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This bleak world is the reality they wanted to create. So don't let them. Preemptively create the reality based world you want to live in and project that reality out to the rest of the world through your own actions.
The whole world needs to understand (iffin they don't already) that abusive cult leaders are constantly attempting to preemptively create the reality of tomorrow, not today. They pretend they have authority to do something they're not supposed to do, then do it anyway.
So why not preemptively create the reality where civilization pushes back? Why not preemptively create the reality where these men are held accountable by society?
When you're stuck living under a mentally ill abusive authority figure, sometimes it's in your best interest to think like them.
That doesn't mean you should have the thoughts of an abusive crazy person. It means you should know the ins and outs of how they think, what their next action will likely be, and strategize your own actions accordingly. This is also where a lack of empathy can be exploited as their weakness and your strength. By confusing empathy with sympathy, they lack the ability to truly think about what their enemy is thinking. Including what their enemy is thinking about what they're thinking.
Learning how to walk on eggshells is a survival strategy, but eventually you have to realize it's not your fault when the eggs break. It's the fault of the abusive authoritarian forcing you to walk on eggshells. They plan on the eggs breaking one way or the other. They just enjoy watching you tiptoe in fear, and they expect that you'll keep trying to break as few as possible and believing you have no other choice.
Stripping away agency is what authoritarians always set out to do. You have to remember you always have a choice, they just want you to believe your only option is to keep tiptoeing.
One could argue that's a delusional or crazy strategy, but I think that's probably based on a false assumption (most normal people understandably have) that we're all currently living in a sane world controlled by sane actors.
Bless your empowering words but I wasn't being defeatist.
Not sure why you would see it as a bleak quote then? To me it's kind of refreshing to be reminded that none of this is as scary as "we're supposed to believe," because none of it is actually unique or new.
I legitimately can't think of a single scary authoritarian in all of history, who wasn't driven by the fragile ego of their inner child, and reenacting their own trauma by projecting it on to everyone else via controlling behavior.
The what the fuck moments are a feature, not a bug. Reality has essentially become an increasingly absurd haunted house we're all being forced to walk through, and it only exists because for some reason people keep falling for the jump scares instead of breaking the 4th wall to fuck with the minds of the actors "creating reality."