Psychopath by Day
and other times
Psychopath is a concept well known, if not well understood:
No empathy as a narcissist, no conscience and plays games. One example may
be a Corporate CEO who makes the decisions to lay off already distressed
workers, outsource, pollute the land, air, water, manipulate those of the
corporation, customers, suppliers and competitors in ruthless gamesmanship
as if they were inanimate objects for the purpose of making a profit in an
all out play of the end justifying the means.
The irony is that such a person may very well go home at
night to be a loving spouse and parent, contribute vast sums to charity in
egalitarian fashion, attend civilization's finest offerings of plays,
concerts, opera and ballet and recycle.
The dichotomy of such a splintered personality is explained
by compartmentalization to prevent personality disintegration during
obvious cognitive dissonance: The voices in the head of humanity and
conscience must be silenced. Internal critics must be put at bay. External
critics must be exterminated.
The Psychopath by Day knows just how special a
person he or she really is: Special talents, consummate abilities, access
to resources, specially connected, exceptionally qualified -- the very
model of executive privilege, exuding positive self-confidence, triumphing
over self-doubt. In the same fashion, the Psychopath by Day knows
that others are inferior and whether or not there is a conscious effort to
do so, the Psychopath by Day trivializes those underlings under
foot, setting the tone for war with them.
The underlings, reduced to outsourced ciphers, may be
deceived for a time, but will come to realize that they have been had:
They are considered inferiors to be manipulated. Eventually, when there is
even the briefest whiff of freedom, the underlings will rebel. People to
whom lies are told may not know they have been deceived. When they find
the truth and cannot do anything about it but act as though the lies are
true, they become apathetic. When they have opportunity, they rebel.
Results are clear enough: Resignations, divorce, lawsuits,
wars, skirmishes, takeovers. People find a way to be empowered after being
subjugated to a trivialized existence. They become dissenters and
troublemakers.
The powers that be have their own way to deal with such
rebels.
This explores the methods used by Elitists to silence the
critics.
Silencing
the Critics
 The
source of the methodologies to silence the critics comes from
creating the INNOVATION CULTURE: Leveraging Visionaries, Dissenters and
Other Useful Troublemakers in Your Organization by Frances Horibe.
There are significant stages
of suppressing dissent.
Remember that instead of
using criticism as a segue to overcome inappropriate dysfunction, the
Elitist will struggle mightily to retain the status quo, particularly if
things seem to be going rather well. It may well be that there is merely
an illusion that everything is going well: Critics are seldom baseless in
their criticism. The more perspicacious the critic is, the more the
criticism may be right on the mark. This is the worst of all worlds: To
have a critic actually be right -- to ruin the perfect world of the
Elitist. In the perspective of the Elitist, the person making such ill
received commentary has absolutely no right to make judgments, thus, the
critic must be dealt with.
Here are the seven stages of
suppressing dissent:
1) Arguing;
2) Listening but not
hearing;
3) Laughing it off
[ridicule];
4) Ignoring;
5) Making invisible;
6) Forbidding;
7) Elimination.
For those familiar with such
methodologies, ad hominem arguments bear special mention: Attack the
person, not the issue.
It's all a game to protect the guilty and maintain the
status quo, usually while in denial. |
