{"id":56136,"date":"2017-07-27T19:05:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56136"},"modified":"2017-07-27T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T19:05:15","slug":"scaramucci-on-symmetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=56136","title":{"rendered":"Scaramucci on symmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; &#038; compare the symmetry of projection ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>White House (new) communications director on symmetrical loyalty. At about the 4.25 mark:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maitlis v Mooch &#8211; in which he likens scrapping Obamacare to the abolition of slavery. Full interview. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/copnDSH4wo\">https:\/\/t.co\/copnDSH4wo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RupertMyers\/status\/890454206242488320\">July 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Scaramucci on Trump:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He\u2019s a remarkably loyal guy. The loyalty, though, has to be symmetrical. And good loyalty is always symmetrical, you don\u2019t want asymmetrical loyalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>File that under &#8220;on the importance of form&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Symmetry as projection:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matching <strong>Scaramucci<\/strong>&#8216;s symmetry of loyalty is <strong>James Fallows<\/strong>&#8216; symmetry of projection. From an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/notes\/2016\/10\/why-does-trump-project-so-much-a-hypothesis\/504293\/\">ongoing discussion with readers at The Atlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I argue that \u201cprojection,\u201d in the psychological sense, is the default explanation for anything Donald Trump says or does.<\/p>\n<p>Projection means deflecting any criticism (or half-conscious awareness) of flaws in yourself by accusing someone else of exactly those flaws. Is Trump\u2019s most immediately obvious trait his narcissistic and completely ungoverned temperament? (Answer: yes.) By the logic of projection, it thus makes perfect sense that he would brag that he has \u201cthe greatest temperament\u201d and judgment, and criticize the always-under-control Hillary Clinton for hers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of Fallows&#8217; follwers notes the connection between projection as parallelism and projection as self-reference (ie, our old frined the ouroboros):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In simple terms, one might say his [Trump&#8217;s] mind is empty of any thoughts that are not self-referential. And so self-projection is simply a consequence of this vacuity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s more in <strong>Peter Beinart<\/strong>&#8216;s article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/07\/the-success-of-smoke-and-mirrors\/533706\/\">The Projection President<\/a>, subtitled <em>Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents<\/em> &#8212; and see also <strong>Katy Waldman<\/strong>&#8216;s piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2017\/06\/trump_is_projecting_his_own_psychological_issues_all_over_america.html\">We the Victims<\/a>, subtitled <em>Trump\u2019s Paris accord speech projected his own psychological issues all over the American people.<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; &#038; compare the symmetry of projection ] . White House (new) communications director on symmetrical loyalty. At about the 4.25 mark: Maitlis v Mooch &#8211; in which he likens scrapping Obamacare to the abolition of slavery. Full interview. https:\/\/t.co\/copnDSH4wo &mdash; Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) July 27, 2017 Scaramucci on Trump: He\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,859,1479,436,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-form","category-ouroboros","category-psychology","category-symmetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56144,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56136\/revisions\/56144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}