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dicentra's avatar

The Grand Unifying Theory of the two extremes is certainly the oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, but the origin of THAT is simple Cluster B thinking.

Anyone in a relationship with a Cluster B soon realizes that they're in a zero-sum game: one can win only at the expense of the other, and the Cluster B makes sure you lose.

It's only a short hop from ME AGAINST THE REST OF YOU that is typical of narcissists to MY TRIBE AGAINST ALL OTHER TRIBES, that is also an emotionally immature, black-and-white narcissist construct.

The more clever Cluster Bs will devise an ideology as a means to enforce conformity and reduce resistance to the Cluster B's authoritarian control. The savage unpersoning that we've seen when people deviate from the herd is what any Cluster B female will do with friend groups in school or at work.

It's also the same dynamic that the Bolsheviks, Nazis, and Maoists used to dominate their respective populaces: there's the in-group, which is richly rewarded, and there's the out-group(s), which is viciously punished or murdered. Which group you belong to depends entirely on the whims of the dominant clique: any disloyalty or insufficient fealty to the core cabal results in swift retribution that ranges from mere internal exile to death by torture.

The particulars of the ideology aren't important -- Cluster Bs will push whatever idea they think is to their advantage, as long as it results in an in-group at war with out-groups.

Cluster B abuse is what we're fighting. It's what we've fought for the past 100 years. Only the flag designs have changed.

(This substack is dedicated to society-wide Cluster B abuse discussions: https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/ )

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Parker's avatar

It seems like moving power from a ‘woke left’ to a ‘woke right’ is the beginning of a dialectic - how can we skip ahead to a synthesis that honors the best of our founding principles and values?

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