Social media platforms are gathering places for people to interact on a wide array of topics. Some use these platforms constructively. People who use these platforms constructively demonstrate good character, including trustworthiness, respect for oneself and other people, responsibility, accountability, fairness, kindness and good citizenship.
Then, there are people who use social media destructively, benevolence and honesty escape them. They see social media as a way to promote themselves and advance their agenda. They don’t care whom they abuse or what falsehoods they promote.
Members of this latter group are frequently suffering from some form of psychosis—a disconnection from reality, they lack intellectual acuity and emotional maturity. Like being attracted to like, this state of reference does not stop these people from have having an adoring following.
People who suffer from psychosis may believe something that is false is true, or they might experience difficulty in differentiating between reality and fantasy, like believing Bigfoot is real. These folks can be overly suspicious of others; even to the point of paranoia. Their ability to think clearly and logically appears to be compromised.
One common type of psychosis includes delusions, which are false beliefs to which a person has developed a strong attachment. A psychotic individual will embrace their delusions in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. For example, they might believe someone is harming them, or is a threat to them despite any basis in fact. Psychotics will make accusations about another, convinced a mere allegation automatically equates to guilt. This situation can put the wrong person in the defendant’s chair as the accusation itself is outright unfounded, and can readily be proved so. It is not uncommon for the psychotic “victim” to actually be the perpetrator. This behavior can continue for years.
Grandiosity is one expression of psychotic thinking with the person believing they are morally and/or intellectually superior. They can believe themselves to be the hero, the whistle blower, out to save us from some nonexistent threat. Confident in their inherent superiority, they often ignore commonly accepted societal norms and rules, maintaining an air of entitlement and a misguided approach to social interactions.
It is not uncommon for a psychotic to unleash attacks on the character and reputation of others, frequently crossing the line into malicious defamation, they will accuse people of committing crimes that never happened. These attacks are typically amplified by the extent to which the individual’s psychosis has caused them to become disconnected from reality. The greater the disconnect, the more far-fetched or baseless the attacks can be. Unfortunately, social media provides psychotic individuals a megaphone with which they can promote their delusions and inflict harm on anyone or anything they perceive to be a threat to them or their agenda. At the rate we are going, social media may well prove to be the death of civil society if change doesn’t happen soon.
As consumers of social media, we must be wary of content meant to harm others, to repress their freedoms or to deny them goodwill. When we encounter such content, the responsible response is to refuse to pass this information onto others. It is reckless and nonproductive to aid the propagation of delusion-based claims by offering them reinforcement and promotion.
People who don’t adhere to what is morally right and lack integrity cannot compete with those of good character. To compensate for this lack, these people attack the character and reputation of people known for upstanding character and sound principles. Like energy vampires, aggressors will suck the life out of their targets to feed their ailing egos.
When engaging on social media, or when reading opinion pieces, simply applying basic investigative and thinking skills will expose the toxic messages for what they are.
The purveyors of these toxins are making baseless allegations to avoid accountability for their own shortcomings. They play the victim role with an Oscar-worthy performance, fueled by their insatiable hunger for attention.
Some people have a lot to say about lives they’ve never lived, offering opinions and judgments about experiences and struggles of others they’ve never faced on paths they’ve never walked revealing their inadequacies in integrity and morality.
Everyone is susceptible for being targeted. Beware the bad actors from all walks of life and positions of power and influence, people hoping to diminish the value of your life and the strength of your social interactions. Facts do not cease to exist because these people decide to ignore them.
Find the proof. Follow the facts. Apply this strategy anytime, especially during every election season where psychotic individuals show up in full force voicing their delusional and deceptive messages.
Through social media posts, opinion pieces or propaganda rags, deception has become epidemic. Applying basic intelligence and a dose of healthy skepticism for the information we’re consuming will lead us all to a more rewarding and better way of life.
About the Author
Deborah Rose is a former Republican precinct officer and resident of Kootenai County
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