People who pretend to be your friend: collaborators and traitors

Penultimately, collaborators/traitors invariably exhibit a ninth attribute: they unconsciously project their fear and self-hatred, as outcomes of their own victimhood, as fear of and hatred for the perpetrator's victims.

Finally, as a result of all of the above, the collaborator will exhibit a tenth attribute: the delusion that they are 'in control'; that is, they are no longer (and never were) the victim of violence themselves.

Tragically, of course, this delusion is a trap: an individual is never safe in the role of collaborator. The perpetrator might turn on them at any time.

Collaborators and traitors learn their 'craft' during childhood. Most usually it will originate when a parent terrorises the child (by threatening and/or inflicting violence) into collaborating with this parent against the other parent and/or the child's siblings. Sometimes it originates when a teacher terrorises the child into collaborating with the teacher against the child's fellow students, perhaps to find out who was responsible for some minor 'wrongdoing'.

Once the child has betrayed its siblings or classmates, it will usually need the 'protection' of the violent parent or teacher as a 'defence' against any retaliation by its siblings or classmates. Hence, it will become 'locked' into the role of collaborator/traitor out of fear of the perpetrator's violence against it as well as fear of the violent retaliation of siblings or classmates. This, of course, suits the perpetrator.

The collaborator will perform this role throughout their life as they now unconsciously recognise and identify with those who are most violent, including state authorities that inflict 'legitimised' violence on those individuals perceived as 'enemies' or 'criminals'.