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In Dostoevsky’s “Demons” (1871) The Antagonist doesn’t use force to gain power. He uses a psychological tactic called “The Vanity Mirror.” He flatters the elitists to supporting their own destruction by making them feel radical and forward thinking. Manipulatively leading them by playing to their desire to be seen as morally or intellectually superior. He tricked intellectual thinkers and elitists in power struggles by disguising a cause as the aim that only masked his true intentions. He did this by getting them to chase through this deception a reflection of themselves that the antagonist Pyotr held up for them to admire. They became tools for a revolution that would eventually claim their lives. All because they couldn’t resist the feeling of being in the “inner circle” When you want to control intellectuals or those with power you don’t argue with them. You just convince them that their ego is stroked (dependence) by your approval. Fast forward to today and you see similar psychological tactics plagued upon western society. Liberals believing their causes as morally superior even though they go against everything we know that upholds Liberty and our freedoms. Socialism, nihilism, assassinations, riots, transgender mutilations, vulnerability of women, destabilization, immigration. Normal society sees the obvious dangers in the leftists positions in these areas. And is perplexed at how they do not. Unable to see it isn’t the positions themselves liberals are clinging to. It is the self approved vanity of their moral or intellectual “superiority” staring back at them through the mirror of their indoctrination. This is why when normal society contends with them through the positions. They just respond with how terrible a person you are. Or your ignorance that you can’t see the moral affluences they possess. Or the stance of why we wouldn’t just love everyone as if evil and corruption don’t exist in the world. They don’t defend the causes, the protests, or even their own statements with any objective arguments because it isn’t about the causes at all. It’s about how being in the circle makes them feel. And if you try to turn them away from their own reflection in the mirror they may very well kill you over it. Even as Socialists begin defeating Democrats in their own Primaries they still will be blind the obvious dangers surrounding them. Because they have lost the ability to remove themselves from the trance of what they see in the mirror. It’s a good read. One book I find very relevant in todays dilemmas