It’s very difficult to name anything “new” in psychology that isn’t recycling ideas at least 40 years older, or often simply plagiarizing them .
And I came across the concept of moral masochism while researching antivaxxers and such, because I could not understand the people whose response to everything was “Hurr durr! Hurr durr! Derp! Deerrrp!”
That lead to the idea of the blankness of “characterological” issues. Bring up psychology and the response escalates to “HURR DURR!!! HURR DURR!!!” but generally nothing more than the same characteroligical blankness. Poke that with a stick and you’ll get swarmed by the blank-faced pod people:
Ultimately this is about a general hatred of reality and contempt for other people, as well as the destruction of knowledge and all means of understanding. Naturally psychology must be destroyed as well. There’s a sort Khmer Rogue mentality which is politically mostly in America’s right wing, but intellectually in the “as if personalities” of the left and right. It’s always a hoot when people who claim to believe so many things so intensely turn out to be nihilists.
