Some loud thinking triggered by further thoughts AND this reply now (I will probably blog about this later, both in Swedish and in English): What these politicians and bureaucrats suffer from is empathy deficits? And lack of empathy comes from the upbringing, with no doubt (with this not said I am entirely free from this myself, but I try to work on it). But this is only an explanation and no excuse for their behaviour. Now they are taking revenge for what they suffered, things they are denying the severity in, so maybe they aren’t really aware of what they are actually doing, and that is still no excuse for what the are doing, saying and how they are behaving (that about responsibility). And many are probably honouring the way they were raised and think this was "for their own good”, they needed it.
Now with power using the same means (and needing power, needing to exercise power, with all means trying to avoid all, childish, feelings of power and helplessness); authoritarian, totalitarian, looking down on people lacking in discipline (too many politicians honouring strict, rigid discipline – a backlash really, neoconservative, neoauthoritarian), believing people need to become disciplined, not spoiled, need to learn how life actually is; how hard, tough it is etc. Yes, I think the psycho-historian is right who said:
"...the more defended psychoclasses tend to lead"
And the needed work is too bothersome and laborious, the easier way is striving for power, for being the leader, on different levels; from a family-level to the highest political. Miller is right when she writes:
"It is the UNFELT, avoided and denied pain, stored up in our bodies, that drive us to repeat what have been done to."
The more power we get the more sever the consequences of an unprocessed and unfelt past for the environment. Power can be a way to avoid the truth. An effective way with severe and serious consequences.
And the ones voting for those politicians can’t see things through either, but votes for something they are familiar with, and thus feel comfortable with (how bad this even is for them in the end). They too believe in the necessity in educating people (in many cases in a humiliating manner; as humiliated as they themselves became once probably). And nobody wants to know the actual roots for things.
See Pincus on Societal approval: now it is opportune saying things that weren’t really possible saying earlier?
And it looks as if empathy can be a factor in exhaustion and burnout according to findings in stress-research (Währborg for instance).
Chewing the same things once and again - but so what? ("You stupid, k!!" the primary defence in me?).
Miller also writes something in the style that people want to claim that the problems with the youth is due to too slack (loose) upbringing, but adds that if people would want to inform themselves they will get to know that
"..it is exactly those most punished, the ones most maltreated or most severely neglected children whom find joy in destroying, and whom later glorifies the violence [violence in all forms; from the most obvious to the most subtle; as advocating more discipline in school for instance and advocating we shall avoid spoiling children and young people (but what is actually 'spoiling children'?), from physical to emotional disciplining (with for instance the wall of silence for to punish the child, and manipulate it to a desire behaviour, not listen to it, not explain to it why you are punishing it either, quite authoritarian! As our current school-minister), and maybe also sexual (though much rarer hopefully, or by manipulating this too in young people in different ways), my a little free translation and interpretation of Miller's text taken from page 188 in the Swedish edition of 'Paths of Life')."
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