Characteristics that are likely to appear in any form or scale of bullying

Here are the characteristics shown in completely fictional (typical from my childhood) incident above, which are likely to appear in any form or scale of bullying:

• The choice of target is made entirely on the bully meeting its needs to off-load. It is not personal. It is not about the target. The only thing the bully needs from the recipient of its bullying is a reaction. This is what makes the bully feel powerful and in control.
• Impotence in the bully. In their world they lack something, which they might think you have.
• The target has more strength than the bully. The more strength the target has (in the bully’s mind) the better the bully feels when they get power and control over the target by illiciting a reaction.
• What the bully says is invented by them, entirely for effect. If one line-of-attack doesn’t work, the bully will conjure up another one. It doesn’t matter if these attacks contradict each other. Propaganda is a type of bullying. The bully just needs to find what the target is sensitive about. The only truth found in what the bully says would be about the bully, not the target.
• The core of bullying is projection, without self-awareness. We all project as it is the best way to see ourselves, reflected in other people. You will find out what the bully secretly thinks about themselves by hearing what they’re saying and flipping it back onto them.
• Bullying is dumping, or off-loading. Dumping is another good word for bullying, as it describes the off-loading of their unconscious worries, denials, or unwanted feelings or emotions, upset, annoyance, pain or frustration. Society could reduce interpersonal crime by documenting abuse done to children and ensuring young people get support when they need it.

There are forms of bullying that are very hard to spot. However, they still share these characteristics. For one reason, these forms of bullying might be so deeply ingrained in society or even law, that a particular kind of response is needed from society or the establishment to stop it occurring. One example here is warmongering or attacking another nation. War is bullying on a big scale. Propaganda is also a form of bullying, as is censorship. Gas lighting is a way of describing behaviours, which avoid accountability and blame their targets. Think of corporations putting the onus on the general public for their environmental messes.