Counter-Narcissist Cheat Codes

A new psychological defense series.

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As we celebrate and reflect on the think tank’s first year of existence in such a monumental year, a great deal of new thought has been centered on how CNI’s main mission and focuses can be updated, recalibrated and adapted to better provide the most actionable psychological intelligence and be the best force multiplier we can be for individuals and Team Humanity.

As always, our top mission is to help good people and those trying to be good to better understand and know how to most effectively harness their strengths and energies, to contain or defeat the destructive psychological threats we all face as people, families, communities and societies.

It seems very much the case that everyone in the free world is facing multitudes of existential dangers due to various decades long efforts by dark, nefarious and/or psychologically disordered forces who have been driving us to this foolish fascist crossroad they fantasize about implementing. As is always the case with fascism, it is all purely for selfish reasons, which brings us to the first cheat code in the series. Fascism is narcissism.

Just like trump, every malignant narcissist hopes to rule as a dictator so they can never be held accountable for the dirty deeds they do or for being the horrible, toxic and cruel person that they are, and fascism has always aligned perfectly with highly narcissistic behaviors. Indeed they all fantasize and crave the ability to use the levers of power to punish their enemies, destroy their rivals, enrich themselves, control the law and thus everyone else by declaring they have “total immunity” from everything, making them untouchable. Yep, every malignant narcissist’s fantasy!

We know from all of human history that, “absolute power corrupts absolutely” so just imagine how dangerous it is to give power to an absolutely corrupt and desperate narcissist out for revenge. Unfortunately, this is currently a reality or potential reality for most global citizens because there are far more malignant narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths in or around positions of power than most of humankind realizes. How the corporate media misses or pretends not to see obvious psychological disorders hiding in plain sight, and doesn’t know how to counter them is a mystery for the history books.

The stark truth that too many do not see what is right in front of them confirms there is an urgent need for more easily accessible, rapid response psychological intelligence like the first cheat code above. It is easy to remember and a deep psychological truth but it is something that neither fascists nor narcissist can ever admit, so must be wielded with great caution, because it will open up cans of troll worms most don’t want to deal with. This cheat code is more for personal clarity when thinking about either fascists or narcissists, but I repeat myself.

Certainly different cheat codes will have different positive and negative uses but the goal with every code, rule or axiom is to provide useful intelligence to every honest person trying to fight, defend and plan more effectively against the human predators who hunt our individual rights, resources and group freedoms compulsively, so they can feel less weak and out of control.

The primary cause of this existential ignorance is global psychiatric and psychological leadership has made no attempt to educate the public for decades nor seems to have any sense of obligation to warn the free world about the psychological threats and predators who hunt our rights and freedoms from without and within.

Sadly many have repeatedly failed democracy’s test by profiting off their own silence. They have watched various narcissist cabals loudly marching us down a dystopian hellscape for years and yet have done nothing to stop it, when it must be stopped and reversed soon, or they turn humanity and Earth to ash. Keep in mind there are few things more obvious and true than, “There is no Planet B.”

On the bright side, a main part of CNI’s mission has always been to help reveal obscured truths and teach the highly predictive angles and patterns that can be used to stop various forms of narcissists, or at least provide some clarity on bottom line issues when battling one or more of these disordered users, abusers and other types of toxic predators, individually or in groups.

In that spirit and considering the above immediate dangers and realities, we are developing a cheat code series that will provide overall breakdowns, CNI analysis, potential uses and current applications. Each piece will also contain at least a few “pretty well established” fundamental rules that incorporate empirical psychology with CNI philosophy which makes them worth noting, because most “Rules” are mini-cheat codes in themselves.

In time, a refined comprehensive list of philosophical rules, principles and axioms will be compiled and displayed in our topical library. In the meantime, as an example here are three of CNI’s fundamental rules and axioms to be carefully considered when devising a plan to deal with one or more malignant narcissists, sociopaths or psychopaths.

Rule - Always be sure to remember that most clinical level narcissists are psychologically incapable of ever truly caring about anyone except themselves no matter what they say, do or promise, unless it is very much in their own self-interest to do so, and they don’t get a better offer. Virtually everything for narcissists is cynically transactional.

Example - Name one thing trump has ever done that showed he cared about anyone else that didn’t benefit him.

Rule - They will only stop using, abusing, toxifying and taking what is not theirs when someone or something stops them, because they are psychologically incapable of stopping themselves from doing whatever they want, whenever they want, and going after what they subconsciously and compulsively crave, until there is a firm barrier like jail, financial ruin or a fear of public exposure there to stop them.

Example - Think about how trump completely ignored and blew past every historical precedent, guardrail and tradition of democracy without a second thought no matter how loud the protest. What a coincidence his every behavior is a perfect impression of malignant narcissist behavior, or is it?

Rule - Due to a virtually non-existent public psychological defense education system outside of spy schools, what the vast majority of the planet fails to realize is that people with these disorders are masters of lies and creating alternate realities because they have spent a lifetime hiding their true thoughts and selfish intentions.

This means nearly all narcissists have learned they will be shunned if they do not pretend to have a moral compass and empathy for other humans besides themselves. This is also why we so often find out later that people who appeared to be relatively normal were actually someone very different and much darker than they pretended to be for decades.

Example - For several years many thought Elise Stefanik was a reasonable and rational “conservative,” but her recent slavish sycophancy to trump as exhibited by her willingness to say literally any lie has revealed a completely different type of human was underneath all along, and has some experts calling her herr trump’s Eva Braun.

She was almost certainly always someone other than who she pretended to be by hiding a very dark psyche beneath a public facade of reasonableness . However, once being sociopathically loyal to trump became her road to money and power, she gleefully dropped her “mask of sanity” for a first class seat on trump’s slow-motion train wreck.

How it happens to the best of us

If you have ever been deceived by a narcissist, sociopath or psychopath trickster, try not to be too hard on yourself. They have a variety of conscious and unconscious defense mechanisms, instinctual behaviors and adaptive traits that can fool everyone including top psychological experts over short periods of time.

Indeed clinical level narcissists are often the ultimate charmers, love bombers, storytellers, dramatic actors and virtue signalers, because they know on some level they need to hide who they really are, and/or have never been able to psychologically handle the truth.

Usually a lifetime of practice is why so many narcissists can “lie like breathing,” and thus can convincingly make up complex false realities that they wish were true. Many also falsely play the victim or a prophet to help them easily manipulate narcissistically groomed followers into unwittingly giving them money, doing their bidding and/or becoming full blown flying monkey minions under their dishonest yet charismatic mind-control spells their prey was groomed with.

One of the field’s most famous and respected books, “seminal works and the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the twentieth century” is called “The Mask of Sanity.” This should give you a deeper understanding of how practiced those higher level narcissists are at hiding who they really are in the shadows, or in plain sight, in any large group or setting, in every kind of society, and in every type of political system.

However, the longer and greater the amount of trauma or perceived trauma in a group or society has existed, the more narcissists are created by that trauma within and new predators are attracted from without. It does not take much imagination to understand why psychic vampires are magnetically pulled towards trauma, fear, domination and chaos. These are their most familiar battlefields and hunting grounds because unhealthy narcissists instinctively use trauma, fear and chaos against us normies. Common magnets are also part of why narcissists of a feather flock together.

The fact that most democratic societies and their leaders continue to have massive blindspots for malignant narcissist realities dictates CNI stay focused on finding new, creative and more effective paths to help more people see the current psychological big picture. This way, each interested party can see what needs to be done from their own vector to help the forces of good turn America and the world back towards optimism, positivity and reality again.

Solutions, empirical psychology and more clarity guide CNI’s positive path forward

From our long-term polling, what is apparent in this 24/7 news cycle narcissism age is the fact that dry and jargon-filled psychological truths have a very bad habit of not sticking in the public’s or an individual mind’s eye for very long. I get it. I thought some stuck but in my first few months of research years ago, I quickly learned how little empirical psychology society understood, including me.

This reality long ago confirmed the need for more creative and entertaining methods to help key psychological intel stick better in the media and in the minds of those who need it most to personally defend themselves.

Although it is starting to change, narcissist psychology has a bad habit of not sticking in the mind or public’s eye for very long, because too few have had the spare time and/or patience to incorporate deeply abstract and nuanced psychological concepts, as an effective method of understanding and countering those who compulsively interpret and react towards the world with a much darker lens.

The way we are going to defeat them individually and in groups is by using their own narcissistic psychology against them and to know what they are always up to: Serving themselves. It may take a lot of time and fortitude but never underestimate the likelihood of a victory in the long-term when actually having truth, logic and reality on your side.

This is why CNI is so focused on providing information, tools and intelligence that hopefully makes it easier for everyone on the side of humanity to improve on their own psychological arsenal and defenses. Every tiny bit of narcissist knowledge the people on the side of humanity gains makes us exponentially stronger and them weaker.

Once a critical mass of people realize every society’s predators always go after money, power and control they are unworthy of, their manipulative magic tricks will no longer fool large segments of society. Unfortunately, without the psychological establishment’s leadership, corporate media educational coverage and greater academic participation, this is a much longer road than it should be in a democratic republic rightly trying to save itself from dark anti-democratic forces.

The CNI “Cheat Code” series

As every journey begins with a first step, the CNI Cheat Code series will start with the easiest tools to understand, remember and smoothly incorporated into most people’s psychological thought patterns. As we go, we will build up the reader’s knowledge foundationally, and layer by layer from there.

Indeed “old tricks are the best tricks,” the easiest psychology to remember and the most likely to achieve critical mass to force the politicians into real and positive change. However, in psychology there are levels upon levels within levels, so this series should help you find the level most comfortable and useful to you. We currently estimate a minimum of 10 cheat code defense classes in this series.

How learning CNI cheat codes should help you

It should usually be the case that once you recognize someone is a malignant narcissist, sociopath or psychopath, and the implications of how that kind of psychology affects and compulsively drives a person’s behavior, you are well on your way to learning one of many narcissist psychology cheat codes.

Translation: Even if you do not know what dirty deeds or the details of what a narcissist is up to, you will still always generally know who they really are, what they really want, what they are really thinking, how they psychologically live with themselves, and what they are doing or trying to do in almost every single situation they are involved in, forever.

Rule - In serving themselves 24 / 7 / 365, they are ruthless, shameless, conscienceless and remorseless in attempting to gain whatever they want, because most to all of the time, they do not see other people as humans. They see other people as tools which includes everyone in their family and especially their own children who can be groomed from birth to be easily conditioned, used and manipulated towards whatever the narcissist parent’s cravings are.

One counter-intuitive sign to keep an eye out for is that narcissists often produce high achievers because children of narcissists are almost always pushed to excel in school, sports, entertainment or something by the parent to fool the public with the illusion of a child’s success, so they can claim to be good parents and normal humans, which is of course almost always the opposite of the truth.

Indeed their kids are often successful in something but since what they excel in was never for them, their success rarely fulfills them, because what they really wanted and needed all along was authentic parental love, as opposed to being someone else’s tool to create an illusion of normalcy.

Rule - Who they really are is someone who only thinks about themselves and how things affect them. They live with it by lying to themselves and everyone else about who they really are and what they do. For some reason they have learned not to admit that they are always greedy and will always selfishly go after any power, money and control they can, no matter how small.

They are compulsively driven towards these things by their fears, insecurities and/or overall predatory psychology. Of course, when being dishonest and manipulative, having no conscience or the normal range of human emotions such as empathy, shame, guilt, or remorse allows narcissists to seemingly tell their lies with complete conviction.

In this upcoming week’s first edition of CNI Cheat Codes, we present an analysis of perhaps the most well known, obvious and useful narcissistic cheat code. If you already know projection well, you know it is often the narcissists first, last and middle line of defense, so CNI greatly encourages you to share your wisdom with others and suggestions in the comments to help more truly understand how almost every narcissist’s accusation is an unconscious confession.

Quite the cheat code for those currently unaware of the full spectrum of this most obvious psychological tell. It perhaps even has potential to reach some propagandized but changeable minds if they can be shown the truth of the projection dynamic.

Please note there is a long list of psychological cheat codes we can focus on and explore via CNI analysis so your feedback will help choose which codes are prioritized for more urgent strategic reasons.

Of course we need to add every legal disclaimer that nothing here should be considered anything beyond the author's personal beliefs, and should not be considered advice in any way, because each person’s situation is unique and so every individual should consult a professional about their own specific situation before taking any kind of psychological action appearing to be suggested or implied here.