In my purse to finish my half read book, I came to a very interesting paragraph in a fiction. The book was written by Kureshi, a story of a Pakistani psychiatrist living in London during the 60s. Anyway, I’m not here to do a book review, because I won’t even know where to begin, it was a bit of reality shocked regardless fiction, I cannot help to think there are more truth in it than fairytale, only that the rawness of it all must be covered up with fiction to ease the social pressure and responsibility to the Muslim community. The fiction was a controversial read in itself.
Anyway, here is the paragraph, absolute random but rightfully relevant,
It interests me because I wanted to pursue writing on social
responsibilities and understanding our weakness and how we seek leadership to
help us address our fear.
This new found attitude of protesting our way through our ambition troubled
me and still does. If you are rational, you will see immediately this is not
normal behavior for an adult, but occasionally you will meet people who will
gloat and boast their winning and protest their loss.
Of course, it doesn’t matter when this person isn’t a “piper”. But what is
the cost when he is, it does concern many that this piper will be bringing his
followers down the river.
Stomping your feet out of the battle field, sulking and moaning is a
classic symptom of a sore loser and this can be further defined, and I quote,
as follows;
“A sore loser refers to one who does not take
defeat well, whereas a good sport means being a "good winner" as well
as being a "good loser”
A sore loser is unable to maintain self-control
if dealing with others and unable to respect for both authority and opponents.
Sore loser behavior includes blaming others for
the loss, not accepting responsibility for personal actions that contributed to
the defeat, reacting to the loss in an immature or improper fashion, making
excuses for the defeat, and citing unfavorable conditions or other petty or
weak claims as reasons for the defeat.”
Understanding that, Kureishi writing got me interested in exploring the
degree or magnitude of a sore loser. How does a person so strongly believe in
something that has been refuted to be wrong? Is this pure ego or is it as said
by Kureshi a symptom of psychotic?
And so I quote from NHS website word for word;
But rather than give you the full text, I thought it would be
interesting to highlight the symptom and to focus on delusions.
Symptoms of psychosis
There are four main symptoms associated with a
psychotic episode:
- hallucinations
- delusions
- confused and disturbed thoughts
- a lack of insight and self-awareness
Delusion
A delusion is where you have an unshakeable belief in something
implausible, bizarre or obviously untrue. Two examples of psychotic delusions
are:
· Paranoid delusion
A person with psychosis will often believe an individual or organisation is
making plans to hurt or kill them. This can lead to unusual behavior.
· Delusions of grandeur
A person with psychosis may have delusions of grandeur where they believe
they have some imaginary power or authority. For example, they may think they
are president of a country.
(I swear I took this from NHS website)
Well, let’s make it more complex, I’m curious what happen if we throw in
the 3rd element, the exceptional orator into this mix?
I googled “Psychotic powerful Orator”...and I don’t know why I’m surprised
but I did, long behold a name pop-up!
“Adolf Hitler”
This led me to explore more of this man characteristic. If you know me
personally, you will know I’m passionate on the Palestinian issue and am
enthusiast in seeking to understand the history and the paranoia of old age
that cause such a rift till modern time. A friend quoted to me in one of our
conversation “this is the mother of all Ali Baba” and so for me, Adolf Hitler
is just classic Ali.
Adolf Hitler is a man of many followers, even today; some people still
thinks that he is a noble man doing a difficult job. The questions lie as to
why?
Here are some interesting characteristic about
him that I quote from various sources:
“A highly animated and charismatic orator,
Hitler is regarded as one of the most significant leaders in World history.”
“Critics label him as psychotic”
Hmm…. Even that two alone is contradictory on every level and I guess
people are still debating and have not made their mind up.
I was curious as to what was it like for him in defeat and death?
“The Germans had lost the war from a military
perspective but Hitler allowed no peace talks with the Allied forces and as a
consequence the German military continued to fight”
Hitler never accepted defeat regardless the cost. He’s leadership still
puzzles me. If the cause is true and of extreme importance to him why wouldn’t
he retract and re-plan? Isn’t that a better strategy than pursuing to exhaust
the grounds?
What’s more is that Hitler was
known to be not a religious man, but perceived to be a savior for one, and in
all contradictory issues, a savior for many things that can bend in opposite
directions.
“The relationship between
Nazism and mysticism is one that has provoked both curiosity and controversy
over the years. As Nazism continued to rule Germany, to many people it became a
kind of religion in and of itself”
And that paragraph chilled me to my bones; this is the issue of “taksub”.
This is the issue of Piper going down the river, or the classic Ali Baba.
This behavior didn’t die in Germany or in old time. This behavior is very
much alive and is something that I’ve observed repeatedly all around Europe and
in Malaysia too, the many layers of religion. It’s very worrying.
“Because Nazism is an
abbreviation for "National Socialism", and Nazi leaders sometimes
described their ideology as a form of socialism, some people believe that
Nazism was a form of socialism, or that there are similarities between Nazism
and socialism.”
And the article goes on to say,
“Hitler soon discovered that he had two
remarkable talents — for public oratory and for inspiring personal loyalty”
And hence my oh-uh moment!
“Having secured supreme
political power without winning support from the majority of Germans, Hitler
did go on to win it and remained overwhelmingly popular until the very end of his
regime. He was a master orator, and with mass media to control his propaganda
chief, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, he was able to persuade most Germans that he was
their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty and
the Jews.”
Media oh media! Once the
momentum has picked up, it’s viral or I’d rather call it virus.
Anyway, Hitler was never
diagnosed. His motivation was unclear; there are many opinions as to why he did
what he did. He will remain controversial and will probably be very proud of
that legacy. And while there are not too many that get to go to his extreme,
there are many leaders that share his characteristic. However, I should say
such matter is so subjective and opinion based, how can one ever be certain?
So much for my light reading
plans huh?
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