Meditation: Narcissism (x3)
TYPE: Communication
PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation Suite explores the ignorance of narcissism.
CONTEXT:
The organism is wired to love comfort, the subjective aspect of equilibrium.
Without external consequences for solipsism, the organism becomes eccentric. The eccentric is akin to the spoiled child. The organism is concerned with, and aware of, only its own comfort. It does what it wants and, lacking feedback to condition it, repeats all actions compatible with comfort. These can be anything.
The spoiled narcissist lives inside a reality distortion field (RDF). The will is at cause over the sphere of its intentionality. If others disapprove, they are in error.
In this next Audio-visual Meditation Narrative, spoiled ego encounters its own salvation as an enemy. The ego belongs to Elaan, whose whole purpose in life is to marry the ruler of the enemy to save her tribe. Being crippled by extreme narcissism and antisocial personality disorder, she cannot do even this easy task. Kirk is her salvation. His office requires that he make her marriable.
His task: rehabilitate an ego crippled by lifelong spoilage, comfort, and magickal thinking.
His method: slap that brat!
KIRK: It’s been my experience that the prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other.
ELAAN: It’s not in my experience.
KIRK: Well, we’re still faced with the same problem.
ELAAN: Problem?
KIRK: Yes, the problem of your indoctrination to Troyian customs and manners.
ELAAN: I have eliminated that problem.
KIRK: You have eliminated the teacher. The problem still remains.
ELAAN: Oh. And how do we solve the problem?
KIRK: By giving you a new teacher.
ELAAN: Tell me, what can you teach me?
KIRK: Table manners, for one thing. This is a plate. It contains food. This is a knife. It cuts the food. This is a glass.
ELAAN: Leave me!
KIRK: Like it or not, you’re going to learn what you’ve been ordered to learn.
ELAAN: You will return me to Elas immediately.
KIRK: That’s impossible.
ELAAN: Everything I order is possible.
KIRK: That’s the first problem we’re going to work on. Then we’ll get you ready to go to Troyius.
ELAAN: I will not go to Troyius, I will not be mated to a Troyian, and I will not be humiliated, and I will not be given to a green pig as a bribe to stop a war!
KIRK: You enjoy the privileges and prerogatives of being a Dohlman. Then be worthy of them. If you don’t want the obligations that go along with the title, then give it up.
ELAAN: Nobody speaks to me that way.
KIRK: That’s another one of your problems. Nobody’s told you that you’re an uncivilized savage, a vicious child in a woman’s body, an arrogant monster!
(Elaan slaps Kirk and then Kirk slaps her.)
KIRK: That’s no way to treat someone who’s telling you the truth.
(He turns to leave, she takes a knife from her sleeve and throws it. It just misses him and sticks in the wall.)
KIRK: Tomorrow’s lesson will be on courtesy.
METHOD: When your bio-instinct for comfort gets makes you uppity and entitled, you gotta slap it. This Audio-visual Meditation Suite has four parts:
- Context and narrative.
- Context and slapping loop.
- Pure slapping loop.
- Post-meditation exercise: The real solution is given at the start of the scene—communicate. Communication is the best intervention. Communication aligns and homogenizes worldviews simply by osmosis. This, by the way, is the real curative power of talk therapy, as has been argued here [[LINK TO ARTICLE]].
Context and narrative
Listen closely. Realize that without the corrective measures of socialization, your body would have you be like Elaan—haughty, eccentric, dysfunctional, and socially impotent.
TIMESTAMP: 18:17
Lecture-and-slap loop
(Elaan slaps Kirk and then Kirk slaps her.)
KIRK: That’s no way to treat someone who’s telling you the truth.
Schematize Kirk’s solid state as the loop proceeds.
TIMESTAMP: 19:59
Pure slapping loop
(Elaan slaps Kirk and then Kirk slaps her.)
Schematize Kirk’s solid state as the loop proceeds, with your attention focused on the vigilance of rationality over emotion and its unwillingness to give-in.
TIMESTAMP: 20:06
Post-Meditation Exercise
Now go out and interface with those normalizing others! Homogenize your meaning-making with that of das Mann! This is the royal road to mental health.