Picture if you will Don Quixote delusionally misperceiving a windmill as a villainous adversary and charging it, only to get picked up by his petard, taken to the top of the windmill's swing, and then dropped on his head. If you've got that image, you've got the "injustice hound" in action. They are professional injustice-nurturers and windmill-tilters par excellence. They usually have the "Don Quixote" kind of lack of effectiveness and self-defeatingness in the process. Robin Hood was what could be characterized as a mythical positive "injustice hound", and many "criminal personality" types are more malevolent and serious versions of it.
HOW DID THEY GET THIS WAY?
The parents here are deeply resentful of the world and of the child, and they take an ungiving, demanding, negatively assumptive approach to dealing with both. They also tend strongly to withhold attention unless much powerlessness-victimization and injustice-nurturing behavior is forthcoming from the child. In addition, they systematically harass and stress-induce, backing off only out of occasional guilt episodes and care-taking when things like illnesses and injuries occur.
The parents have a deeply disparaging view of other people and the universe, with a profoundly nihilistic basic belief system. They unstintingly share this with the child, and in essence, they take their bitterness and ire out on the child. In effect, they scapegoat the child, and in the process make the child feel horrendously guilty and ashamed.
They alternate this pattern with periods of guilt-based receptivity to whining, hassling, rebellion and hypochondriacal complaints from the child. After all, these are very congruent with their experience of life, and they get off on the "chip off the old block" patterns involved. In addition, they use the child as an indirect action-arm against the environment as a righteous issue-raiser and trouble-maker, although always in a self-defeating manner to stay in line with the parents' cynical and nihilistic premises.
This whole process of "passing it on" and setting the individual up in this way arises from their intense dislike of the child and/or the fact that they actually have a child, and the individual ends up having to settle for "get-back" payoffs in the form of making the environment uncomfortable and wrong as their only life-support system.
WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?
The result is an individual who is dejected and resigned, a despair-monger who feels hapless, helpless and hopeless. They feel lost in a foul world, that they are going down the tubes, and that they can't impact effectively to change things. They have no sense of identity, worth or contribution capacity. They feel judged, rejected, excluded and suppressed all the time, out of an underlying sense of worthlessness and deservingness of such experiences. Basically, they feel that they are part of the problem, rather than being part of a solution, and they feel the need for atonement experiences to "make up for that".
At the same time, they have a terrifically egocentric frame of reference. They have very little capacity for compassion, comprehensive comprehension or containment. They only experience from their enraged victim position, and they have little ability to empathize, appreciate or prognosticate effectively. They are in effect a demanding, tantrumming infant who feels they shouldn't have to be accountable for anything.
They felt over-burdened and under-nourished by their family and now by the world. There is much resentment-depression, and their injustice-hounding is in part a bid for attention without accountability or responsibility for doing anything about that which they are pointing out so vehemently. "Betrayal" is the backbone of the "injustice hound's" entire system of being. They have an elephant's memory and a file-cabinet of grievances that they never forget/forgive, and that they keep adding to, and that they recite constantly to themselves and others.
They are heavily into black/white rigid morality arising from their "splitting" cognitive process where things are either all good or all bad. It arises from a developmental "flatline" at about toddler age, which is when the parental process really hit home. They are hypersensitive, with very easily hurt feelings, and they are prone to temper tantrums over unreleased family experiences and resentments. They are also intensely involved in the "drama triangle" of the "victim-persecutor-rescuer" variety, which adds significantly to their accountability- and responsibility-avoidant stance from which they are coming.
"Injustice hounds" have a "misery loves company" orientation, and they want you to share their misery, to cut you down to their size, especially if you are among those whom they characterize as the "fat cats" and "bosses". They seek to create despair and unhappiness in others to match their own. Their whole trip is in a way a "get-back at Daddy" number. They want you to make up for their losses, and they want you to atone for their misery.
Nothing is ever enough for them, and there is never a happy ending to anything. They feel that they put out tremendous service and that they are never appreciated for it. They resent all their "victimization", and they hang on to old resentments forever. They are masterful grudge-holders and "accounts-demanders". In effect, you can do no right for them, and they can't take in love or happiness.
They are profoundly guilt/shame-motivated and guilt/shame-inducing in their whole approach. They hang onto their script like their life depends on it, and in a very real way, it does. There was an annihilation-implant so strong that they are willing to put their life on the line to "fight the good fight" at the risk of being terminated by the "giant fly-swatter".
They do a pseudo-rescuer number in which they become morally righteous, guilt-inducing and evil-identifying. It arises from their own self-pity and "poor l'il ol' me" ("PLOM" -- poor little old me) feelings. They are professional scapegoats and losers who use the negative outcomes of their undertakings as atonement-payment for their "worthlessness and evilness".
They are cynical, disparaging and dedicated to "Burn the Bastille!" (which is a stone building) as their raison d'etre (reason or justification for existing). They also do the "Get the Bismark!" (a giant battleship) thing from their rowboat. But they never really seek to problem-solve. They are intensely resentful, and they have an attitude that everything is screwing them over. They believe in their heart of hearts that this is truly the nature of the world -- a vast fuck-over system. "Woe is me!" is their motto, and they are masters of the cop out, the do-for coerce, the "wooden leg" excuse ("What do you expect of someone with a wooden leg?"). They would much rather gripe and groan than put out and correct things.
HOW DO THEY FUNCTION?
"Injustice hounds" have no sense of identity, worth or contribution capability other than their "whistle-blower" function. Take that away and there's nothing, so they defend their system to the death. They have a heavy self-worth problem that really flares up when injustices hit their awareness. Their worth/integrity gets involved with being a party to it, and they then have to take action.
They are experts at guilt-hooking to gain validation and support for their whole trip. They precipitate and prey upon your guilt for not sacrificing yourself totally for your parents ("God"), as applied to whatever their current "mission impossible" is. They also take advantage of and feed into and off of other people's problems and short-comings to run their "Let's you and him fight!" lifestyle.
They do everything they can to turn everything into an injustice to validate their beliefs, to maintain their script, and to inflate their position by grandiose persecution and putting people down "even lower than I am". They rationalize their victim trips with "The system sucks and picks on those who try to fix it!". And they justify their negative behavior in terms of their downtrodden quality of life.
"Injustice hounds" are inveterate platter-slappers who blow away over and over again opportunities and out-routes presented by the universe. In effect, they are self-victimizers and self-saboteurs -- all so they can moan and groan and grumble. They precipitate continuous interactions and altercations around their resentments -- at the expense of all else. They operate as infiltrating commandos with a moral superiority complex and a "Don Quixote" windmill-tilting propensity. It's a non-accountable self-defeating atonement trip that operates in a "suck the environment into it" manner.
They are professional rabble-rousers who never take responsibility for the outcomes. It's a "dream the impossible dream -- and create a nightmare" impotent raging and sympathy-sop pattern. Pouting and "Yeah, but . . ." are their trademarks. They always have the facts straight, but their selection, interpretations and interventions are always negative and self- and other-defeating. They are very control-seeking and behind-the-scenes trouble-stirring, and because they are often correct in their "whistle-blow" information, they can often create quite a stir indeed.
"Injustice hounds" constantly grab for money, recognition, prestige rescue as a way out, but nothing works because they don't believe they deserve anything, and because they can't let their script go (which would be experienced as identity-annihilation). They constantly reinforce and regenerate their impotent rage with rehearsals of the injustices that surround them. They sort and set up on failure to meet their needs as being the only important thing to pay attention to. The result is a "lose-lose out the wazoo" pattern, and ultimately nothing but universal misery results. They are a walking solution-invalidating despair-monger, because despair is their security blanket and "racket emotion".
They are also "professional orphans" who live with settle-for and hand-me-down resources in a "pity-pit" environment, which has a dank and deteriorated atmosphere. They burn themselves up bodily and destiny-wise with repeated re-activation and re-strengthening of their programming. They are horrendously pessimistic and fatalistic, and they "gloom and doom" all the time in a massive learned helpless- and impotence-rage trip. Intimates can't win and they get worn down to the death by the "injustice-hound's" punishment, despair-mongering, wrong-making and accusations. They blame the world for their misery, and then they induce a sense of responsibility for their misery in their kids, and the whole thing gets passed on.
HOW CAN THEY BE HELPED?
As was indicated, this is a highly intractable self-preserving system in many "injustice hounds". However, if they an older soul for whom it was only a training program, some really effective therapeutic intervention can result.
The general idea is that they need a "brick wall with love" experience in which the therapeutic agents care enough to give the very worst. They need continuous interruption of their despair-induction chains in the form of caring confrontations. Re-framing and shifting their point of reference help a lot, as in, "What does that really get you?" and "How are they me? What about me am I attacking?".
They also need personal power training so that they can begin to effectively impact positively for themselves and others. This involves their being taken through a "success ladder" series of experiences, with no allowance for cop-outs, fuck-ups or disrupt-powers. They have to be given direct experiences of the positives of the world, and as a result of their own efforts.
They will try extremely hard to preserve their bitter view of the world, and they must be prevented from sabotaging themselves with despair-validating backfires of their own engineering. This will take up a great deal of the therapeutic intervention energy and time. But if you and they can stick it through, the results are worth it.
WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE?
They have been on an around-the-world tour of just exactly how things don't work and why. They have therefore picked up a tremendous amount of pragmatic wisdom to share with the world in the way of making sure that things DO work for a change. When they have broken out of their script, they make marvelous trouble-shooters and problem-solvers. They use their skill at identifying "weak links" to generate solutions that really work.
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