IMMORTALITY
We usually think of narcissists wanting to remain attached to the original womb. We think of events in their lives as blows to their egos, or as rewards, or as achievements, people manipulated, lies told, money made. These are all spacial, quantitative things. When the narcissist get severed from the old womb, or when the narcissist maintains the connexion via projection onto proxy siblings, etc., these are generally thought of in spatial ways. Freud thought of there being an Id, and Ego, and a Superego - while Jung believed in his archetypes. Indeed, psychology sees through lenses of labels - labels of NPD, labels of schizophrenia, labels of BPD, and so on.
We tend to forget that virtually all of the above are also on timelines. Punishment and/or reward schedules. Predictions and expectations and disappointments and plans and executions. Intermittent and superstitious reinforcements. Manic sprees. And so on.
Because of this, some we tend to forget, about narcissists, is that they are not merely running after the original womb, they are in pursuit of eternal existence itself - immortality. Immortality was from whence they came, and so they expect it is is where they are going. And, so, they bend everyone else - all other things - in the direction of their own assumed immortality. They do not so much move from here to there, making choices of this or that, deciding in this or that direction - choosing this or that thing or course in an environment - but they BEND space according to their own demand to be immortal. Whether by doubling down on the choices they have already made, or by switching to some new choice. Telling some new lie.
The problem is that everyone knows, "Hope springs eternal" - that the inclination towards assumed immortality is what compells all youth, and most people thereafter. It is a normal, human thing - a bi-product of the bias - the need - to exist in the first place. So, it is an easy mistake to make, for narcissists to assume they need and deserve to be immortal, in various ways. The difference is in the harm that their path does to other people, to society in general, or to themselves. In rational analysis: How their pursuit of "immortality" actually contradicts or lessens the viability of immortality itself, in reality. For example, a society with a lot of narcissists in it will soon collapse - that is the opposite to immortality, including for the success of most of its narcissist members.
But, try for immortality, they do, in evermore warped and perverse ways: cosmetic surgery, politics, drinking the blood of babies, investing in real estate, celebrating death in others, wielding power over as many as possible, projecting or telling lies, participating in cult rituals, and so on. The last one could involve child-sacrifice, pedophilia, Satanism, TRANSHUMANISM, etc. Making promises to the sad mass of humanity that they mean to improve the climate, the environment, the cities, the banking system, the medical system - their BODIES - while simultaneously absolutely DESTROYING these things, are ways of bending others to their will, which brings to them the illusion of nearing immortality. Regaining the original womb.
Mankind itself slouches towards immortality though its belief even in conventional religions. How much of this may be valid or justified? Are there really life, demons, ghosts, spirits, consciousnesses, etc, existing after death? If only one is good enough in life, or petitions enough? Interestingly, quantum physics allows that "life after death" could be considered a real possibility - one of many - especially considering that time itself supposedly does not exist. In my mind, the phrase, "life after death," is a kind of non-sequitur, which I could discuss at more length some other, em, time.
Are narcissists just overly ambitious religious devotees, then, pursuing most manically what many people just lay back and assume might happen, anyway, i.e., heaven, or hell? Have narcissists decided that they must try so hard to make immortality happen - otherwise it won't - since the world is far, far meaner a place than most common people assume it is? Are they involving themselves in a natural inclination, albeit in an accelerated, amplified and more destructive manner? Exerting more CONTROL the more they are traumatised by the paranormal? Maybe so. Maybe in the same way that Lucifer strove to pretend he was God, sort of thing, hmmm? And, so what are we left with, to figure this out Symbols. Symbolism. Myth. Archetypes. Icons.
Space again. History.
Posterity.
We tend to forget that virtually all of the above are also on timelines. Punishment and/or reward schedules. Predictions and expectations and disappointments and plans and executions. Intermittent and superstitious reinforcements. Manic sprees. And so on.
Because of this, some we tend to forget, about narcissists, is that they are not merely running after the original womb, they are in pursuit of eternal existence itself - immortality. Immortality was from whence they came, and so they expect it is is where they are going. And, so, they bend everyone else - all other things - in the direction of their own assumed immortality. They do not so much move from here to there, making choices of this or that, deciding in this or that direction - choosing this or that thing or course in an environment - but they BEND space according to their own demand to be immortal. Whether by doubling down on the choices they have already made, or by switching to some new choice. Telling some new lie.
The problem is that everyone knows, "Hope springs eternal" - that the inclination towards assumed immortality is what compells all youth, and most people thereafter. It is a normal, human thing - a bi-product of the bias - the need - to exist in the first place. So, it is an easy mistake to make, for narcissists to assume they need and deserve to be immortal, in various ways. The difference is in the harm that their path does to other people, to society in general, or to themselves. In rational analysis: How their pursuit of "immortality" actually contradicts or lessens the viability of immortality itself, in reality. For example, a society with a lot of narcissists in it will soon collapse - that is the opposite to immortality, including for the success of most of its narcissist members.
But, try for immortality, they do, in evermore warped and perverse ways: cosmetic surgery, politics, drinking the blood of babies, investing in real estate, celebrating death in others, wielding power over as many as possible, projecting or telling lies, participating in cult rituals, and so on. The last one could involve child-sacrifice, pedophilia, Satanism, TRANSHUMANISM, etc. Making promises to the sad mass of humanity that they mean to improve the climate, the environment, the cities, the banking system, the medical system - their BODIES - while simultaneously absolutely DESTROYING these things, are ways of bending others to their will, which brings to them the illusion of nearing immortality. Regaining the original womb.
Mankind itself slouches towards immortality though its belief even in conventional religions. How much of this may be valid or justified? Are there really life, demons, ghosts, spirits, consciousnesses, etc, existing after death? If only one is good enough in life, or petitions enough? Interestingly, quantum physics allows that "life after death" could be considered a real possibility - one of many - especially considering that time itself supposedly does not exist. In my mind, the phrase, "life after death," is a kind of non-sequitur, which I could discuss at more length some other, em, time.
Are narcissists just overly ambitious religious devotees, then, pursuing most manically what many people just lay back and assume might happen, anyway, i.e., heaven, or hell? Have narcissists decided that they must try so hard to make immortality happen - otherwise it won't - since the world is far, far meaner a place than most common people assume it is? Are they involving themselves in a natural inclination, albeit in an accelerated, amplified and more destructive manner? Exerting more CONTROL the more they are traumatised by the paranormal? Maybe so. Maybe in the same way that Lucifer strove to pretend he was God, sort of thing, hmmm? And, so what are we left with, to figure this out Symbols. Symbolism. Myth. Archetypes. Icons.
Space again. History.
Posterity.