NEW SWORD: Substack Writers Discover Cluster-B Psychiatric Nomenclature
Proceed with caution. Evil central planners agitate the Cluster B group as chaos pawns, while writers use their new sword on their competition.
A group of professionals in a competitive field of high conflict discover psychiatric medical terminology and given license. They are not psychiatric professionals. What could possibly go wrong?
A number of good, even great writers, on Substack have discovered psychiatric definitions in the Cluster B personality disorder class listed in the DSM-VI. Naturally, what comes next is use of these labels to classify on their online assailants. I want to caution a very defense-prone class of the arts; which is already highly competitive in nature, to please slow and take your time on a qualified defense.
There are foes. Then there are real enemies.
We could be on the cusp of another eugenics heyday with scientific socialism on the rise, WHO adoption of crisis and emergency takeover language, Nobel Prize awards granted to vaccine makers whose injured and dead are still being counted, and libertarians-for-now making promises to bring back insane asylums, with indefinite detention, as a homeless remedy. Do you doubt the danger of the times?
The rationale for deposing your freedom to speak for yourself is under fire. Freedom of Speech happens to be important to a self-advocacy case against a civil involuntary commitment. This is even more important in a time, when a man can serve a thirteen month sentence, in complete secrecy, without enjoying the right of a public trial!!
What if… someone in authority didn’t like your traction on an issue? You were fit and successful. They suddenly manufactured some illegal quality to your mental state of health with the aid of a corrupt health official. Suddenly, you are a prisoner of the State, with no advocate, serving an indefinite sentence for being an inconvenience to the corrupt.
THE HISTORY OF INVOLUNTARY COMMITTMENT FOR NOISEMAKERS
It happened a lot in the early 1900s. At the height of the Great Depression society’s inconvenient were dumped in a sanatorium by involuntary commitment. The eugenics movement was busy lobotomizing inconvenient political and corporate heirs, mistresses and performing involuntary sterilization and abortions on Native and African American women. So, you can’t say it couldn’t happen in America! For those on the losing end of a government approved eugenics campaign, how much of their involvement would be voluntary-compulsory?
At the same time in history, the Soviets classified dissent and objections to their policies as ‘mental defects’. Those people were disposed of in prisons. The precursor to the Soviets, the Bolshevik’s, used prisoners and the mentally ill as agents of chaos to drag civil society into disorder and criminal anarchy.
Now, what if a writer, hand picked by the Censor-Surveillance State decided they could pose presumed public health officer with a little branding play?
Writers have very different postures on slights and insults. Some are very political and never want to appear weak. They won’t walk away from trifling fights. Some use these as training exercises to perfect the strength of sparring and wordplay. Others will be bullies or pretend to be bullies so others may be fooled into thinking they are mean and terrible threats to be fearful of. Writers do all of these things. Sometimes they switch into each of these roles multiple times a day. No one in an editorial room would even bat an eye.
The one thing you should take away from this narrative is to understand that writers are a highly combatant and highly competitive group of people. Among them you will find very difficult people, people of diverse moralities and character and HCPs or high conflict personalities. HCPs are synonymous with Cluster B disorders. HCP or High Conflict Personality has been the decades-old corporate label used by organizational psychologists in the field; which often expresses itself in court.
One of the standing problems in media and publishing is the enabling of megalomania. The tolerance for hierarchical pathology is given presumption of grandiose results. One of the bitter fruits of toxic hierarchy is sex abuse or sex assault offenses at work. Another is the deprecation of good qualified persons’ work. The shunting of shining virtues brought on good faith may be arbitrarily sacrificed on the ego-altar of someone mediocre or someone who cannot compete based on their station. Academia is notorious for narcissistic abuses of PhD and post-doctoral labor. The common requisite is that they publish results of their art. That is the most dangerous time for people who have invested in study. Myself, and many others have watched all of these treacherous dramas play out repeatedly.
However, we rarely, if ever, permitted a revolution of psychiatric classification to be used as a weapon to overcome the web of tyranny.
IF THE SHOE FITS, THOU TYRANT
Please understand that mediocrity will enable narcissist abuses to impact the public, just as much as people who have a compromised set of morals. Apathy, nihilism, and screaming fits against changes are all par. If I am describing a typical work day for you, you may need some compassionate education as assistance. I urge you to slow down, to pick your fights, whatever they are, more judiciously.
The use of psychiatric characterization is still ad hominem. The rules of debate or qualified intellectual assertion are the same for the mentally ill armed with a PR war chest as it is for the keyboard warrior weenie. If you find use this for this weapon as mental self-defense in private, I still suggest you not use it in public. You’re not a psychiatrist.
Instead, fight in correct form. Attack concepts and flawed premise, not identity. Anyone with a sound mind stands to be less morally broken than a personality disordered person. They would have the strength of the upper hand in a intellectual fight.
Understand, a mentally ill opponent may fight dirty and seek to kill you. You will need to get ‘biblical’ about your chess strategy to deal with the Man Who Worships Himself. Strike fast when the fight arrives. End it quickly. Don’t go for the free Beef PR or drag it out. No schadenfreude.
If you win an intellectual sword fight with a Cluster-B on merit, they’ll be back for a piece of you. The way to end a blood feud with a “crazy person” is not necessarily going blow-for-blow. It might be letting them win a little fight when you won what mattered.
Why do I say all of this? The fight has come to you, Normie McNormandy.
WHY CALL OUT CLUSTER B PSYCHIATRIC ‘MUNITIONS’ AT THIS TIME?
Let’s call attention to the political and organizational forces who deliberately seek out the Cluster B group. They actively manufacture means to create a Cluster B mimic culture, where none exists. If what you do normally is suddenly wrong, so that you are screamed at for the routine act of - gassing up your car - as a ‘fascist’ or ‘capitalist’, you may be dealing with a Cluster B personality agitated by Marxist theoretical ideology.
Socialists weaponize prisoners and the mentally ill as chaos strategy. It’s not because they have a superior ethical approach to psychological medicine. They seek them out to: deceive and entice Cluster B groups, to get them to agree to a violent or an illegal action and to create mass chaos. Then they promise exoneration on the basis of corrupt District Attorneys and prosecutors, who deliver on selective prosecution.
What they don’t do is protect Cluster B personalities. They are expendable infantry in a war of authority on a libertarian fundamentalist system. They want to illegitimately depose the existing rule of law and democratic government to reinstate feudalism without an election, by social deconstruction. This is to be achieved with simple anarchy.
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