Discover the Narcissistic Army: The Enablers and Admirers who Feed Their Egos and Validate Their Behaviors. Are you one of them? Learn more below!
While we consider ourselves omnipotent, powerful, and adept, the fact remains that we are unable to do much of what is required to collect our fuel, execute our machinations, and exercise control without the help of our supporters.
These are the people who make up the narcissistic army.
Gaining supporters is important to us and it is not difficult for us to do so. In the same way that we entice the person we pin as our primary source of fuel, we entice people to become our supporters.
Narcissistic Army Team: What Does It Take To Become One Of Our Supporters?
You have to fuel, that’s critical and something we expect from all of those we recruit to be supportive of us. Predictably enough, but we need more than just fuel.
We want your obedience, we want you to speak well of us to others and accept our opinions about those offered by others.
We want you to provide us with personality traits that we can personalize and pass on to the rest of the world. We want you to carry out our orders.
Not everyone we recruit can deliver on these requirements and so this results in us having different ratings of supporters.
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Where do these narcissistic supporters come from?
When you first mesh with our species, you’ll notice that we have family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances who think highly of us. There will be occasions when someone who seems strange will stop by and say hello to us on the street.
We receive particularly good service from a waitress who knows who we are. Our supporters are all around us.
They do not all have to be friends with us, many supporters remain in the ranks of acquaintances, colleagues, and followers without ever advancing to the status of being an internal or external friend, but to each of the categories of fuel supply that exists. These people are our supporters.
There will be a great infrastructure of supporters when we first interact but it won’t end there.
We want your supporters to become our supporters. Of course, those who support you are your supporters for entirely different reasons than our supporters. It doesn’t matter.
Your supporters will also be subject to charm, kindness, gentleness, and magnetism to draw them into our sphere of influence, anoint them as one of our supporters, and place them in the relevant category. We consider it essential that we recruit your supporters to be ours.
At first, it was not a mutually exclusive arrangement. Since you are in the golden age, it is easy for these people to support you and me. Once devaluation begins, and especially when a smear campaign is launched, the value of your supporters to us becomes even greater.
It is then that these supporters show their true value to my kind by changing the way they deal with you and/or refusing to change the way they deal with us. We always aim to recruit from your ranks.
Army of Narcissism: What Categories Do We Classify These Supporters Into?
- Interface:
I regularly mention how important interface maintenance is. We want the world to think we are kind, wonderful, interesting, charming, generous, and decent in every way.
These facade-dedicated people fuel us and think of us well. The interface is supported by a group of people ranging from family, friends, and colleagues all the way to strangers.
We want all your supporters to be convinced of this too, at a minimum, so that when the time comes to devalue, denigrate, and dispense you, you find you run into a wall of unquestionable individuals who all believe that we will never hurt you, that we are fit and that you should be made up, Or exaggerate or make things out of proportion.
- Clique:
This is the stable of our superstar supporters. They can be counted on to fuel us, more often and to a greater degree than those at the front.
This group will contain people who can provide us with those personality traits that we love to steal.
They believe everything we say and it is difficult to convince them that the facade is an illusion. They would gladly do things for us but are under no obligation to carry out our machinations directly against you.
We do not consider their loyalty and blind obedience to be so great. However, if we ask them to tell the world how amazing we are, they will.
If we wanted to borrow money, get a lift somewhere, ask them to pick up a package, etc., they would do it willingly.
A clique is a competitive place where its members compete against each other for our good, to show that they spend more time with us, that they spend time with us alone, or that we compliment them on someone else.
The clique can be counted on to always agree with us, disagree with you, laugh at our jokes, stand and listen to our tales and marvel at our magnificence. The fellowship will hug you warmly as we begin to seduce you but don’t be fooled. None of them are like you.
They only pretend to do this to gain our advantage. They are jealous because they want to be our favorite, and they want to be our primary source.
They don’t know what the primary source is, the same way you don’t, but they want to be seen the same way we look at you during seduction.
This promise of a more intense golden period for those they already enjoy keeps them in line. Imagine that there is a royal court and that these courtiers always give in to gossip, intrigue, and pretense to obtain some royal grace and favor from their sovereign; we.
When we give the signal, this group of people will turn their backs on you, and I will gladly spread our propaganda about you and support our defamation of you.
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- The Turncoat Clique:
This group is like the above clique but it contains those people who were once your supporters. At first, the person is admitted into our fellowship because they are satisfied with your support both you, and during the golden period there is no difficulty.
This one is assigned to Turncoat Coterie because they naturally promote the facade but they want more. They often call us and not you, they talk to us without you being there, and with time we ensure that their loyalty to us is greater than their loyalty to you.
To put it in your language, they start as one of your friends, become our friends, and then decide they want to be my friend instead of staying friends with you.
This person’s status never comes to light until it’s time to choose between you and me, which is usually around the time of the smear and ignore the campaign.
They will not actively do anything against you, but they will promote our slander to others and turn their backs on you when we decide that we should do so.
We do not enjoy such recruitment only because it increases the number of our supporters, but it also means that you will be hurt by their betrayal and this saves us fuel and confirms our strength.
- Lieutenants:
Clients who believe in what we say, remain loyal and will do our demands to retain our interests and obtain other tokens of our appreciation and generosity. Our assistants are not only those who fuel us and provide us with services but actively assist us in our intrigues.
Whether it’s figuring out information about a potential target before engaging, running one of our devaluing proxy manipulations, or using Hoover’s lieutenants, these are our elite supporters.
They may not be so numerous and not know what we are, but other than that they consider us a wonderful and magnetic person who has also done it right. We will have provided services to them to ensure their loyalty.
We’ll have some “dirt” on them too which we’ll use to apply pressure if we have any concerns about their loyalty wavering.
The lieutenant can be called on for fuel in times of emergency, to assist us in smear campaigns, gather information for us and stay loyal.
I like to keep one lieutenant you don’t know so he can be used with impunity more often than not during Hoover.
Unaware that this person is connected to me, your defenses will be lowered and this will enable my lieutenant to obtain information from you and initiate contact for me to improve Hoover’s odds of success.
You may find that shortly after you ran away from us, you were approached by someone who seemed romantically interested in you. There is a good chance that this person is a lieutenant who is not yet known to us.
Not only does this improve Hoover’s odds but if you happen to succumb to him and then run away or evade in the first place and realize a lieutenant is involved, this will keep you worried about anyone else who is romantically involved with you.
This makes you struggle to move on and find someone new to distract you from thinking about us.
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- Lieutenant Trinkot
The ultimate booster. This person is a friend or family member that you think you can count on and trust, but they are loyal to me, and not just that they are actively plotting against you.
This person is the one who enables me to get your new mobile phone number after changing it after running away.
This is the person who tells me where you have moved, where you will be on a given evening, and who you fraternize with to maximize my attempt to get rid of you.
This person will act for us so that during the devaluation when you seek solace from them and try to understand what is going on, this lieutenant of Turncoat will give reasons in support of my position and undermine yours. You can expect them to tell you.
“Are you sure this happened?”
“I think you’re overreacting, to be honest.”
“Maybe if you try x or y, he might calm down.”
“Well, is that any wonder, he works hard, maybe he’s nervous.”
“It’s nothing to worry about, trust me.”
“I became preoccupied with something that wasn’t a problem.”
“He does so much for you that you often don’t know about it.”
“I find it hard to believe, he’s always so good with me.”
“He didn’t mean that. I think you’re seeing something that isn’t there.”
“Take it from me, I know he has your best interests at heart.”
If you start hearing comments that sound as if my kind could have uttered them, you’re probably dealing with Lieutenant Trinkot. This person has often fallen for the lies we told about you and the charms we sent in their direction.
If this person is of the opposite sex (or the same if we are of that specific sexual orientation), there is a good chance they will be your surrogate and the reward for their loyalty to us and their betrayal of you will be to replace you as our primary source and as our intimate partner.
This person will present any distortion against you and also convince others among your supporters that you are right and you are wrong, thus causing confusion and doubt. Their influence is significant and we always aim to recruit such a person.
They often remain undetected, waiting for when we need to activate them and then they will wreak havoc on your camp, undermining you in front of others, turning people against you, and making you self-doubt. Lieutenant Trinkot is a dangerous weapon that was once recruited by us.
