As the lower class gradually began to win out over the uppe…
As the lower class gradually began to win out over the upper, I see in the upper class (which I trace down to modern leftism) a transition from overt narcissism to covert narcissism. What began as a people who saw themselves as so obviously superior that there was no need to question or justify it, who reveled in domination turned into a group of people whose sense of superiority is at odds with reality and who try to invade and control things by appearing innocuous and by saying the exact opposite of what they truly mean. In them we see the same contempt and fear of the lower class as the ancient upper class had for their slaves yet today it comes in the form of projection onto the right of everything that they themselves are. In the right I see a false consciousness, or what we would today call an identification with the abuser. In the right I see an admiration for ancient conquerors and kings who I see as more properly associated with the left (and of course the left agrees that these people are "right-wing") and I see in the right an attempt to gain control of the power of the state and make it work for them, which isn't really what that power is good for.