Fascism is the political expression of narcissism. Check out the stellar work by @gingercoy.bsky.social on this topic.

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The writing of @gingercoy.bsky.social is excellent!

She illustrates how fascism is the political expression of narcissism.

Many are keenly aware of narcissism and it can help with grasping fascism.

Check out Ginger’s wonderful work on substack or her posts on Bluesky.

There is so much more to life than technology, making money, or amassing power. The tech bros have been on track to wrangle us normies into their narcissistic hellscape, devoid of empathy or love.

Even as magical and god-like as computing technologies have become (silicon narcissists), it makes no sense to revere these technologies as an all-encompassing fait accompli roadmap for the future.

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Most Americans are having difficulty with effectively overnight changing sides on the Russia-Ukraine War. It’s a hard switch to go from values-based alliances to narcissistically transactional (quid pro quo) alliances, replete with extortion for Ukraine’s mineral rights.

If you’re a victim of narcissistic abuse and no one in your society believes you, no one is willing to even listen to what has happened to you, to your witness testimony, to your truth, this would negate you — you as an individual — it would take away your selfhood, your personhood, your agency.

Erasing Zelensky, and by effect Ukraine, from deliberations is the height of political narcissistic abuse, whereby he was undermined to a stature even less than that of a child of yesteryear who is neither meant to be seen nor heard— he doesn’t even exist.

Whether these crazy making lies are gaslighting (intentional/psychopathic) or projection (unconscious, delusional, and etiologically narcissistically motivated), Putin is the dictator, not Zelensky, who invaded Ukraine.

The startling takeaway is that the US government has traditionally afforded Americans a wide berth to be free to be who they are. Now, Americans are faced with the erosion, erasure, and evisceration of their identity through political narcissistic abuse.