Mob Mentality, Shared Delusion, Sick Dicks
When my ex-boyfriend and I were (mostly) broken up due to his unbridled despicableness, I went to a birthday party for one of his two brothers at his sister-in-law’s house where I’d been several times over the years. Mr. Piggy, my ex-boyfriend, had invited me to go with him.
You might be asking yourself, “Why would she go to a family party with her abuser?” I’ll answer roughly and briefly: I am the victim slash survivor of life-long, since infancy, narcissistic abuse and Family Scapegoat Abuse. I believe I had a “trauma bond” with Mr. Piggy.
After he invited me, he then uninvited me. This was unacceptable to me, so I showed up anyway. I wasn’t sure what I expected, but I didn’t expect to see and feel what I saw and felt. Mind you, this was before my mother died. I didn’t understand evil like I do now, since her death.
So I knock at Mr. Piggy’s sister-in-law’s door, wine in hand. She answers. Let’s call her Jen. So Jen answers and awkwardly invites me in. The women (the wives and moms of the family party goers) were somewhat pleasant but seemed uncomfortable. The brothers were another story. I certainly didn’t expect Mr. Piggy to tell his brothers that if I show up, to treat me with the utmost respect and courtesy. But I definitely didn’t expect them to be such unapologetic assholes. They ignored me, didn’t look me in the eye at all, and when I tried so say “Happy Birthday” to the brother whose birthday we were celebrating, he completely ignored me until his wife said something to him. So the women (kind-of) knew better, right-and-wrong wise, but the brothers? I couldn’t believe it. I was absolutely terrified that one bad man, Mr. Piggy, could talk his previously “nice” brothers into being sick dicks for no reason but Mr. Piggy told them to.
It was shortly after this event that I started studying up on the mechanics of evil. I’ve been terrified ever since (and I was already terrified). A disgusting person can just “say the word” and others will follow along no matter what.
How f***ing sick is this world?
This incident helped inspire me to explore and understand my mom and sister’s narcissism and how it seems like an entire world can be against me and treat me badly for no fault of my own, only at the behest and coercion of evil people. And sometimes they don’t even need those things (behest and coercion). Sometimes all it takes is just being a witness to someone being treated badly, then they think, “Oh. Okay. I guess I need to treat this person badly”.
You should all be very afraid.