Ceaseless Blaspheme!
Having had another encounter with Mel and the “DT (Donald Trump) Syndrome” . . .
If he feels he is being contradicted, or told to see it as a ‘conventional understanding’, he has to attack the “person” who is informing him . . .
He is unable to think and consider what is being said if it is something he doesn’t believe or know—bringing forth the idea that he isn’t informed—that stimulates uncertainty into his reactive consideration. There is no space between what he hears and what he concludes it to mean . . .
His conclusion is arbitrary and is created from his reactive feelings as soon as it is experienced, regardless if the image is filled with facts or complete information . . .
He puts the period arbitrarily into the sentence before the sentence is complete. Then if the information contradicts his reactive conclusion he stops listening, gets irritated, and dismisses the credibility of the person who is providing it.
What is going on here is that he is “protecting” his ego from the feeling of being “wrong”. This hyperactive response to feeling wrong is a psychotic reaction to uncertainty. Uncertainty is inadequacy. This in turn is what he is protecting himself from feeling. Then, when someone or something is presenting information he doesn’t know or remember, he jumps reactively to conclusions, the conversation is closed, and he has created the delusion that he already “knows”.
He believes he “knows” more about any subject than anyone, and especially more than the person providing the information.
The result is he adopts “labels” of invalidation that don’t have content. I was going to say “any” content, but he retains his limited conclusions by his defensive, distorted content.
This is the pathological architecture of conversation and interaction with him. What I see is a commonality of this Donald Trump Syndrome.
The DTS seems to permeate a whole segment of the current human species.
It is dominant among the believers, the uneducated and others, who are not trained or exposed to psychology, neuroscience, or rational thinking beyond their world of rational function without having to speculate or interact with others in concept and thought.
I sense this to be a pervasive pathology in much of the human species in varying degrees. It has to do with why there is not more rational thinking in general. This is true even in the intellectual world because the majority of intellectuals acquire labels of ego comfort and volumes of information without having to integrate it cognitively. They avoid their inadequacy by using the rational processes of thinking. They, like Mel, are pathologically subject to reactive feelings of inadequacy and ignorance if their “expertise” is questioned.
In fact, the pursuit of intellectual labels may be motivated not by curiosity but more because of a pathology of egotism.
Just because one is intelligent, powerful, narrowly informed, or just plain old self righteous, doesn’t mean they are humble and open to the fuller stream of knowledge, consciousness and its integration.
These kinds of leaders are the worst of those who violate the public dialogue in an atmosphere of good will and open trust of learning—with dogma and arcane opinion they embed in society’s institutions.
There are however, the few with integrity who occasionally are able to guide the collective with rational understanding and compassion, even though the majority of the political and financial leaders, representatives of the ignorant and the unaware majority they represent, are the most hate-filled judges who obstruct the integrity of truth, knowledge, and integrated rational decision making.