What Their Projection Says About Them
Getting insight into those who project their mentality onto you
Unless you are taught that every person in this world has their own beliefs and ways of thinking (that may vary widely from your own), you will project your ways of thinking onto them. For example, you may be very judgemental about your appearance and think others are also judging your looks. Or, you may feel like if given the right opportunity you would cheat on your mate and therefore get jealous when they are hanging around others. If you’ve ever wondered why someone worried you would cheat on them, this is an important point to remember. Their worry can say a lot more about them than it does about you.
If you were someone who would never cheat, it would not immediately come into your mind that others are so willing to do that. If you were not self-conscious about your looks, you wouldn’t consider that others would be so judgemental.
Of course, over time, you can learn that other people have different hang-ups and not be projecting. So you can’t always tell that someone is projecting. But, if they’re talking about something outrageous or implausible, it’s likely a projection.
Authoritarian Mentality
Rachel Maddow worried about being put in a camp by Trump, is one of these outrageous claims. From the Fox News article:
"I'm worried about the country broadly if we put someone in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions of people, and to ‘root out’ what he’s described in subhuman terms as his ‘enemy from within.’ Again, history is helpful here. He’s not joking when he says this stuff, and we’ve seen what happens when people take power proclaiming that kind of agenda," Maddow told CNN, adding that Trump would also go after his political rivals.
"For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants?" Maddow continued. "I’m worried about me — but only as much as I’m worried about all of us."
The first thought I had when I heard this was that Rachel is projecting the sorts of behaviors she would be happy to do if given the perfect political climate and capabilities to do so. The Democrats want to hurt their political enemies. And, I don’t just mean hurt them politically.
Biden & Democrats' Schadenfreude is a Red Flag
They’d like actually to torture and kill some of them. We’ve seen the torture they’ve been attempting with the January 6th “participants.” The only thing keeping Democrats back from going hog-wild is the idea that there would be pushback (defiance and lawfare).
Rapist Mentality
Louis Rossman has covered the right-to-repair movement in depth. If you’ve ever been upset that every product that used to be stand-alone has now turned into a subscription, you’re interested in the right-to-repair movement, so you should check out his videos on that. I’ve also mentioned his name in a few of my articles in the past, so you can search for his name on my site if you’re interested in those.
The idea that you should not own what you purchase, but you should rent everything via subscription for the rest of your life is seen in the phrase, “You Will Own Nothing and You Will Be Happy” from the WEF.
Louis discusses how companies are making it difficult to repair the products that have been purchased. The companies have even lobbied against making it easier to repair them. (That’s also anti-green because it causes more waste, but they will lie about being pro-climate companies). Automobile companies have also spent money trying to scare the public about the right-to-repair bill painting independent repairmen as sexual predators.
Well, those sorts of companies have a rapist mentality. They’re projecting their behaviors/mentality onto others. Many companies today (most recently Adobe) are updating their terms of service in ways that you cannot opt out of or disagree with. He calls it EULA (end user license agreement) roofying. They are okay with slipping something like this in the license without getting your consent, so, of course, they’re the sorts of people who would project this rapist mentality onto others.
Flying Monkey Mentality
If a person aids an abusive person in their manipulation and abuse of others, they can be referred to as a “flying monkey” like those seen in The Wizard of Oz. There are abusive countries out there, attempting to siphon money from unwilling US taxpayers via our government. If we view the countries attempting to steal money from US taxpayers as abusers, then we can see some projection in the latest story.
A report published by the Ukraine-based DATA Journalism Agency (TEXTY), titled: “Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists. The forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it” has accused numerous figures on the populist right and anti-war left in the United States of echoing “key messages of Russian propaganda aimed at depriving Ukrainians of the ability to defend themselves with Western weapons and funds.”
The website claims to be “independent” and that its project into supposed anti-Ukrainian sentiment in America was funded “exclusively by the readers”. However, TEXTY is listed as a partner of the Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration and Services (TAPAS) Project in Ukraine, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and UK International Development (UK Dev).
From Breitbart’s State Department-Tied Ukraine Site Includes Trump, Vance, Vivek, Breitbart and More on ‘Enemies List’
If the US does not fund Ukraine, that does not mean we are depriving Ukrainians of their ability to defend themselves. It is not the United State’s responsibility to provide weapons or funds. They can figure out a way to defend themselves without us. The fact that some in Ukraine think that it is our responsibility shows what they think about our country (they own us / we work for them).
The fact that they’re saying anyone in the United States who is against funding Ukraine is therefore a Russian Flying Monkey lets us know that they’re projecting their own beliefs and ways of thinking onto us and everyone on that list.
More & More Projection
So, these are three examples of projection in the news within the last couple of days. It feels like it’s becoming more and more commonplace. Why do you think that is? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for reading and please give the article a “like” and/or share if you enjoyed it or found it beneficial.
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It sounds like a classic abusive relationship. It's all about control. Why is it getting worse? Because there's an election in under 5 months.
And it's not just to control people's votes. This election is short-term. In the long-term, manipulation through projection is to control people's mindset. Get us used to be talked to this way, we'll start accepting it as normal. We'll stop exercising our own ability to think because it's just easier to let the talking heads think for us. The end result: there will be no diversity of opinion left, so elections will become meaningless and unnecessary. And no one will grieve their demise. Just one less errand on the to-do list.
I grew up in the 1980s & 90s, and remember when music, sports and films were just entertainment. You could watch the Oscars and actually know the films, and not hear a leftist political rant. Mainstream culture had space for everyone to sit together and not get "offended." It's shocking how quickly American culture has become a giant echo chamber for the far left. Now, the more you tune in to mainstream entertainment, the more you'll hear the "correct" opinions voiced, and "incorrect" opinions demonized. Projection is just one facet of how that happens. And it's like a narcissistic partner isolating their target from other loved ones. Only one opinion is allowed; all others are dangerous. And projection makes it too easy for the target to "choose" which opinion to adopt.
I pity younger generations, because the echo chamber is all they've ever known. And they don't know what projection is. They haven't learned how to identify when it's happening. That makes them the easiest targets.
I am referring to a more conscious and deliberately manipulative form of projection motivated by ideology and nurtured by others in the group who swim in the same ideological waters. Projection gets weaponized on a grand scalet.. The quoted book seems to stem from just such a process. Just wondering if others are familiar with it. I have not had a chance to read the book either.
Hope this makes sense. My brain is winding down for the night!.......
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