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No matter how badly they behave, some people blindly trust their political leaders. What is childhood onset syndrome?

2023-06-06 10:10:19Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
No matter how badly they behave, some people blindly trust their political
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Some leaders of religious cults, gurus or even political leaders have such a tremendous influence on their followers that they trust them blindly and trust them with the direction of their lives.

The latter give up responsibility for their lives, of their own will, and offer an unconditional commitment to the leaders. They obey their orders without thinking about the consequences, as if hypnotized.

No matter how badly the leaders behave, their supporters always find an excuse to maintain the infallible image they have of them.

This syndrome stems from some people's unconscious desire to return to the state of early childhood, when their parents were infallible, all-powerful figures who controlled their lives and protected them from the world.

They are trying to revive that childhood state. For them there is no need to think for themselves because their leader knows all the answers. There is no need for them to worry about anything, because the teacher will provide everything they need, reports abcneës.al.

Sociologist Benjamin Zablocki has described this "gloomy, withdrawn gaze," along with an eerily frozen smile, as a classic sign of brainwashing or "extreme cognitive subjugation."

Another sociologist, Mark Galanter, believed that the "glass gaze" has an isolating effect. It defines the boundaries of the group and excludes outsiders.

This state of consciousness is similar to hypnosis.

Ultimately, the essential feature of hypnosis is that a person relinquishes their will and allows the hypnotist to take over the "executive functions" of the mind, which manage our behavior and control our decisions and emotions.

We can more or less call it "brainwashing" in this context, as it implies that cult members are innocent victims of malevolent leaders. In Cult Leaders, corrupt gurus and authoritarian political leaders are figures "who promote a great detachment from the world" and who crave power and admiration.

As with hypnosis, when a subject allows the hypnotist to take over his will Abdication Syndrome is (at least initially) an agreement between follower and leader.

The follower has a psychological need to worship someone, while the leader has a psychological need to be worshipped.

It is an agreement between a person who wants to take on the role of child and a person who wants to take on the role of parent.

Abdication Syndrome does not have a good ending. Like all toxic relationships, the relationship between authoritarian leaders and their submissive supporters is doomed from the start, reports abcneës.al.

Because it is based on pathology from both sides: the hyper-influence of the leaders, and the insecurity and psychological immaturity of their followers.

Also, it is a very unstable relationship, because of the giant gap between the leader (with his associates) and his subordinate followers. Any pathocracy in the form of a cult or a government inevitably leads to conflict, chaos and self-destruction.


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