Baker #Cristina Vee #Johnny Yong Bosch #Yuri Lowenthal #Mary Elizabeth McGlynn #Jessica Boone

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psychreviews2 · 11 months ago

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Object Relations: Fear Of Success Pt. 7-2

Projection

Psychological projection is a very complex topic that is often badly explained because it's a catch-all term for many different phenomenon. If you are a successful person or are trying to rise in a social hierarchy, it's impossible to do that without experiencing the projections of others. A lot of the common projections you find in politics today involves a normalization of corruption and moral inventories. If enough people are so corrupt, it's easy to accuse others of what you're guilty of, because you may be right. Some of the projection is more unconscious and has been studied in dreams in Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology. Marie Von Franz saw more globally that "wherever known reality stops, where we touch the unknown, there we project an archetypal image." That image could be a good guy or bad guy. Typically, the bad guy is always the one who interferes with our goals, even if we are the criminal and the police are trying to stop us. The good guy is often an idol to be inspired by and given outsized expectations. Through moral inventories, our weaknesses, mistakes, and faults can be well known to us and become the material we use to accuse others, especially if we have a cynical worldview that assumes everyone is the same way. Carl Jung was also aware of how this could happen in therapy when the unknown for a patient has the blanks filled in by the therapist. When extended outside of therapy the example could be an "assumption that what the [onlooker] perceives or thinks is equally perceived or thought by the [recognized.]" Projection can also happen where there is a lack of understanding for real personal human struggles, through a lack of experience, and people mistakenly assume who they are judging are more unique that they actually are. The typical hypocrisy, as pointed in the Bible by Jesus, is when one is looking at a speck of dirt in another's eye while ignoring the plank of wood in their own. When one wants to do a moral inventory against someone else, most therapists agree that it's best to start with oneself before moving forward.

In the view of Jung's Shadow, which is the collection of all the weak parts of our personalities, that territory is often tender when there is a humiliating comparison with people who are better than us in these exact areas. There is a threat that they can be critical of us at any moment and we may lose our status and resources. They often appear like the bad guy, trigger defenses motivated to start moral inventories, and because the accused is more skilled or intelligent, and therefore hard to understand, we make assumptions based on what we know, which is all about us and our weaknesses. There's also a danger of annihilation because critical people who threaten resources, also threaten the well-being of the self. It's like a psychological murder attempt. You feel unconsciously like they are trying to kill you and you unconsciously harbor feelings for their demise. This means a reformer of a system will look extreme and scary, because one doesn't know where one will find another angle for survival. Like anyone looking for a new job, it's a stressful process.

Dreams also can provide symbols that can be interpreted outwardly towards predictions of the future, or they can be a displacement of internal struggles that are now symbolically appearing externally. The unconscious can be confusing in this way because thoughts in a meditation, or dreams in sleep, can just appear out of a nothing and they can already be fully formed projections and unrecognized as being so. For example, a person dying of a terminal disease starts to predict the end of the world, which is really a projection of the ending of their world. Jung felt that politics was an area where projection was common. "If people observe their own unconscious tendencies in other people, this is called a 'projection.'" Politics is full of individual ambitions tied to the ambitions of political groups and leaders. Threats of reform, revolution, and counter-revolution can easily spark a wave of projection. The confusion happens when we don't ask the questions about our own dreams and symbols that appear in sleep or meditation. You can illuminate the situation by asking "are these symbols or ideas about the conflicts in my life? Would I feel better if others were proven guilty as I predicted? Does it feel better because those who I accuse are now seen as broken as I am?" When there is a lot of blame to go around, one way to escape the projections is to face all the problems of one's life truthfully and go through the process of self-correction. Once the self-correction is complete, is the blame for others still there? Is there more forgiveness? In some cases, the blame is justified because the evidence is glaring, but when the evidence is not there and there's no searching for evidence, it is likely a projection from a culture bound understanding of the world or a playing out of internal conflicts.

With projective identification, it goes even further where a person has an agenda with a narrative that will make themselves feel better and they have opportunities to brainwash a suggestible person who is open to introject, imitate, and identify with the new view. Connecting the psychology of victimhood and Girard's scapegoating, you can see examples in children or powerless people, who need resources from the powerful and they introject blame as a way to maintain survival along with other behaviors as found in Stockholm Syndrome, where there is real guilt taken on with the identification. You may stay alive longer in a kidnapping if you help the kidnapper for a period of time, but the cost of that is when you survive, you survive with guilt because you helped them. Other examples are when people adopt a worldview that others want them to have, to serve their agendas. This can be from a personal intimate point of view in a seduction, all the way up to religious or political agendas. Everyone on Earth more or less projects some of the time because it's tiring to do reality tests, or we are totally convinced of our point of view in one subject or another.

The need to blame to improve self-esteem is a clear demarcation between an honest prediction and an agenda. Blaming because there is an external reality and responsibility required, is less of a projection precisely because of the facts and reality involved. Also we sometimes criticize others because we are conscious of our mistakes and learned a lesson but can see that many other people are stuck where we were. Where it starts looking like an unconscious projection is when there's a holier-than-thou attitude to feel superior to elevate self-esteem. Why was there a low self-esteem in the first place that needed such a boost? A search for content in the mind that is creating feelings of low self-esteem can be a key to a projection that was unconscious. If there's wounding because others are superior in one arena of life or another, and if their downfall would make us feel better, it can numb the pain of having to face unpleasant facts about ourselves and the changes we need to make. Those projections also stay unconscious as long as the person avoids facing self-development. Projections can be recognized and forgotten because it's more comfortable to avoid change.

Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the Rain: https://youtu.be/BI5IA8assfk?si=DVkSZh8UeClQcQHT

How a Botched Bank Heist Created ‘Stockholm Syndrome’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYsGbvrmr68

From the point of view of Carl Jung and Analytical Psychology, projection is an unconscious process of "...projecting our own psychology into our fellow human beings. In this way everyone creates for himself a series of more or less imaginary relationships based essentially on projection...In these imaginary relationships the other person becomes an image or a carrier of symbols." Marie Louise Von Franz used an example of childhood play and how children playing with dolls are making associations that don't belong to the inanimate object. This primitive layer continues on into adulthood unconsciously, but for her it's only when projections have become problematic do we have something worth investigating. "The archaic identity of subject and object, which is the basis of the phenomenon of projection, persists subliminally, even in highly cultivated men and women. In the unconscious the inner world and the outer world are not differentiated. Only that which has become a content of consciousness is described as an inner or outer phenomenon, that is, either than an introspectively perceived condition, like a welling up of an emotion, or as an 'outer' event or object. Everything else, of which we are not conscious, remains, as before, an undifferentiated part of the occurrences of life." When there is finally an investigation this is "...only when we gain enough insight to see that they are imagos of peculiarities that are part of our own makeup; otherwise we are naïvely convinced that these peculiarities belong to the object." Because dreams and thoughts appear out of the unconscious fully formed, it's the lack of questioning that leads to the projection being undetected. When people are walking around with their worldview, the gaps in knowledge provide an opening for the "...archaic identity of subject and object...Whenever it prevails, the unconscious is merged with the outer world." Through awareness and meditation of mental content there can be a "...complete and final detachment...when the imago that mirrored itself in the object is restored, together with its meaning, to the subject. This restoration is achieved through conscious recognition of the projected content, that is, by acknowledging the 'symbolic value' of the object." The gap in knowledge is one way to catch a projection but also when there is a distorted label applied to the world. "Exaggeration indicates, in most cases, an interpretation on the subjective level."

Because projection is an "...involuntary process..." full of "...dreams, waking fantasies, and mythological traditions," energy is wasted on error and judgment. "An inner mental image, the object-imago, must be recognized as an inner factor; this is the only way in which the value or the energy invested in the image can flow back to the individual, who has need of [this energy] for his development...The presence or absence of an exaggeration, however, can often be determined only through a feeling evaluation, which in dream interpretation demands a high degree of sensitivity to nuance and atmosphere. It is, moreover, important to differentiate, as Jung emphasizes, between a quality or property that is really present in the object and the value or meaning this object possesses for the dreamer, that is, for the energy invested in the assessment." Energy of course is wasted when there is a negative criticism connected with the anger and stress. If one is interested in real success in the world, a projection-meditation can be a way to save energy for self-development. One can ask "Why was the judgment inaccurate? Does it have to do with my self-development? Are there any wishes embedded related to self-esteem and comparison? Is there an agenda I want to force on the object?" The energetic body language and countenance sets off a countertransference in the person being judged with a back and forth between two or more projecting people. This understanding can also help therapists who don't have the routine of questioning their symbols, or they don't have a regular therapist of their own.

Jung's method was always about self-development and he saw how both negative and positive projections could suppress areas of the personality in most need of development. "...Everyone tends to project their less-preferred functions onto others. Unconscious dislike of a [skill] often leads to conflict with those for whom the [skill] is prominent in the personality. Negative projections are a way of denying our own deficits, and thus they keep us blind to ourselves and others, but idealizing projections may be even worse, since they externalize positive attributes, deluding us into thinking we do not have the assets that others have...Our judgments against others’ personalities suppress parts of our own minds. These 'inner conflicts' always erupt in disturbances of our inner peace." Carol Shumate of Projection and Personality Development via the Eight-Function Model, concurs. "The goal of Jung’s system was to help individuals avoid becoming self-fulfilling prophecies based on their early preferences." Another question is to look at those we idolize and see if there are any inferior feelings when we look at their abilities. We should ask if it's really true that we can't develop skills in the same direction. Certainly the therapeutic effect would arise if weak skills were successfully developed. The concern would evaporate as people get used to operating at a higher level.

From the psychoanalytic point of view, there's also a question of weakened ego boundaries where children were not able to develop a sense of inside and outside, much like the above examples of conscious boundaries and unconscious boundarylessness. There's a "...tendency to search for an outside cause rather than an internal one..." There's a selective focus based on a worldview and then a desire for relief. Freud surmised that "whenever an internal change occurs, we can choose whether we shall attribute it to an internal or external cause. If something deters us from accepting an internal origin, we naturally seize upon an external one." There are several theories as to why, including a desire for purity in the ideal self. If we feel that any of our own behavior tarnishes the ideal self-image, or ego-ideal, that feeling can manifest as a form of self-hatred that looks for an influence to blame, to find relief from the tension. Again, this can be accurate if you were young and copied bad behaviors from parents or culture, and now as an adult you have rejected those influences, but there can be a hunting mentality to attack societal influences, and again there can be scapegoats if the perpetrator from long ago is inaccessible. If there's enough unconsciousness, what Freud called a pre-conscious, a person could also partially forget their past purity-tainting behavior but still make a mistake in their guess of another person, because the content was conscious enough to be a form of knowledge to draw upon, but not conscious enough to be a form of self-reflection.

It's common for people to find internal conflicts that they struggle with and assume others are in the same situation. Many examples include anything related to identity, like sexual orientation, political affiliations, ethnic values, and internal religious conflicts. For example, a bisexual could hate their homosexual self and start attacking others for being openly homosexual. You could then apply this to struggles over deep seeded values. Another example would be a person who is now unsure of what they believe, in terms of having adopted a toxic worldview in the past, and then they could look for social influences to blame. This gets more pernicious when you look at pleasure. Many points of view, identities, and values, all contain pleasure at different levels of intensity and they can violate boundaries of others with varying levels of damage. The anger at bad influences increases as people fail to accept the the dark side of their personality. Drawbacks to pleasures don't change the fact that one CAN get pleasure in many different ways that can hurt oneself or others. When someone realizes that their pleasure can be replaced by subjectively "better" pleasures, a therapeutic method can be to ACCEPT that one can have lower pleasures and one has simply developed into something more peaceful or longer-lasting. These identities relating to anything addictive can be a mire to be stuck in when there's an obsession over purity.

The problem is time and identity. If you were impure in the past that means you can't ever be pure no matter what you do. You can blame other people. You can attack yourself, but you're still a person with potentials for being impure. This projective exaggeration is called splitting in psychoanalysis and one can do that to oneself if one can only love oneself if one is pure. To accept impurity can be moral if people are also accepting of drawbacks to desires and are moving on to better pastures. It becomes pathological if people feel they can ONLY experience pleasure in certain situations. It takes a lot of mistakes, that many don't want to experience for practical reasons, to learn about the limits of one's pleasure template, and unfortunately many take their childhood history and solidify it into a self-belief that prevents new healthier experiences of pleasure. Carl Jung said this about about how to deal with counter-transference when patients are judged harshly by their professionals that "if the doctor wishes to help a human being, he must be able to accept him as he is, and he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he is." The advantage of acknowledging your dark side is that what is conscious can be targeted for control. People who say they are pure may not actually know themselves that well and may act on the slightest temptation to the surprise of everyone around them including themselves. Learning for many people requires a lot of feeling and experience. Abstract knowledge may be accurate but it may also be sterile and not provide enough of a deterrence for bad behavior because of the possibility that one can get intense pleasure from something damaging. Any attempts to teach younger people may require more admission that something bad, like a drug habit, can include incredible pleasure along with the risks of wrong doses and adulterations. There needs to be an impure identity, which matches common humanity, so that exploring improved behaviors becomes possible. Rigid identities lead to hypocrisy and they can demotivate change as a way to defend the all-or-nothing identity.

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It's been a perennial criticism of psychoanalysis in how it is hard to test for projection, but some tests have been done on how obsessive thinking can lead to projection. Deep wounds, shameful mistakes, and past addictions can be chewed on in the mind for long periods of time, swallowed with suppression, but then regurgitated when there are reminders in the environment. In A new look at defense projection, researchers found that "people dislike certain traits and are particularly loath to believe that they themselves have such traits. It is also clear that they seek to deny some of their faults and to suppress thoughts about evidence that paints them in certain dark colors...Cognitive suppression of unwanted self-knowledge may have an unintended side effect: It may lead thoughts about the problematic personality trait to rebound and become chronically accessible...The level of discrepancy between the undesired self and one's actual self-concept can be an important predictor of life satisfaction."

Almost all life choices involve some compromise and when weighing choices it's usually not so black and white. One of the modern illnesses is attributing too much to identity, but when one looks closely, identity is shifting all the time according to priority. If your priority is to send an e-mail, you're an e-mailer right now, but as soon as the priority changes on the list you're something else. In Identity and Identification, a case study illuminated the variety one finds and all the trial and error searches people engage in when they have to adapt to the economy and changes in the world. Identity is compartmentalized. Different lifestyles and ways of living, especially if you live in a multi-cultural society, can broaden horizons of what's possible and allow people to experiment and change lifestyles. To the question Who Are You?, Mark Walport responded: "It depends on the circumstances. That's what's very interesting about identity. So, talking to you now, I'm the Director of the Wellcome Trust, but at home I'm a husband and father. On Flickr, I'm someone else, and so on. In all sorts of different circumstances, we're slightly different people." Then when you add age and experience, complexity accrues in the character of the person. After a lot of trial and error, certain preferences become more solid and many others may have fallen away due to obsolescence, boredom, or an acute awareness of drawbacks. Keeping a flexible attitude of learning and development weakens rigid judgments about purity of character. The safety one finds in boundaries is enjoying a life where the enjoyments already include those healthy boundaries. The need for purity can rest.

Case Studies: The 'Wolfman' (3/3) - Freud and Beyond: https://rumble.com/v1gulsf-case-studies-the-wolfman-33-freud-and-beyond.html

Unfortunately, so many people will not read psychology with any real depth and they are going to be stuck with inflexible thoughts and they will project on the environment with an intense need to control. With projective identification people as well as the environment are manipulated to conform to the personal worldview that allows for relief. There's a "...manipulation of the external object in order to make it comply with what the subject is attempting to externalize." This makes the job of a therapist dealing with these ego disordered patients more difficult. Warren Brodey in, The Dynamics of Narcissism, described that selection process. "Projection is combined with the manipulation of reality selected for the purpose of verifying the projection. Reality that cannot be used to verify the projection is not perceived [because it's about the selection]. Information known by the externalizing person but beyond the perception of the others [in the family] is not transmitted to these others except as it is useful to train or manipulate them into validating what will then become the realization of the projection...The identity that the patient sees may be unknown to the therapist (although it holds a kernel of truth, which is usually disturbing to the therapist). The therapist's active denial of the patient's presumption may serve as confirmation of the as-if identity, particularly because the patient, constricted to his own externalized image, does not perceive the context of the other characteristics." Truth is used in projection, as Von Franz quoted Jung, who spoke of "a 'hook' in the object on which one hangs a projection as one hangs a coat on a coat hook." Therapists are treated like a coat hanger and all the realistic details about their life can be a form of brainwashing if not careful.

Brodey then expanded on the Narcissus parable and the lack of separation between the subject and the reflection in the water due to pathological parenting, with the distorted rewards and punishments, that didn't allow for boundaries between self and other for the child. A narcissist in therapy could easily take personal any perceived slights coming from the therapist as a form of self-injury while at the same time project one's content into the therapist. No boundaries. "Consider again Narcissus and his reflection: the not-self that is set at a distance for relationship exists only as a relocation of a part of 'I.' The reflected image of Narcissus has no separate existence. It is perceived outside of the self but is continuous with the self; it owes its existence to the primary self image rather than to the transfer of energy to the perception (or misperception) of an existent other. The existent child is not libidinized. He is responded to by his mother as an as-if child—that is, responded to only when he validates his mother’s projection." This tethering of the sense of self to authoritative people is a developmental trap that predicts a de-centering of the personality in the child preventing further independence. Brodey quoted Deutsch: "When a distanced self-reflection is [emotionally invested in] as an existent other, this is delusion." Like a puppet the child is stuck in a limited world partially separated from reality. "The image in the pool, having no separate existence, is wholly governed by expectation and can never be spontaneous. It can give nothing...This makes the work with ego-disordered children technically more difficult. The child patterned to the mother's expectations will not easily relate to a therapist who rejects these...The pseudo ego is that organization which validates the parental projection. It is [emotionally invested in] energy that aims to prevent abandonment and the threat of its own dissolution...The child's reality and his mode of organizing reality are altered. An identity grows that is unsupported from within."

As the child grows older and looks to find gratification in the adult world, the desperation to find objects to be pseudo-parents and objects to challenge for domination leads to bewildered victims. Anthony Hopkins in an interview described the feeling of talking with someone who could manipulate your attention span. "I met a madman who was on the loose in London, and that's pretty scary. I had coffee with him one day. I realized how nuts he was. He never blinked. He kept asking me questions and before you could answer he would ask me another one and another one. In the end it made you feel so that you were in a different reality."

Anthony Hopkins Reveals Why He Didn't Blink While Playing Hannibal | The Dick Cavett Show: https://youtu.be/rkh-bOujn40?si=D3KA9GF5fHPHVb2C

Going further than psychology patients, many psychoanalytic books talk about projection being common in the world of politics, but the reality is that so many people who use these tactics are not entirely unconscious of their effect. They find political rewards in the real world and those rewards guide them to be more strategic with their messaging. This is especially true for those who want to destabilize societies. They have a conscious agenda that is unpopular and it will only work if it is unconscious in their targets.

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