#Elon #Musk, delusional double-standards and the rejection of #empathy
Elon Musk believes that empathy has been an obstacle to the cultural and civilizational development of the West. This is the same Elon Musk, who always wants to be personally admired and even venerated, who wants to be fawned upon in his companies, from Tesla to Starlink, and who reacts with complete oversensitivity to any form of criticism. This is the same Elon Musk, who makes you feel as though he is incapable of absorbing enough empathy to navigate life tolerably.
This double standard is truly characteristic of all those currently chasing the fascist wave. It is also highly grotesque and has not been examined systematically enough.
The classic case of #hypocrisy is based on a blatant lack of self-reflection and a near-zero willingness to take responsibility for one's own behavior. It's always just a matter of blindly acting out.
Psychological projections are at the base of autocratic double-standards: On the one hand, YOU should economise and limit yourself, YOU should be worse off, and YOU have to prove that you even have the right to exist. On the other hand, however, ME, MYSELF and I are quite obviously beyond good and evil. It's just unbelievable that poor ME is always treated so badly! How can people be so mean? Of course, I can't allow that to go on! Anyone who has the nerve to disobey ME or even attack autocratic ME represents a greater danger to society per se and must at least be silenced, if not physically repelled and punished...
#Donald #Trump is the prime example of this narcissistically tinged, aggressive whining always on the lookout for revenge. Elon Musk has also increasingly committed himself to this model of delusional #megalomania at the expense of others.
If people like Trump and Musk, instead of following their increasingly stale intoxication (neither of them seems happy…), would finally seek therapeutic help in order to achieve a state of inner balance and build their self-esteem through genuine self-love, we could finally leave behind the three-dimensional caricature set of oligarchy-oriented billionaires and fascist-infected politicians.
Instead, in practice, it's unfortunately still a matter of simply acting out the major blind spot in one's own perception. I prefer to project what I don't like about myself onto others, only to fight it mercilessly there. In turn, I project my suppressed self-reflection all the more rigorously. All of Musk's and Trump's derogatory remarks about others suddenly make a lot more sense when understood as statements about the speaker's own state of mind.
All of this is as bombastic as it is ridiculous – an expression of real-life satire! #Signalgate seems like the final act of a large-scale tragicomedy. Major dramas always arise from unresolved negative emotions and are theatrically displayed on the backs of, preferably, defenseless groups of people.
If all this happens on the big political stage, the real collateral damage caused by the unreflective self-staging at the top can quickly become frighteningly large for entire groups of people who only appear as jackasses and, in general, minor playing pieces for the dumb elite. The cognitive distortion is attacking the mental health of each and every one.
How often does one get the feeling, especially with the German ultra-right AfD party, that the relevant political figures react completely angered and affronted whenever they hear something they don't like? They don't really have a response at all but are simply offended and utterly furious.
And that's probably the crux of the matter! If you're already going through life filled with anger, if feelings of hatred, resentment, and rage have accumulated to the point of insanity, then it's somehow understandable that you're no longer thinking logically and no longer questioning logically how you suddenly came to adopt this double standard. For everyone else outside of this, this blatant display of hypocrisy is utterly ridiculous. It seems like a farce filled with drunken actors.
And you keep shaking your head and wondering: Do people really not realize how incredibly embarrassing their behavior is?
No, they don't! Enduring the naked, unvarnished truth is only possible if you are already in the process of self-love and opening your heart. Otherwise, you remain in the prison of your own anger, right behind the bars behind which you so desperately want to put your self-chosen enemies and scapegoats...
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