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@RealJesseLuke Anthropologically speaking as metaphors go and having evaluated this one from a clinical diagnostic perspective relative to White Supremacy research Lizard people as delineated is not BAD AS A METAPHORICAL DESCRIPTOR FOR SYMPTOMS DIAGNOSTICALLY CONSISTENT W/ASPD W/PSYCHOPATHY
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@RealJesseLuke (which overall, is nothing if not reptilian in nature).

THE PROBLEM HERE IS THERES NO LOGICAL FRAMING INTEGRAL TO THE HUMAN CONDITION JUST ANCILLARY SUPPOSITION THAT TIES NOT MUCH TO REALITY which then makes for a useful tool in the hands of psychopaths (& let me be clear
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@RealJesseLuke here Im talking about criminal spectrum psychopathy, not a mental illness) who for a variety of reasons look to increase the delusional paranioa in believers who've no clue why they believe what they do or what it actually means (as amenable to reality testing) making it
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@RealJesseLuke all the more easy for such narratives to be used by all in the service of "othering" hated populations

But here at the crossroads of digging deeper; it's worthwhile to examine the above re "lizard people" from another angle in terms of it's persistence b/c it's one of those
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@RealJesseLuke descripts that's been around a long time!
Cultually stories, myths & Archetypal figures are very powerful means of rapidly transmitting comprehensive inklings/knowledge/information/hermeneutics about the complex complicated dynamics wrapped up in the human condition that
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@RealJesseLuke would otherwise take semesters of book learning to acquire, simultaneously providing us with the mean to resolve both the inner and outer conflicts that arise and when confronted with our distinctly human condition and failings

That mental health has put clinical
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@RealJesseLuke diagnostics to SOME of these unresolved Archetypal conflicts dynamics and failings is in my estimation a mistake of tragic proportions b/c neither drugs nor therapy WILL CURE US FROM OURSELVES nor release humanity from having to deal with with,... Well humanity.

That is a
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@RealJesseLuke struggle that MUST BE UNDERTAKEN BY ALL in order to build moral character and wisdom (ie to grow up)...THE VERY SAME STRUGGLE WE IN MOST WESTERN SOCIETIES SHUN TODAY which is so often why the lack of having matriculated those kinds of growth passages so often shows up with
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@RealJesseLuke symptoms impairing our mental health, which then comes under the framing of both Psychiatry and psychology as a clinical problem (which it may have become... I mean anything left to fester for too long will eventually become necrotic) without further examining the integrity
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@RealJesseLuke with which the individual has lived, is living and the strengths they've grown into from overcoming such challenges or not as partly if not fully in some cases causal (none of this should be taken as antithetical to pharmacotherapy which is often needed no matter what is
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@RealJesseLuke causal and IM ALL IN FOR THAT)
Bottom line just like the trickster "Coyote" and "Anansi" the spider hands down wisdom and understanding via metaphorical stories that illustrate how to identify, confront and deal with the internal and external moral challenges we will
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@RealJesseLuke all face.. the lizard ppl story resonates with a crude but accurate take on psychopaths who are far more prevelent in US society for sure and more generally across all western societies and across global countries who bore t/brunt of Western empires Colonization & struggling
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@RealJesseLuke through the scarring remains.
If you both study history and dive deeply into the current dynamicss long driving the 1st world you soon realize psychopaths relative to behavioral signs are far more prevelent than the statistis researchers quote primarily due to comparatively
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@RealJesseLuke small studies that don't take into account the Psychopathic norms that lift up successful psychopaths within White western societies. The dichotomy of the "lizard people" metaphor which Ive pointed to as a generally accurate metaphor for ASPD w/psychopathy is that it's being
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@RealJesseLuke used to further psychopathy spectrum aims and goals by psychopaths who gather under the umbrella of White Supremacy. Far smarter individuals than I have repeatedly noted a total lack of insight is generally endemic to psychopathy spectrum individs. I just here point both to
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@RealJesseLuke the irony of that and how dangerous ignorance is in the hands of psychopaths. Certainly not the first time projection was used as a tool for mass deflection and the targeting of "others."

To conclude my little walk in the woods away from the horrors of today;

what I take
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@RealJesseLuke to be a metaphorical derivation of psychopathy proper and the norms & behaviors either actively sanctioned by White Western society or given a pass by t/ same (depending on the skin color of the individual or group that "trespassed" society. see BLM vs WS Jan/6- Trucker
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@RealJesseLuke Convoy etc the comparative list is endless), I'll leave you with 2 quotes from Carl Jung that while opposite in nature are equally and simultaneously both true

"Even a lie is a psychic fact."
Carl Jung

"Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most
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@RealJesseLuke tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects."

Carl Jung

If you've gotten this far thank you for reading. This has been running around in my head for a long time
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@RealJesseLuke and @RealJesseLuke just gave me the perfect prompt to begin to try out a more organized synthesis

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