Seizing the Means of Projection
The Big Machine is heated. The engine of domination is winding up and sticking its smoke in all aspects of the Great Narrative. You know the narrative. The scripted words scrawled and passed down from the powers that be. The corporate overlords. The petulant shareholders. Looking after the bottomline. Prophets of profits. Feeding us divisive stories and controlling us with manipulation and comfortable outrage. Bread and circus. Flame and fodder. They( The ones in/with power ) wouldn't be so powerful if we possibly just got along with each other.
The hypocritical nature of establishment pawns reeks across all feeds and media streams. They accuse the side they so fear of the things they perpetuate on a daily basis. Blame the other side for what you do. A great tactic to seed more division and push an agenda and narrative. If we stop and look at these projecting fleshy automatons, we can understand why they act so intolerable and manipulative in the first place. They for one refuse to look in the mirror. To take responsibility for all their misgivings and maniacal tactics. Hypocrisy is as common as the oxygen in the air. Many pundits profit off of being hypocrites. Professional projectionists in a world of empty screens and vulnerable minds. The charade however might be ending..
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."- William Hazlitt
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It's the tribal nature of these decorative power elites that create more of a divide in how we perceive the world. In reality, there seems to be less divisiveness and just people trying to survive in this modern world. Your next-door neighbor. Your boss. Your mom and your dad. Sure, you might disagree politically, but they probably want what is best for you and the world around them. Some get radicalized and they lose touch. They start projecting their ideals onto the world around them when their house isn't even in order. Messy beds and messy minds. The pertinent ideologies offer a type of escape. A retreat from the personal issues pertaining to the individual. When you are presented with a sense of purpose within an "ism", it can make you feel like you are doing some "right". It can make you feel part of something bigger than yourself. It can also make you less compassionate and see "the other side" as less human as you think they are.
"Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person."- Psychology Today
Recognizing projection as a type of energy and not acting "on it", but using it as a fuel source will certainly be a constructive way to improve one's self and eventually the world around them.
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How can one improve upon their hypocritical and projection like nature? It takes a great deal of uncomfortable analysis and self awareness. We may not even catch how much we project online and in the real world. It is second nature to some. Or quite possibly most. When you start to feel that boiling accusatory feeling arise, then you know that there is something amiss. It takes patience and the ability to listen to this rising discomfort. How many times have to accused someone of something that we have done in the past? What did it do? Did it resolve anything?
Outrage is a commodity and a currency for the ones that thrive on resentment and blaming other for the problems they themselves have created.
“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
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When we can listen to our "defensive" nature in how we interact with people and within our most intimate relationships we can start to understand the how and why of projection. Do we really need to defend ourselves against people who won't listen or even give you the time of day to hear you out? It's all about energy. If you feel that irritability arise and are itching to react, you can use that. It doesn't mean reacting flippantly and immaturely. It means using the energy from that feeling and putting it somewhere else. It may even mean ending a thread or conversation. Is this person or people in your best interest? Like anger, this feeling to want to be reactionary can be converted and transmuted into something more constructive. In a way, recognizing the projection in yourself and others is a gift to learn and progress from.
Those that project disgust are most likely disgusted with themselves. Disgust is a signifier of some type of unchecked insecurity or insecurities. It's a visceral reaction to some trauma from the past.
“The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust”
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When one is constantly projecting, they are never in control and certainly not responsible for their own errors (In their eyes). (And in your eyes ( When YOU are Projecting ).
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There is a part of projection that is centered around the self ( A product of the past ). Projection is the product and reaction of the ego. Of self centeredness. The cause and effect of cause and effect. To think that we need to continually project our thoughts and ideas into the world is somewhat of an unconscious action. There is a type of insecurity at work. They are outward expressions of internal strife.
So we need to seize these means of projection. Isolate it and understand it. From there we can improve as individuals in a strongly collectivistic landscape.
“If you were easier on yourself, you wouldn't be so tough on everyone else.”
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