"Triggering" as a game people play

[Donnadogsoth]

The "triggering" phenomenon brings to mind this excerpt from Games People Play by Eric Berne, MD.

 

 

 

[aviet]

If I understand this correctly, it has just added to some coalescence to something I had been pondering. This goes into the realm of the sub-conscious or barely conscious. That is that there is a large element of masochism among the emotionally unstable, throwing dolls out of the pram, cry-baby leftists; as well as other detachments of the left. SJWs are wrapped in negativity and one trait of people who are wrapped in negativity is they engage in various forms of self-destructive behaviour that make their lives worse (masochism). I think that SJWs want to be triggered as part of their cycle of personal self destruction. They want to meltdown, they want to be put in their place, they want to be dominated etc. Coppercab is a great example. He's someone who has been pushed into SJW-ing via bullying and his whole persona is about subjugating himself and making himself look ridiculous. It's a learned behaviour related to attention seeking. If you watch some of CopperCab's videos with radical feminists, these alleged heroes of virtue bully him, treat him as a joke and deliberatly "trigger" him, which is just him acting out for attention. What makes the SJWs different is that they are also engaging in societal destruction

Gavin McInnes has said that when he is out in his hipster neighbourhood in NY, confidently walking about in his Trump gear, the hipsters will look at him and look down as if submitting as if to say, "OK. You gave us control. We've made a mess and you're now back to tell us what to do." I've had a similar experience when I was at a "youth hostel" in Croatia that was being set up by town hard-leftist dream-seekers. Naturally the place went under within one year because there is no room for things that are unsustainable in terms of substituting dreams for tangible goods. One of the girls asked me what I had thought having spent 5 months in south-east Europe and my reply was, "The main thing I have noticed is that the further you go south, the less intelligent people are." To which the girl replied something like, "That's not true. That's offensive." But I didn't back down and as a result I have never witnesses a girl more sexually aroused in my life. No one wants to be more dominated and told what to do by unrepentant dominators than these people.

This author sounds interesting. My main philosophical train of thought (that I have not fully fleshed out) is that many people express one thing but are being another. For example a guy who is rejected by a girl may say, "I hate that girl." but their being is I hate that I was rejected by that girl. The dissonance between their being and their expression is all to do with manipulation, or as Berne would say 'games'. And I think a big part of the FDR ballpark is the rejection of games (people who have so little self knowledge that they do not understand the real motives behind their behaviour) and the supremacy of civilisation building.