The Narcissism of National Solipsism: Civic Nationalism and Sub-State Formation Processes in Scotland, Part 2: National habitus and group charisma

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• *The Narcissism of National Solipsism: Civic Nationalism and Sub-State Formation Processes in Scotland, Part 2: National habitus and group charisma**

• *Citation:** Law, A. (2017). The narcissism of national solipsism: civic nationalism and sub-state formation processes in Scotland. *Human Figurations: Long-term Perspectives on the Human Condition*, *6*(2), 1-24.

• *Link:** https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext[1][2]

1: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext

2: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext

• **Full disclaimer on the unwanted presence of AI codependency cathartics/ AI inferiorists as a particularly aggressive and disturbed subsection of the narcissist population:*** https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer[3][4]

3: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

4: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

1. National habitus and group charisma

• *In many ways, ethnic differentiation is a capitalistic process.**

• *The use of “bad blood” from actual blood shed is what keeps people rigidly insistent on boundaries, and with those boundaries comes the rationalization of ethnic differences.** **A sudden hyperfixation on minute differences disturbingly overblown, and falling for them is essentially a proclivity to get politically poisoned, something Putin in particular specializes in probably borrowing from a lot of English history of tricks of the trade to split up unified groups. These groups presented a narcissistic threat to the British monarchy and its protectionisms unto itself, which is probably the original source of the internalized "combat parenting" there.**

• *However, attempting to do that outside of Britain with whatever autonomous state narratives it may insist on despite the continued evidence of external warring is being seen causing aggravations to both Russia, which never had it get so far as to house a British monarch when its constitution is premised on the rejection of this type of grandiosity, but now quite overtly is using this tried and true technique which may be appropriate for the management of its body now very inappropriately on America given its constitutional principles. including but not limited to election interference from Cambridge Analytica and ties to this in the Harris campaign.**

• *The overall impression is someone not even able to integrate unto themselves taking a socially dominant position with inferior skills attempting now to go externally to where they are even allowed to from an international law perspective when they can't even master it at home. That is the definition of narcissism.**

• *The use of the “blood sacrifice” to buy difference is the same as the use of pain, biopower, and body-based domination to assert itself in capitalistic violences. For instance, the abuse of massive wealth as seen on the post on X (https://www.reddit.com/r/zeronarcissists/comments/1gnocr8/statement%5C_on%5C_reddit/[5]) is inherently an attempt to assert the dominance of the wealthy as able to do anything they want.**

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/zeronarcissists/comments/1gnocr8/statement%5C_on%5C_reddit/

• *Ironically, this destroys the credit of the wealthy, further depreciating and decoupling more and more the representation of wealth as the item of currency with actual ability to generate competent products and real value.**

• *Essentially, this behavior is very similar to the “decompensation” instantiation of inflation being diffused when the representation of money does not link to the generation of competence with the situation underlying inflation.**

• *In a similar way, the use of war to violently insist on ethnic differences to rigidify boundaries reveals a deep class boundary process when England, Scotland and Ireland are examined in terms of the ethnic hatred so bad it basically becomes racial hatred, and ironically the very forces they pride themselves as fighting against (Nazi Germany) often ironically collapse what personality strength the specifically English do have in the face of racial seduction attempts found in Mein Kampf pseudoscience. To this day these continue to successfully create ethnic tensions in the UK even though they pride themselves on having fought Nazi Germany, but again and again they fall for the seductive pseudoscience of an enemy over the competent allegiance with each other of a competent, narcissism-resolved autonomous country. AKA, they were successfully poisoned by Hitler’s pseudoscience to break them up and weaken them from their supporting community and this is particularly true of the flattery-prone country that struggles with narcissism in general.**

• *They are seduced into thinking their class differences are racial tensions similar to issues found in Palestine and Israel, when external bodies looking at the situation see next to none of these vainly instantiated differences and the genetics of the situation support that perception.**

• *Therefore much of national boundary instantiation is a narcissistic capitalization process; “Don’t look at us, because you’re one of those” and when they don’t given they think they are the more interesting of the two due to class tensions, they become personally offended from the position of sheer vanity; aka, “I’m the rich one, I’m the one you should be looking at.” This shows no capacity to understand the link of the representational feature of currency with what is supposed to be an actually quite strong bond to real competence and value generation, not just the performance of being rich and able to do whatever you want.**

• *This sees an equivalent in the** r/NPD **community which I continue to not visit nor have any continued interest in it being as it is that I clearly prioritize the victim in what I clearly delineate as a moral not a medical disorder, but I am clearly dealing with quite a few coming onto this page instead as described on the AI inferiority complex content.**

• *Ironically, this is exactly and precisely how you would expect someone with NPD to behave.**

1. Properties of meaning do not emerge as a salient effect of the situation itself. They belong to a symbolic universe that precedes face-to-face interaction, itself made possible by long-run historical processes. While personal habitus is confined to the life course of a biological individual, nations transcend generations. Individuals die while the nation lives on.

• *In the repeat aggravation of weakening ethnic conflict, the high of emotional gratification is often chosen over the competence of self-restraint for the good of the whole, aka, a constant and pervasive inability to chose the war of national autonomy, international respect and unity, over the battle of narcissistic rage over this or that slight difference that nobody outside looking externally to the situation even barely perceives. In fact, it seems when looking in on it externally that it is all people of pretty much the exact same sort trying to insist on how profoundly different they are to each other. To others, that would be embarrassing lack of congeniality. The same issue is seen in Palestine and Israel.**

1. Much of the time, daily routines impose high levels of self-restraint on the national habitus of familiar habits of mundane symbols and practices (Billig 1995). At other times, when collective fears and anxieties are aroused by tensions, crisis and inter-group conflict, the unremarkable drift of the banal national habitus shifts gear and arbitrary differences are intensified to an emotionally gratifying pitch.

• *Both “we” and “I” identifications are critical and necessary, however, many individuals may have a solid understanding of being able to structural prop up the “I” but no ability to join a “we” without a deep feeling of being threatened.**

• *This is the underlying codependency fear within the narcissistic personality; the pain of codependence seems irrevocable and is avoided, whereas a stronger practice of autonomy based in self-knowledge and certainty that one is autonomous no matter what happens–including its violation by others, which is just a temporary situation of injustice to be thrown off permanently–can help it resolve.**

• *In caregiving situations, this fear may be particularly pronounced, so areas that struggle more deeply with this feeling may have underlying needs such as they can’t actually effectively manage themselves all that well (high psychopathy rate) and do actually need some element of deeply resented control to keep from killing each other which can be embarrassing for any ethnicity, nation or group to admit such as the higher rates of psychopathy found in Trumpism.**

• *This knowledge that one needs the government but also resents it may be behind Trumpism's tensions with authority while also being similarly terrified of a prosocial, entrusted anarchism because there is a large group that senses their own disability and is terrified of no longer having it managed externally. AKA, there are some that will never be able to reach this development stage even if they want to and that is true of anybody with any sort of disability. Disabilities like that can be painful for them admit.**

• *Other caregiving issues may be real disabilities and being old. These people may be particularly prone to reject their disability and sense of being elderly because it is so profoundly structural.**

1. Multi-layered, biographical variations of this collective habitus, the We-identity, come to be individualised as an I-identity in the process of personality formation. Long established and more recent group identification processes – family, neighbours, friends, workmates, leisure circles, through to wider associations of class, nation, religion, ethnicity, and humanity itself – are held in tensions of varying intensity with each other and with the widening or narrowing scales of group integration.

• *Effective national self-defense cannot be instantiated if the average individual can’t even transcend “I” vs “we” individuals. AKA, areas high in collective narcissism are the primary candidates for massive infrastructural attack and that is congruent with the fact an area congruent with high collective narcissism, Snohomish County, was the vulnerable point in the US where Covid-19 dropped down. The issues at hand have proven rigid and entrenched, not very amenable to even basic evidence showing even the comprehensive factor is corrupted by whatever insidious collective narcissism has rotted the area out, stemming of course from the usual suspects of two huge corporations likely doing what they are usually suspected of doing; creating a legal devil’s playground.**

1. . ‘Societies may differ with regard to the beliefs and ideals which guide their ruling elites in their intra-state politics; but they all have in common the nationalisation of ethos and sentiment, of we-attachment and we-image of most of the individuals who form them’ (Elias 2013: 168). Survival of the national unit assumed a higher human value than the survival of single individuals. Prohibited for individuals, organised violence is permitted in defence of the essential value of the national We-ideal.

• *Integrative norms are a non-visible, non-tangible emergent property. Those that struggle with it will be bested again and again by physical aspects such as literal spatial separation. Unable to see what  a “we” even is or would look like and therefore unable to believe in it, they are therefore definitely unable to subordinate the needs to achieve the unity required to pushback on a profound internal threat, such as the racialism found in Hitler’s pseudoscience that seems to have profoundly collapsed many English personalities of sufficient weakness to the seduction even though it is pseudoscience and they do otherwise pride themselves on besting Hitler. This again shows that high collective narcissism is highly susceptible to even the slightest offers of flattery or offerings of fame.**

1. This is not primarily a relationship based on ‘identity’ as an inner psychological condition, where the individual and the nation appear as two entities separated in space that are only later brought together by integrative ‘norms’. In modernity, the individual habitus is always at the same time a national habitus. Individuals subordinate their needs and even their lives to an emotional reflex of unquestioning collective solidarity to the state-society.

• *As stated in yesterday’s piece without the need to rely on psychoanalysis, similar to toxic gendering where men know themselves by what the women aren’t, there is a profound ready-to-exploit vulnerability in inability to integrate along gender lines. A similar dynamic is found on the English to the Scots, where they show no ability to integrate and the opposite of integration, a disturbing casual day-to-day social dominance ethnicization process as if their relation is a covertly violent constant creation of a borderline, where they know themselves only day to day by what the other is not.**

1. The mutual disparagement between the English and the Scots.

• *Consensus is easier in homogeneity; when most people have the** **same predispositions/expressions, it is easier to agree on the nature of symbolic representation and the bond of the symbol to its “potent” force at hand which is often far more complex than the symbol but sufficiently encapsulated in it for computational efficiency reasons.**

• *This allows for people to much more easily identify inflation where the representation is not being linked to the agreed upon “back up” of that kind of meaning. However, when this consensus is attacked in various ways, the body is susceptible corruptions that split it up beyond repair and introduce inflations that render it a subject of disrespect and not being taken seriously. Essentially, “I’m rich, submit!” is seen as “Take me seriously! Take me seriously!” when in fact most people don’t struggle to take something seriously if there is self-evident proof.**

• *For instance, a sleek Ferrari model inherently is intriguing and speaks for itself driving business towards Ferrari because the competence with the issue at hand, engineering a car, is integrated unto itself.**

• *Clear and apparent issues have obviously been studied and incorporated so that something that good at the task at hand, going fast and doing it smooth, is inherently self-evident.**

• *In contrast, cybertruck has sharp angles and an overall impression of being half-complete that looks not only dangerous to** **be around if you should catch a sharp angle, but also gives a semblance of someone stopping their comprehension of car engineering integrated unto itself for high performance well before it was actually complete.**

• *They then put it out into the world well before it had the prerequisite protective comprehensions of a structure integrated unto itself, which suggest to anyone who views it that any business done with adjacent companies will see a similar treatment.**

1. We-identity manifests itself as ‘public opinion’ on the assumption that a national consensus exists beyond the state’s reach on how problems and issues are defined symbolically. Variations and deviations are uncovered by aggregating individuals offering isolated opinions on questions abstracted from power relations between groups. Dispositions of national habitus are thereby reduced to what Bourdieu (1993: 151) called the ‘consensus effect’ of public opinion as a discourse that demands prior coherence and competence. Such a ‘consensus effect’ was evident in the now vanished world of national newspapers, typically published in London but read widely throughout post-war Britain, that produced what Elias (2008b: 218) claimed was an ‘extraordinary uniformity of interest in the whole island’.

• *Scotland has shown a highly contingent (see; comparatively more homophobic, ironically) tendency to deeper integration.**

• *A referendum process did not stoke the feared inter-group aggression but rather increased ambivalences were generally restrained and not taken action upon. That is a huge success for integration.**

• *Even though it has its own comparative struggles, this runs counter to the usual “man for the job”, the English, because integration is critical when actual acts of international aggression such as the poisonings of ex-spies inside the UK by Russia occurs, and if Scotland is doing it better even if that is not to taste to many people including the international community, pushing back the toxic influence through successful integration is the critical element here and due must be given where due is earned.**

• *For instance, Trump surprised the entire nation by closing the Russian embassy in California after a particularly disturbing situation and that should not be forgotten as a sign of heartening competence in correctly identifying the real root cause and shutting it down. Many of the issues have left and now have pushed themselves to other points with still present Russian embassies in the US, which may serve as hotpoints for crimes as deeply nightmarish as orchestrated homicide in the United States.**

• *This is a massive mistake Putin keeps making again and again, while when he is adjusted to he shows no competent vision with what he is trying to win over. It is not acceptable to push that hard to the point of homicide for that little of vision.**

• *Whoever is better must be selected, and ironically these fights with the British monarchy precisely for its otherizing, splitting-up narcissism may give Scotland the upper hand in actually integrating the country if it can transcend its collective narcissism dispositions and integrate even what feels unintegratable; a higher predisposition across the board for collective narcissism of the collective sort (Scotland; our ability to “we” is much better than the monarchy’s “I” insistence) and the individual sort (“I”; anything is only important insofar as it relates somehow to my diffused influence as a monarch, and if I see nothing of myself in it or no opportunity for me to prove my obvious superiority, I will avoid it) and why or how that comes about.**

1. Clearly, civic virtue and ethnic essentialism are extreme poles between which the national habitus can travel. Yet, in the absence of popular anxieties aroused by crisis conditions or perceived threats represented by ‘outsiders’, in Scotland the national habitus has, thus far, followed a path-dependent tendency towards deeper integration. Contrary to elite perceptions, the referendum process did not lead to dangerous levels of inter-group aggression (Geoghegan 2015). Despite the heightened rhetoric between politicians and journalists in Edinburgh and London, inter-group ambivalences generally restrained, rather than intensified, anti-English and anti-Scottish feeling in both countries.

• *Stepping up to reintegrate the UK into the European union so as to not isolate itself from its unifying forces is Scotland as opposed to England against the pseudoscience of Hitler which had successfully poisoned the country even where the country did succeed, and prides itself on, besting Hitler.**

• *This shows narcissists are especially deeply vulnerable to inaccurate flatteries and may integrate it to a core level well before it is called for, leading to a rigid inability to remove the core internalized flattery and pathological, unsustainable behavior trying to actually make financially structured what was inflationary to begin with.**

• *This mere proneness to flattery made many of the English highly manipulated by external forces such as Putin's Russia, including being willing to give up critical information at even the promise of something stoking these vanities.**

• *This is a huge vulnerability.**

• *This power switch must be recognized as the unifying force stepping up to integrate the UK to itself and reacheive unity with its support abroad because an answering competence is not found on the source that usually likes to take the job, the English, this time.**

• *As long as they can beat their own Scottish vs. English collective narcissism, and integrate and accept their own proclivities for individualized narcissism, they will likely be completely successful given the dire situation Brexit has created across the world and the need for just this competence.**

• *Who does it is not as critical as its occurrence, and if it comes from a least likely source that still has struggles such as homophobia, the end result of integrating to beat pernicious external forces is the critical feature.**

• *They can integrate and beat these residual collective narcissisms by accepting most people have an individualized grandiose propensity but it can be managed for the sake of the collective instead of just point blank rejecting/denying this predisposition is present whatsoever and that Scottish alone have the individualized grandiose authority over the “we” competency. (which is, at that point, then the individualized narcissism that they hate).**

1. More recently, the official response of the Scottish government to Brexit emphasized the special charisma of Scotland as a humanist European nation, defined by ‘its desire for peace and justice, firm in its cultural, environmental, social and economic ambition, and inspired by a generous vision of our obligations to fellow human beings and to the world’ (Scottish Government 2016: 18). As further evidence of the charismatic we-ideal, the Scottish government appealed to the national genius of Scots for education, science and technology, boasting examples of ‘Scottish’ inventions and discoveries, including the steam engine, refrigerator, telephone, television, pneumatic tyre, penicillin, bicycle, mammal cloning, and the Higgs Boson particle.

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