Misery Loves Company
PSY-1
Psychological Operations (Psyops)
PSY-2
The Zone of Influence
Psy-3
Making the Other Guy Look Bad
Psy-4
Softening
Psy-5
Running Strings
Psy-6
Turfing
Psy-7
Watch for Antics
Psy-8
Arabian Nights Effect
Psy-9
Deep State
Psy-10
Strands of Interconnection
Psy-11
Wall of Silence (also on rivergold dot net)
Psy-12
Misery Loves Company (here)
Psy-13
Switching
Psy-14
Invisible Fingers
Psy-15
Two Horns
MISERY LOVES COMPANY
Sharing the Pain
Closely associated with the reasons behind war, find the ideas of tit for tat and pay-back, impressment
and detachment.
See Also:
Vengeance Quotient
Acting Out - Forced Arsing the Asses The Long Burn Despoiling the Spoiled An Eye for an Eye Guilt Making
Others Look Bad Misery Loves Company Playing God Popping Rubbing It In Taste: Giving People a Taste of their Own
Medicine Trophyism
Turning the Tables
The misery loves company component is the idea that system abuse creates a scenario in which large
numbers of injured people keep passing the painful stuff onto other people rather than trying to pull
themselves out of a bad situation. It also describes how people become selfish, self-serving and self-
pitying during this process. Pain becomes a way of life but remains covert and psychologically
manipulated so that people don’t process its negativity properly. The negativity is channeled into action-
driven pathways as productivity and necessity. People learn to bypass concerns about the negativity by
pretending it is actually necessary or positive.
Deep bitterness and lust for vengeance: The concept of tit for tat applies here in the sense that the
system-abused people want to press upon others their plight and all they have been through; they want
to show up and mar people they feel have it easy compared to them; they want to bring people down into
the abuse, pain and feelings of degradation (impressment - a coined word here, used to indicate that a
person’s bad feelings coming from abuse are deliberately impressed onto another person) they have
been made to feel by their attackers. Part of this is: “If you only knew everything I have gone through” to
explain why they are participants of the system abuse now, or why they are targeting certain groups
because someone from that group (like a gender or skin color) had been a perpetrator. It also includes
detachment in the form of “Why should I stick my neck out for you? No one every really helped me.”
The idea here is that people were mean and selfish around this person, so this person doesn’t have
anything emotionally to give others. Also in this is the desire to pay back a group for what members of
that group had done to them (like a country’s inhabitants.) Paying back is a form of tit for tat (retaliation)
but might include more hand-to-hand combat versions of personal pettiness and emotion. “I’m going to
pay you back for what you did to so and so.” Tit for tat is a more general form of retaliation which
includes things like targeting all Muslims for blowing up western world buildings in public places.
There is also an excessive attachment to the idea of responsibility and the idea behind
actions/consequences behavioral control to the point people don’t have much to give or help others.
People develop misguided ideas about what real responsibility looks and feels like because it is taught
and reinforced within unnecessarily strict or hostile environments. They use behavioral modification
programming techniques to etch in the notion of a type of self-reliance which ultimately makes people
too detached from working together as family or community or to trust real sharing and compassion
among themselves. There is nothing wrong with being responsible, but when you add the element of
hidden system abuses, the attitude toward responsibility takes on another layer. There is a
punishment/discipline part to this concept which uses shaming, hitting, forced injections, mind control
and keeping people from gaining real freedom behind this. When they reach out for help or are not
functioning properly in their life, the abusers bring in the actions/consequences modality which is really
not about responsibility but punishment and keeping people from believing human nature is good
enough to offer help and support. The ugliness and hatefulness is like a disease that gets transmitted
from host to host. Two results from all this are either learned helplessness or a kind of hateful or cold
“mind my own business”, “me first” or “business first” attitude.
The point of no return: The issue of “being dirty” lends itself to trying to get everyone dirty, too, and
keeps people afraid to try to get out of the dirty system. People feeling they have taken things too far (in
becoming dirty) find themselves in a predicament. They find solace in having everyone around them
dirty, too, because it lessens the feelings of insecurity in being reminded of another way of doing life. If
everyone is dirty, then no one has to feel guilty. If someone comes in and acts like a hot shot, all clean
and perfect, this leads to resentment. Reaching for a way out can be or seem life threatening, so it is
easier, according to this mindset, to stay inside the ring and to try to get hot shots pulled in, too - or to
get rid of them. One of the games here is to suck them in, bring them down and then get rid of them.
Misery loves company because it becomes the status quo and something better can actually feel like pain
or can seem scary like it is too good to be true.
Updates: 2021/01/14 PAGE STARTED misery loves company, copied from rivergoldnet; previous updates on rivergold dot net: Separate Page re-started 02/11/2018-moved
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