The "I" mentality of Trump

A lot but not all of the boomer generation is exactly this, the worst I've had to experience with this sort of behavior is with family no less like disowning kids when there were teens back in the 80s etc. I am really done with people like this and they needed to be passed on long ago.
 
Would a simple "we" did this, or "together, we", crack his mentality?

Watched a fantastic movie many times: "The Accountant". The way two called at different times spoke so eloquently to speak as the one that led the investigations, they both answered how I would like to hear MY President talk. Is Trump really asking the world for a break for America(ns)? It was a team effort. Hopefully, this is a team effort. Trump needs our help, but has not to my knowledge asked for it.

If he had someone read this to him, he would probably think "what did I do wrong?"

I like the time he was waiting on what "he" would say or want to do. People wondered, who is this "he"? Glad he took the time to ask someone.
 
just me said:
Would a simple "we" did this, or "together, we", crack his mentality?
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Yes, but that ship sailed long ago. In the United States of America, the individual championing has been relentless. This is an essential element of the American myth, and furthermore, absolute atomization serves the interests of those in power. It is said no person stands alone, but if they believe they do, they accept their lack of agency with a quiet despair.

Social media was the final nail in the coffin inasmuch as people gave up community and chose virtual life.

Cheers,
Ian
 
From over here in the UK it looks to me that Trump is only the shell of the problem. The heart of it is the world view of the folks who vote for him, and the utter poverty of quality of a realistic Democrat rival to challenge him for the hearts of your people.

But this isn’t coming from a land of superior political governance - we have our very own brand of self-deluded idiots running the UK who are busy wrecking our society day by day.

The guys at the current summit in China must think their boat’s come in.
 
John K said:
From over here in the UK it looks to me that Trump is only the shell of the problem. The heart of it is the world view of the folks who vote for him, and the utter poverty of quality of a realistic Democrat rival to challenge him for the hearts of your people.

But this isn’t coming from a land of superior political governance - we have our very own brand of self-deluded idiots running the UK who are busy wrecking our society day by day.

The guys at the current summit in China must think their boat’s come in.
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Sometimes I realize this is the soup we all live in. I've found it insightful to read on Ainslie McLeod's young soul society and similar from Michael Teachings...whether or not you'd see these as pseudo or actually good metaphysical sources...they illustrate this mass "I" or I/You mindset.
 
rainrise said:
Sometimes I realize this is the soup we all live in. I've found it insightful to read on Ainslie McLeod's young soul society and similar from Michael Teachings...whether or not you'd see these as pseudo or actually good metaphysical sources...they illustrate this mass "I" or I/You mindset.
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There's loads on line about mass psychosis and existential inauthenticity, isn't there? But there's a trap in the way folks react to demagogues like Trump, which is that, in jumping outside the boundaries of the collective thinking that he represents, many folks simply jump into a different collective that opposes him, but which is just as collective and just as inauthentic.
 
Guess I've been sitting behind a desk too long.
@rainrise I did not know there was a mass "I" mindset out there. I was taught against using it if at all possible for obvious reasons. Thinking this way would fail a person in Literature from my long-ago teachers. I kind of thought its use was a lot more rare.

@John K Theirs are not simple jobs. Many over here voted for Trump because they were tired of the way things were. I do not think the average Trump voter was standing at the White House hopping fences. The world should relax about the people here. I voted for him, but it was a vote against what we had. Had no idea he would stir the pot as much as he is stirring, though I did expect some.

A lot can change daily, so it seems. I only hope those outside the USA have patience.

As far as China and other countries meeting and talking, can we blame them? We do not need WWIII.
 
just me said:
I voted for him, but it was a vote against what we had.
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I think I might have done the same if I were a USA voter - I suspect that many folks in your country were voting against what looked like more and more chaos rather than for tooth and claw Trump as such. He was the better choice of two less than perfect options, which says such a lot.

He is a demagogue though, and is a powerful fertiliser for collective rather than authentic thinking, which has frequently been dangerous to a society. It seems to me from a distance that the solution is not simply to attack him and what he stands for, which just strengthens him in his castle, but to establish a credible democratic (with a small 'd') alternative that appeals to a consensus of hearts and minds.
 
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