Maggie -- there's pretty good evidence now that submissiveness, acquiescence, compliance, passiveness, etc., are all just metabolically-created animal behaviors, behaviors that -- to use an old wokey/PC catch word -- 'enable' the sociopaths, narcissists, Machiavellians, and psychopaths among us the freedom to do their thing. For example, anxious rats with malfunctioning mitochondria automatically and consistently defer, show the belly, to other rats (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438822001696). Dietary or pharmaceutical improvement of rat mitochondrial health, however, stops this passive/submissive behavior.
A big thing going on now in individual clinical psychiatry, apparently, is very successfully and rapidly decreasing, if not erasing, previously intransigent mental problems like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder by getting the sufferers to adopt a ketogenic/low carb diet. See Georgia Ede's 2024 book, "Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind" or Christopher Palmers' 2022 "Brain Energy" for much more explanation.
All of which suggests a hypothesis potentially explaining humanity's chronic infection with dimwitted and/or malevolent 'leaders' and largely passive and submissive citizenry. If anxiety-inducing carbohydrate-rich diets are sufficient to get people to generally and reflexively defer to 'authority', you would expect the archeological record to show an increase in the operation of social dominance arrangements (and violence) among people once grain-, legume-, and grain-producing agriculture became common after the last ice age. In fact, this is the case. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374555958_Violence_trends_in_the_ancient_Middle_East_between_12000_and_400_bce/figures for a notable illustrated example. The First Agricultural Revolution -- and the first great spurt in humanity's carb-eating binge -- took place in this region of the world between the Neolithic/Mesolithic and the Chalcolithic archeological periods.
The apparent moral of the story -- our original ancestral low-carb diet metabollically immunized us against our developments like our current clown world. Time for a factory reset.
I'd suggest that fluoridated water, pesticide ladened food, and wireless technology - all of which are endocrine disruptors that also induce anxiety - are additional factors.
I learned long ago that any pill a doctor gave me, made me worse. So I refused statins and other maintenance drugs decades ago with no ill effect. The only thing other than good food that I put into my body are a few supplements like Vitamin D and Melatonin. My girlfriends all have their prescriptions.
I watched "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" last night. The Malfoy house elf, Dobby, hurt himself whenever he perceived himself doing something "wrong" - ironing his hands, pounding his head, etc. Dobby was used, misused and abused by his narcissistic/sadistic master.
Yes, this is a children's fantasy, but it is a chillingly accurate representation of the confused thought patterns and behaviors of victims of domestic violence or anyone suffering from C-PTSD as the result of narcissistic abuse.
In the fantasy, Dobby knew right from wrong and tried to do the right thing even when it would be perceived as wrong. He needed to be freed by a simple ritual, and was in the "happily ever after" ending. It's not so easy for the rest of us, but the message to children is that you can escape abuse, and that is an important message.
Why are so many submissive and a smaller proportion rebellious I wonder? Are the fluffers just selling their souls because it is easier not to make waves? I know so many narcissists, and I think most are just self-centered, and they do have empathy. It is the darker personalities that are the real problem, they are more covert, harder to spot, they lack empathy and are ruthless, the wolves in sheep's clothing.
We already have the "personality cult" explanation for why so many go along with the dominant view or personality, and the "go along to get along" mindset for ordinary life. We also have concepts like triangulation and the Karpman Drama Triangle that explain the "flying monkey" phenomenon that victims of abuse experience.
I'm positing that the more sophisticated psychological warfare of politicians, corporations and media is "engineering consent" like Edward Bernays described by actually changing our personalities. In other words, why do we have so many narcissists around us - because our culture is cultivating them by altering the "agreeable" dimension of personality to sadistically disagreeable consistent with Dark Tetrad personalities.
There are many narcissists, but more compliers, they need a supply, won't do if everyone is seeking sources. Religion brainwashes people with ritual, repetition, guilting and fear. The media does the same, and here we are, most took the jabs.
Psychology and psychoanalysis aside, the reason patriots despise Liz Cheney, in particular, is that her father Dick, along with the bushes, and the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds were central driving forces behind the atrocities of September 11. Liz keeps spouting the official lies about 9/11. She’s pathetic.
Maggie -- there's pretty good evidence now that submissiveness, acquiescence, compliance, passiveness, etc., are all just metabolically-created animal behaviors, behaviors that -- to use an old wokey/PC catch word -- 'enable' the sociopaths, narcissists, Machiavellians, and psychopaths among us the freedom to do their thing. For example, anxious rats with malfunctioning mitochondria automatically and consistently defer, show the belly, to other rats (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438822001696). Dietary or pharmaceutical improvement of rat mitochondrial health, however, stops this passive/submissive behavior.
A big thing going on now in individual clinical psychiatry, apparently, is very successfully and rapidly decreasing, if not erasing, previously intransigent mental problems like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder by getting the sufferers to adopt a ketogenic/low carb diet. See Georgia Ede's 2024 book, "Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind" or Christopher Palmers' 2022 "Brain Energy" for much more explanation.
All of which suggests a hypothesis potentially explaining humanity's chronic infection with dimwitted and/or malevolent 'leaders' and largely passive and submissive citizenry. If anxiety-inducing carbohydrate-rich diets are sufficient to get people to generally and reflexively defer to 'authority', you would expect the archeological record to show an increase in the operation of social dominance arrangements (and violence) among people once grain-, legume-, and grain-producing agriculture became common after the last ice age. In fact, this is the case. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374555958_Violence_trends_in_the_ancient_Middle_East_between_12000_and_400_bce/figures for a notable illustrated example. The First Agricultural Revolution -- and the first great spurt in humanity's carb-eating binge -- took place in this region of the world between the Neolithic/Mesolithic and the Chalcolithic archeological periods.
The apparent moral of the story -- our original ancestral low-carb diet metabollically immunized us against our developments like our current clown world. Time for a factory reset.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing.
I'd suggest that fluoridated water, pesticide ladened food, and wireless technology - all of which are endocrine disruptors that also induce anxiety - are additional factors.
I learned long ago that any pill a doctor gave me, made me worse. So I refused statins and other maintenance drugs decades ago with no ill effect. The only thing other than good food that I put into my body are a few supplements like Vitamin D and Melatonin. My girlfriends all have their prescriptions.
I watched "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" last night. The Malfoy house elf, Dobby, hurt himself whenever he perceived himself doing something "wrong" - ironing his hands, pounding his head, etc. Dobby was used, misused and abused by his narcissistic/sadistic master.
Yes, this is a children's fantasy, but it is a chillingly accurate representation of the confused thought patterns and behaviors of victims of domestic violence or anyone suffering from C-PTSD as the result of narcissistic abuse.
In the fantasy, Dobby knew right from wrong and tried to do the right thing even when it would be perceived as wrong. He needed to be freed by a simple ritual, and was in the "happily ever after" ending. It's not so easy for the rest of us, but the message to children is that you can escape abuse, and that is an important message.
Why are so many submissive and a smaller proportion rebellious I wonder? Are the fluffers just selling their souls because it is easier not to make waves? I know so many narcissists, and I think most are just self-centered, and they do have empathy. It is the darker personalities that are the real problem, they are more covert, harder to spot, they lack empathy and are ruthless, the wolves in sheep's clothing.
We already have the "personality cult" explanation for why so many go along with the dominant view or personality, and the "go along to get along" mindset for ordinary life. We also have concepts like triangulation and the Karpman Drama Triangle that explain the "flying monkey" phenomenon that victims of abuse experience.
I'm positing that the more sophisticated psychological warfare of politicians, corporations and media is "engineering consent" like Edward Bernays described by actually changing our personalities. In other words, why do we have so many narcissists around us - because our culture is cultivating them by altering the "agreeable" dimension of personality to sadistically disagreeable consistent with Dark Tetrad personalities.
Chilling?
There are many narcissists, but more compliers, they need a supply, won't do if everyone is seeking sources. Religion brainwashes people with ritual, repetition, guilting and fear. The media does the same, and here we are, most took the jabs.
Psychology and psychoanalysis aside, the reason patriots despise Liz Cheney, in particular, is that her father Dick, along with the bushes, and the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds were central driving forces behind the atrocities of September 11. Liz keeps spouting the official lies about 9/11. She’s pathetic.