Grievance is an important part of the narrative template: every story needs a victim, a villain, and a savior. Nearly every modern news story uses this template. That the template is used in social media is also true.
Thought provoking essay! Thanks! It reminded me of one of the early self-empowerment gurus who observed that people often connect and form relationships over their wounds, forming deep alliances. The caution was that doing so often keeps people stuck to the pathology that evolved from the wounded mindset. It was eye opening to have you point out how “woundology “ has morphed into “victimology” and then morphed again to a potentially successful business model. The trouble is that the old caution still applies… to engage that mindset is to become stuck in pathological patterns that stifle growth, shut down communication and amplify polarization.
“An audience that pays to support a persecuted truth-teller has a vested interest in the persecution continuing.”
That was some fascinating read, I need to save it and see if I can read it again. I just came here now to tell you that I don’t support you because you were persecuted, I supported you from the very beginning because you are a Truth Teller. And when Covid began, I needed that more than anything else and I haven’t changed my mind, it’s Like a Lion….
Mr. Malone - you are scaring me. Gen X and older - have an idea about who they are… but newer generations crowning up adjusting their identity to what gives clicks…
….have the globalists already won the war? Are we just not admitting it?
So to generate a following - "show an audience that someone has done you harm and that you are bearing it with dignity." I would add one also needs to then provide well presented trustworthy coverages of topics of interest.
Personally have again received Instagram's 3rd try to help me gain interest and followers. I must follow Bill Gates. People will note that and follow me. Heaven forbid.
I must admit my being a follower of yourselves is based on your covering topics I'm interested in with a depth of facts and with perspectives I couldn't access otherwise. Perhaps i could write about these topics independently, but I'd be reflecting what I've learned here. I much prefer readers access your firsthand in depth.
Anyway, bottom line, your Rogan appearance convinced me you'd be presenting topics of interest professionally, truthfully and in depth. To hell with the detractors! And here I am, glad to be here. Expectations well satisfied.
I'm counting on your continued success on Substack or elsewhere for a long time to come. If you need to write more dramatically to please the Algorithm, we will smile and nod knowingly. Please continue with the funnies; the homestead depictions and teachings; the alerts, even if gossip; more gossip if possible; background info on various meds, vaccines, healthcare procedures; politics and all that is involved in that subject. It has become so that I usually never know if it is Robert or Jill posting and that is just wonderful to me. Thanks for all you do.
Use of the term and related references thereto still figure into daily life, media, and political discussion. 81 years after the Nazi leader took himself out. Isn't that remarkable?
Is there any other war in history that still insinuates itself into our daily lives and conversations?
Might we pause for a moment to consider all the civilizational destruction that has been inflicted unopposed because its defenders were too cowed to endure the insult?
Might we note that advocates for tradition, national pride, the nation-state, etc., are largely losing to globalists who are ever raising the specter?
Is it Nazis roaming the streets who are committing all the heinous street crimes and purported antisemitism in the West? Or is it rather the imports pumped in under the anti-Nazi, anti-fascist banner?
The SPLC is only a more visible recent example of the phenomenon of the weaponization of grievance. And we're being marched toward the UN/WEF/WHO/BIS... vision of the digital gulag, with dissident leadership still too timid to respond with equal ruthlessness.
The spurious racist charge has done more damage to the West than any bomb ever did.
Not only is the wound the product, but so is the division which is created. The division further entrenches bias, which acts as a barrier to truth. Human unity is the path forward to shed light in our current world of darkness. Christianity is a great cure for wounds. Christ said to love your enemy (human) because it heals wounds and creates unity, thereby fostering truth.
I read this twice and will look at certain parts even more carefully. The fact that people can be consciously so deliberate to attract clicks, money and then continue being more and more focused on deceit and "grievance" for the needed attention, just blows my mind. One of the reasons I was allowed to be so close to John Denver and his family was because I wasn't looking for anything from them other than payment for hair and massage. I actually avoided situations where my motives could be questioned. So this essay is an eye-opener for me, not that I don't see people willing to use someone else's good fortune, but to the extent that this is done on these platforms. Good- hearted and innocence live very close together.
There is a way out sign off and never even play the game again !
Some times the one way to win is "NOT" to play the Game !
True story...
Ahh...such a great set of observations!
I know. and the power of DELETE is everything :) SO TRUE: YOU and JILL really get it. thx.
The model was there for decades. What were the soaps, radio and then t.v., but commercialized victimhood?
Grievance is an important part of the narrative template: every story needs a victim, a villain, and a savior. Nearly every modern news story uses this template. That the template is used in social media is also true.
I had no thought of online content this way but this theory totally explains what I have felt most attracted to for the last 5 years. Amazing.
Thought provoking essay! Thanks! It reminded me of one of the early self-empowerment gurus who observed that people often connect and form relationships over their wounds, forming deep alliances. The caution was that doing so often keeps people stuck to the pathology that evolved from the wounded mindset. It was eye opening to have you point out how “woundology “ has morphed into “victimology” and then morphed again to a potentially successful business model. The trouble is that the old caution still applies… to engage that mindset is to become stuck in pathological patterns that stifle growth, shut down communication and amplify polarization.
the key insight here is that the algorithms select for it
“An audience that pays to support a persecuted truth-teller has a vested interest in the persecution continuing.”
That was some fascinating read, I need to save it and see if I can read it again. I just came here now to tell you that I don’t support you because you were persecuted, I supported you from the very beginning because you are a Truth Teller. And when Covid began, I needed that more than anything else and I haven’t changed my mind, it’s Like a Lion….
I've been trying to say the same thing, so thank you for this,
Mr. Malone - you are scaring me. Gen X and older - have an idea about who they are… but newer generations crowning up adjusting their identity to what gives clicks…
….have the globalists already won the war? Are we just not admitting it?
Interesting!
So to generate a following - "show an audience that someone has done you harm and that you are bearing it with dignity." I would add one also needs to then provide well presented trustworthy coverages of topics of interest.
Personally have again received Instagram's 3rd try to help me gain interest and followers. I must follow Bill Gates. People will note that and follow me. Heaven forbid.
I must admit my being a follower of yourselves is based on your covering topics I'm interested in with a depth of facts and with perspectives I couldn't access otherwise. Perhaps i could write about these topics independently, but I'd be reflecting what I've learned here. I much prefer readers access your firsthand in depth.
Anyway, bottom line, your Rogan appearance convinced me you'd be presenting topics of interest professionally, truthfully and in depth. To hell with the detractors! And here I am, glad to be here. Expectations well satisfied.
More than one way to skin a cat?
Linked in. Sorry. Not a fan.
I'm counting on your continued success on Substack or elsewhere for a long time to come. If you need to write more dramatically to please the Algorithm, we will smile and nod knowingly. Please continue with the funnies; the homestead depictions and teachings; the alerts, even if gossip; more gossip if possible; background info on various meds, vaccines, healthcare procedures; politics and all that is involved in that subject. It has become so that I usually never know if it is Robert or Jill posting and that is just wonderful to me. Thanks for all you do.
Nazi.
Use of the term and related references thereto still figure into daily life, media, and political discussion. 81 years after the Nazi leader took himself out. Isn't that remarkable?
Is there any other war in history that still insinuates itself into our daily lives and conversations?
Might we pause for a moment to consider all the civilizational destruction that has been inflicted unopposed because its defenders were too cowed to endure the insult?
Might we note that advocates for tradition, national pride, the nation-state, etc., are largely losing to globalists who are ever raising the specter?
Is it Nazis roaming the streets who are committing all the heinous street crimes and purported antisemitism in the West? Or is it rather the imports pumped in under the anti-Nazi, anti-fascist banner?
The SPLC is only a more visible recent example of the phenomenon of the weaponization of grievance. And we're being marched toward the UN/WEF/WHO/BIS... vision of the digital gulag, with dissident leadership still too timid to respond with equal ruthlessness.
The spurious racist charge has done more damage to the West than any bomb ever did.
Not only is the wound the product, but so is the division which is created. The division further entrenches bias, which acts as a barrier to truth. Human unity is the path forward to shed light in our current world of darkness. Christianity is a great cure for wounds. Christ said to love your enemy (human) because it heals wounds and creates unity, thereby fostering truth.
I read this twice and will look at certain parts even more carefully. The fact that people can be consciously so deliberate to attract clicks, money and then continue being more and more focused on deceit and "grievance" for the needed attention, just blows my mind. One of the reasons I was allowed to be so close to John Denver and his family was because I wasn't looking for anything from them other than payment for hair and massage. I actually avoided situations where my motives could be questioned. So this essay is an eye-opener for me, not that I don't see people willing to use someone else's good fortune, but to the extent that this is done on these platforms. Good- hearted and innocence live very close together.