“Winning” and “Losing”, the Feud by Contagion of Human Misery, 4

We know suppression effectiveness is based on remaining hidden so you don’t realize what it is all about – suppression –, and where it comes from – the suppressive –. So when one remains unaware of the real source of attacks, one keeps losing while barking up the wrong trees, until one drowns in apathy: victim. When one is defeated to the point of being overwhelmed, one is at risk of discarding the “losing” personality – self – in favour of the “winning” one – the oppressor – with all the imaginable social damage that stems from the multiplication of the oppressors in society. Here’s where one crosses the borderline between being part of the solution and being part of the problem; whereas an individual overwhelmed into “losing” is still an ally to his or her fellows, even though unreliable, an individual overwhelmed into “winning” is a devilish enemy to them. That parents relay on children the violence they in turn received as children from their parents is but the tip of the iceberg, the “Stockholm syndrome” of the kidnapped siding with the kidnapper against the rescuers is but a particular case of it; in actual fact there is no limit to the damage that individuals under the influence of that personality shift can cause, and I’m sure you get the idea of what “never lower yourself to their level” really means to the degree you detect the important rather than the conspicuous.

Before that shift, their viewpoint will still be based on a separation of identities between victim and oppressor, and will at the very least produce an attitude of “I know they are oppressing me, but they control everything so what can I do?” Just like the addicted aware of being harmed and degraded by the addiction and thus aware the he’d better quit it and redeem self. At the end of the shift, their viewpoint will be based instead on the merging of identities whereby the victim escapes being a victim by assuming the identity of the oppressor to the point of becoming the oppressor, and thus the attitude will be that of siding with the oppressors, against other victims and against those trying to do something about it, too. Just like the “hopeless” addicted that glorifies the addiction and ridicules and fights anything and anyone has to do with quitting and defeating it.