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Trauma recycled as ideology

The Dark Secret Jews Don’t Want to Admit

A psycho-historical exploration of how trauma, guilt, and ideology converge to produce Jewish self-hatred

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The mechanism which creates self-hating jews starts with a epigenetic tendency, which manifests as a psychological mechanism, and finds itself redeemed and sublimated through a justifying ideology.

By enabling the expression of a traumatic personality structure, a product of over 100 generations of persecuting people, to form and manifest into a self-inflicting function, particularly characteristic of Jews from lands that endured the most extreme persecutions, namely, the Jews of Europe, this phenomena begins.

Statistically, such complexes may sometimes be bridged or temporarily suppressed through certain “melting”, for example, the agricultural work of the Second or Third Aliyah in Israel, or a few wars. But genetics do not go away, they can resurface in later generations, as happened in the Israeli experiment of the peace movements of the 1970s and 1980s - a hotbed for self-loathing jews, some of which had high military ranks.

In this sense, the first epigenetic stage is a continuous symptom, that eventually may find its coherent ideological foundation in the third stage in some larger cause.

But beforehand, comes a second stage where the Jew refuses to accept his need to fight for his place in the world, so instead, he attempts through words, performances, theatrics, or some philosophy, to project his trauma, as a member of a persecuted and hated people, onto a broader canvas which can ease his obvious discomfort with the burden of the generations which he carries.

Rather than confronting his Jewishness as a mark of uniqueness with all its complexity, he creates an imagined image of the Jew measured against an external, non-Jewish standard.

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In this way, the epigenetic trauma, already embedded in the personality as a potentiality, is transferred into a suggestive mechanism that cultivates inner guilt, that requires some sort of action or a trajectory.

Thus, the third stage is based on the belief that the traumatic structure and the attempt to live with the inner guilt and the dysfunction of Jewishness, can generate some measure of external empathy, once put into some form of ideology.

Hence jews do not always wish to save the world with their revolutionary ideas, they also, occasionally use those ideas to save themsleves from themselves.

Leading, in the mind of the self-hating Jew, to a kind of universal redemption or personal ongoing catharsis where he can take his broken Jewish identity, and present it to the world to help it free itself from the “Jewish problem.” - so that he can be free from his own burden of Judaism.

Perhaps, a very banal coping mechanism.

It should be noted that this structure often rests on Jews when they are under strong foreign cultural influences, shaping them into what appears to be a “non-Jew” in credible ways.

Recently, we see Jewish self-hatred merging with Western self-hatred, both yearning, in their different ways, for self-destruction.

It may be that the roots of this Western phenomenon lie among Jews, and from there it spread outward, detached from its original soil.

But it seems each side now uses the spectacle of its enemy’s self-hatred to proclaim how degenerate the other truly is.

In any case, Europeans may require thousands more years of persecution before this mechanism becomes as deeply ingrained in them as it already is in a significant portion of the Jewish people.

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