The Woke Mind: The woke left fears being out of control more than anything else.
How the woke left are like narcissists...and how they are different.
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In the previous article in this series, we discussed how power is the thing the woke left covets more than anything else. That means that everything they do is done with the goal of attaining power over you, me, and anyone else who might stand in their way.
Always make the assumption that every single thing they say and do is only and exclusively gaining power in some way (we’ll talk about all the ways they do that in a future piece). When you look at it through that lens, it will change how you perceive their actions and your understanding of why they behave the way they do.
Why did they change the dictionary definition of racism? To gain power, by controlling the language.
Why are they teaching 3rd graders critical race theory? To gain power, by destabilizing the system by creating more racial divisions.
Why are they transing the kids in school? To gain power, by making a generation permanently reliant on medicalization, and sterilizing people before they have biological children.
Why do they refuse to define what a woman is? To gain power, by controlling the language.
As an aside, they really like that language one. Controlling the language gives them the power to control your thought. Controlling your thought is how they control your speech and your behaviors.
Their obsession with power tells us what they fear the most.
If you ever want to know what someone fears most, you have to look for what they covet. Just look at the opposite of the thing they covet and you’ll know what they fear.
If a person covets money, they probably fear a lack of security or stability.
If a person covets love, they probably fear being alone.
If a person covets attention, they probably fear social ostracization.
If a person covets being the smartest person in the room, they probably fear being wrong (especially in public).
And if a person covets power, that means they deeply fear being out of control.
The woke left fear being taken out of control more than almost anything.
Authoritarians are authoritarians because they have a primal need to control everyone and everything around them.
Many people call the woke left narcissistic. When they do, it’s probably this attribute that they are identifying - the need to be in control.
I want to be very careful to say that not every person on the far left has narcissistic personality disorder. The term narcissist is thrown around far too easily. I strongly believe the conservative right does themselves a massive disserve anytime they say “liberalism is a mental disorder” - it’s dismissive and undermines the true reasons they are doing what they’re doing.
Many of them don’t have the disorder…but that doesn’t mean they don’t have traits of the disorder.
That’s what people see when they call the woke left narcissistic - they correctly identify that people on the woke left share this common trait with people who legitimately do have narcissistic personality disorder: The need to be in control at all times.
People with narcissistic personality disorder are made through a combination of nature and nurture. In order to develop NPD, one must be born with certain genetic traits that make them suspectable to it. However, they must also experience a childhood in which they did not have their needs met. For example, their mother might deny them love, they may experience emotional or physical abuse, or perhaps they’re homeless and don’t have the most basic shelter.
Because they don't have their needs met during a time in their life when they rely on others to meet their needs (children need adults to help them in this regard), they develop a profound need to control their environment and every person it in as a coping mechanism.
They believe (many subconsciously) that when they are in control, they can’t be hurt.
Narcissists are obsessed with control probably because they were raised by people who were also obsessed with control, and because they were taken out of control by those people during their formidable years. They cope with this by making sure it never happens again.
The woke left is just as afraid of losing control as a narcissist is…but it’s for different reasons. It’s not because they are coping with childhood trauma (for most of them).
It’s because they were never taught self-ownership and self-empowerment in the first place.
The irony is that while many call people on the woke left narcissists, I would argue they are not narcissistic enough.
There are traits of narcissism that can be healthy and productive when channeled properly.
A belief in self is one of those traits.
Narcissists believe they are the best in the room at what they do! And they’ll hang onto that perception even if they are mediocre. How others perceive them means nothing. They are obviously wrong and not able to understand the narcissist’s talent because they, themselves, are mediocre (that’s how the narcissist sees it).
And oftentimes, it is this belief in self and air of confidence that propels them to real-world success. A lot of CEOs are CEOs because they are narcissists. Same with politicians. Especially presidents. Their belief in self is the thing that drives them to the very highest levels in their careers.
A real narcissist doesn’t look towards mommy government to take care of them - they probably had to take care of themselves when they were a kid, so they learned how to do it. They will cheat and steal to meet their goals if they have to. Why would they need the state to provide for them? They probably view every government bureaucrat as grossly incompetent.
At most, they view the mechanism of government as a way to give them more power, more wealth, more status, etc… Does that sounds like any politician you know?
The woke left are different.
They believe they can only live their best life if mommy government gives it to them. They want to be taken care of. All of their policies are designed to make people reliant on the state to live.
People only believe in collectivism when they reject individualism and meritocracy.
One rejects individualism and meritocracy when one doesn’t have the self-worth to believe they can succeed on their own.
And because they don’t believe they can succeed on their own, that means they don’t believe others can either (they project their insecurities onto people because identifying it in themselves would cut at the core of their being).
And even worse than that, they project their insecurities onto others in the most demeaning ways. Have you ever noticed how many liberal white women truly believe no black people can succeed on their own, without the help and aid of the liberal white women? Seems kind of racist, doesn’t it?
The woke left needs to believe they are in control over people because they struggle to control themselves.
Why are so many of them extremely overweight? They struggle to control themselves.
Why do so many of them look like they are on drugs? They struggle to control themselves.
Why do so many of them burst into an angry rage over a tweet they don’t like? I think you know the answer to that.
They are deeply insecure people, lacking in self-worth and self-ownership, but they don’t want to acknowledge it in themselves. And so they project these things onto other people and then swoop in as the superhero in order to save them with their pride flags and their BLM fists and puberty blockers given out like candy to toddlers.
Practically speaking, hanging on to control allows them to achieve their goal of ushering in a mommy government that will take care of all of us in the image of Marx.
Without power, they can’t do what’s necessary for their cultural revolution. So it is beneficial on a highly practical level.
But what I want you to understand is that there are deeper reasons they do those things.
They need to exert authoritarian control over others because they do not exert control over themselves.
So, what does this mean?
If your enemies fears being taken out of control, that means that’s one of the weapons you use against them.
Find ways to make them feel as though they are out of control.
It’s not so much about legitimate power, such as becoming a CEO of a company or getting elected to school board, although those will work too.
I’m talking about something much more craft: Mind games.
Get in their head, and you win.
If a person believes they have been taken out of control (believe being the operative word), they will make mistakes that you can exploit in order to beat them.
How do you take them out of control?
The next article in this series will teach you. Subscribe to get it delivered to your inbox when it’s done. And if you appreciate my work on this series, please consider supporting it with a paid subscription for $5/month.
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