Stickied for the interesting info Anon.

This could be useful for some people.

Enjoyed the read.

In future articles, we at the Touchbase will be considering various treatment methods for group narcissism. However, in the interim, here are some strategies for deradicalizing:

Never argue with a group narcissist. Instead, ask them open-ended questions that probe the uncertain boundaries of their abstract, grandiose group self-image. Encourage them to refine their group self-image (refinement is, after all, the essence of civilization).

Treat them with respect and afford them the civility demanded by our civil religion. For more information on how to do this, see my Primer.[xi]

Understand that their group self-image may be starved for validation given the harshness of the modern world and try to help them understand how you came to terms with the fallibility of your own group or personal identity.

Involve them in convivial social events and then passively encourage them to project their aggressive, conspiratorial inner world onto you. This can help them observe how their dedication to their group self-image causes them to behave antisocially around friends. The Posen faux pas described above is especially instructive here.

Encourage them to see the authorities and experts to whom they defer in life as fallible humans just like any other.

Talks about deradicalizing "Qanons". LOL

Is this satire?

This article is excellent stuff.

It reads like a pseudo-intellectual piece from The Atlantic, well written and well cited — albeit this article is far better at crafting a cohesive narrative than the incessant meandering The Atlantic does lately — and uses their own popular language against them, entirely viably, plausibly, seriously, and non-sarcastically.

In true leftist publication fashion, this article doesn’t argue or rebut leftist ideas or talking points. It doesn’t ask for opinions or get mired in “good faith discussion”.

It doesn’t read as the typical right wing “CNN calls Trumpers authoritarians but actually Biden…” defensive play we usually see.

No. It asserts that the narrative it is presenting is the sensible and logical truth (as it is), and that the reader is already well aware of this truth, and of the problem at hand, and the article is merely presenting its solutions to the already established, self-evident, and mutually agreed upon truth of leftist extremism.

This is an excellent example of taking back the culture and language.