Schaden Freude ::

synonyms :: sadism, sardonic
see also: COGNITIVE_DISSONANCE

..::”Schaden Freude” :: It is obvious that schadenfreude is not an English word — it’s German, and it’s made up of the words Schaden, which means “harm” and Freude, which means “joy.”   By definition, schadenfreude means finding joy in someone else’s harm or misfortune. Schaden Freude would be exactly against, or ” anti -” the teachings of Jesus Christ.

As the social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, noted that an “us” versus “them” mindset “…. often leads to comparing one’s enemies to infectious “parasites.” It results in using metaphors that evoke the moral emotion of disgust.  Disgust, according to psychologists Buckels and Trapnell “appears to have the unique capacity to foster the social-cognitive dehumanization of outcast members.”

Hitler understood this perfectly, and with his dehumanizing rhetoric, promoted an anti-Jewish exterminationist mentality across Europe. In 1943, Heinrich Himmler, whose mission was to make Jews “disappear from this earth,” declared that “Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of “lice” is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of “cleansing”. Nazi leader Hermann Goering referred to Jews as “swine.”

When the Nazis described Jews as “subhumans”, they didn’t mean it metaphorically, they meant literally “subhuman.”

“When a person dehumanizes another human being, they actually conceive of them as subhuman creatures.”

Psychologically, to kill another human being or to inflict atrocities against a human being is against our nature. So, when it does happen, it can be useful to understand what it is that allows human beings “to overcome the very deep and natural inhibitions every human has against treating other people like “sub-humans”.

President Trump uses similar dehumanizing language. New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and correspondent Maggie Haberman noted that Trump’s terminology of “infestation” makes immigrants into insects. Using metaphors such as insects, vermin, parasites, garbage, and such elicits the feelings of disgust one has for those things and connects that emotion of disgust with the person or group of people described.

According to psychologist David Matsumoto and his colleagues, combining feelings of disgust with contempt and anger is particularly potent. Leaders who generate these three emotions at once can engender violence against the targets of their dehumanization.

During the Holocaust, over 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos were established in Europe. Today, almost half of Americans cannot name a single one. Not even Auschwitz. In fact, when asked about it by name in 2018, more than 40% of American adults and fully two-thirds of American Millennials did not know what Auschwitz was.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happiness-and-the-pursuit-leadership/201909/human-beings-are-not-insects-vermin-parasites-or

“Amts sprache” … (This expression was used by Nazi officials to describe a bureaucratic language that denies choice, with words like: “should,” “have to,” “ought.”)

https://www.cnvc.org/what-nvc/articles-writings/anger-and-domination-systems/anger-and-domination-systems

..::” The most dangerous psychological mistake is the PROJECTION of the shadow onto others. This is the root of almost all conflicts. ~Carl Jung

..::” If we do anything to harm someone else” a powerful new factor comes into PLAY: the need to JUSTIFY what you did”… Once the persecutor starts down the path of BLAMING THE VICTIM, he becomes likely to physically and psychologically attack the victim with even GREATER ferocity the next chance he gets. ~ Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) By Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson

..::” As the Buddha said, his teaching will not be destroyed by outsiders but by insiders who do not practice the true dharma. ~Chogyam Trungpa

..::”We are all going to die” all of us” what a circus! ” THAT ALONE should make us LOVE each other” but it doesn’t… We are terrorized and flattered by trivialities” we are eaten up by nothing. ~Charles Bukowski

..::”ca·ve·at emp·tor :: the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability before a purchase is made.  “caveat emptor” still applies when buying your spiritual teachings

….:: Hippocratic Oath :: Do no harm :: Ahimsa

Ahimsa :: (in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition)
respect for all living things and
avoidance of violence toward others”