Our Media Class Are Narcissists
How else can you justify a breathtaking vacuum in social empathy for your own kind? Well, psychological research shows a correlation between Leftism and Narcissism.
As I watched the press pack prickle and prod at Nigel Farage behind the podium earlier, I have never been so crisply and acutely aware of how warped this peculiar and influential little subset of society has become.
Having laid out a programme for mass deportations of illegal immigrants that most human beings of any colour or creed would once have deemed commonsensical, the assembled media got to cross examine the Reform UK leader.
Not one, not two, but almost all bar a few of the gathered hacks asked exactly the same question: “If someone deported ended up being tortured would you be able to live with yourself?”
What was most astonishing was the need to keep repeating the question. Surely his answer the first time around would satisfy not having to ask the same thing again. And again. And again.
It became obvious that rather than actually inquiring out of journalistic intrigue in order to get a good top line or navigate the practicality of the policy, this was an entirely narcissistic exercise. ‘Look at me. I care about the migrants. I am a good person.’
We saw it over Brexit ‘But young people won't get to study abroad!’
And lockdown ‘We should lockdown sooner and longer’
And of course, the most en vogue of them all, Gaza.
Journalists have become a gaggle of exhibitionists, all jostling to prove just how nice and progressive they are and almost never challenging the peculiar niche Leftist status quo that has gained precedence over public discourse.
It didn’t occur to any of them that the act of not deporting someone who goes on to assault or rape a little girl, making an entire community feel unsafe, or commit a terrorist attack, or even deprive a vulnerable Brit from having a roof over their head, should elicit more sleepless nights from our politicians than what may or may not happen to Abdul back in Damascus.
The esteemed professor Gad Saad calls this fatalistic misappropriation of care ‘suicidal empathy.’ The phenomenon that one should possess a bleeding heart towards someone that exhibits zero reciprocity to your own kind, or may even wish you harm. The term ‘luxury ideology’ has also been in circulation for a number of years, outlining a tendency for the metropolitan minority to use virtue signalling as a means to draw a hierarchical line between themselves and riffraff. Much like keeping up with the Joneses, it is one area where the well-heeled in their leafy suburbs can flaunt their privilege at being unaffected by the sharp end of the sort of anti-national policies they love to espouse.
But how do otherwise educated and rational humans end up becoming so brainwashed, that even when a murderous monster slices the throats of three little girls, or a young girl is raped by a migrant, or a psychotic terrorist maims and kills a load of kids in a bomb attack, their primary concern is towards those affiliated with the perpetrator, rather than the victim? How does this level of inverse empathy even come about in predominantly non-sociopathic people?
The same question should be asked of Nazi sympathisers back in the 1930s. They largely hailed from the same small social subset. The professors, doctors and lawyers who were somehow able to hurdle the cognitive dissonance of being on the side of evil.
This phenomenon has for a long time been misnomered as the character type of ‘Far Right’. Yet throughout history it is almost uniquely prevalent among left wing authoritarianism.
As a result, psychological research into Lefism has been rather scant.
That is until researchers at Bern University decided to dig a little deeper. What they discovered rings very true indeed.