I’ve once written about the “victim mentality” and especially about its effects in another language.
It’s a mental frame based on the impression of being victimized.
So, to maintain the mental frame, you can’t be the stronger, better person/tribe/country/etc.
And it can creates inferior complex, which, in turn, results in exaggerated efforts of self-assertion.
I see this in gay parades, some forms of feminism, and so on.
And i this mental frame, “the victims” are the good one without any doubt and oppressors (or whoever they take as the oppressors) are the wrong/evil/stupid/whatever-bad-and negative.
In other words, it produces self-righteous people of fanatic tendencies.
We can observe these in some of both Jews and Arabs, as well as Nazi and some of US folks.
Some of anti-NWO folks and ecologist may have similar tendencies, too.
Anyone who feels “weak” and “victimized” can fall into this mental cage, I guess.
From outside, it appears too obvious, but they can’t see because of stagnant and sticky mental frame they wish to hold so tightly.
Probably, they don’t want to let go of this absurd mental frame because it offers the absolute certainty (although false) that they are right/good/positive, and that makes them feel good … in a twisted way.
Another twisted side effect of victim mentality is really absurd and somewhat less frequent.
To maintain the status of “being victimized”, some of “victim mentality” folks can actually produce the situation where they can be victimized, or even they can make a show in which they can play the victim …
In the war, it’s common to attack own troop/people disguised as the enemy and then using it as the reason to make offensive moves.
And on top of these, the person (or community/tribe) in “victim mentality” CANNOT be totally happy.
If they become totally happy, they would forget about being victim and oppressed, and thus loose the basis of their victim mentality.
They are identifying with the horror, sadness, misery, and so on.
So, it’s normal if they can’t be happy. They prefer to be in trouble rather than worry free. They chose to be like that.
Now, I think many of us have a bit of “victim mentality” somewhere in our consciousness/subconsciousness.
As any other tendencies of ours, it’s not always easy to notice. And it’s not easy to see the implication and absurdity, either.
I guess some of us need to taste it fully to get over with it, while others might be able to see the cause and effects of it and loose interests in holding such belief/mental-frame.
I have rarely seen someone in victim mentality coming out, easily.
Rather, I see more people (scared people, for example …) getting into the victim mentality, and some people might be intentionally guiding mass into it, using scare tactics, as well.
It works surprisingly well on relatively simple minded people …
Although I agree that it would contribute to better mental health and world peace, I don’t think many people would conquer victim mentality.
One remedy for the victim mentality might be accepting the total uncertainty of this world.
With it, we don’t need to “justify” ourselves, we don’t have to identify ourselves in any way, we can’t be good nor bad, inferior nor superior, and so on.
But again, I don’t think it’s an easy thing for most of us.