I have a weird theory. What if Narcissistic Personality Disorder can be trained, and it is actively being used in politics?
I looked it up, and it appears that NDP is mostly men. I find this odd because it's been my experience that women suffer from it more. In fact, I can't think of many men with the actual disorder. It's more than an inflated ego, it's the sense that they are the center of the world and if they can't control it, something is wrong. If their ego isn't being constantly stroked, they're actually scared everything is about to fall apart.
I'm not claiming expertise on the subject, but the disorder is relatively unknown on how it is caused. I bet there is a genetic form of it and a trained form of it. The genetic form is just a special form of anxiety. The trained could explain things like Love Bombing and political tirades. I saw a lot of people at CHAS who were convinced they were doing this grand thing. They didn't see the paid controllers or money being spent to make it look good.
The Red Guard wars in China were students who couldn't agree on who was more communist. The idea that the more communist you were, the better a person you were ended up in raging gang violence between schools. Teenagers naturally have a bit of NDP but grow out of it as they mature. True story, most kids don't understand that their parents don't know how their day went, because the kid assumes the entire world revolves around them. My son got angry at me last year because he thinks I go on theme park rides and go through cool museums all the time.
To this day, I read articles by lefties about how Trump is losing power and will be destroyed any minute now. It hit me that they were enjoying being the loud voice more than the actual knowledgeable person. It's almost childlike in their devotion of otherwise perfectly sane people. So, could they be trained in this idea? Could that be ingrained in teenagehood and never really rested in adulthood? If so, how do you overcome this? Mayo clinic says you need talk therapy, but they're also saying that it's mostly men with NDP.
It took until this year for “psychologists” to admit women are psychopaths at similar rates to men. You have to understand that in the “social sciences” social pressures are held over any actual data. This is why their abstract and conclusions are wildly different than the actual observed data anymore (the “gay gene” study last year was a shining example of that). Women dominating the social sciences and the general effeminate nature of the field has led to massively false claims and hiding of anything negative about women/ lgbtq.
Gay Gene?
It was accepted dogma that homosexuality was a genetic based behavior. This has been massively debunked by actual genetic research, homosexuality is a learned behavior.
When you think about it, this makes sense, as homosexuality is by its nature incapable of passing its genes down to offspring. Any genetic disposition towards same would breed itself out in very short order.
They did a study on a “theory” that was touted as fact for a while after the gay gene theory was debunked. Essentially they claimed it was an amalgamation of genes that causes homosexuality since they couldn’t act fine the gay gene. The study they put out showed only an 8-25% correlation between their theorized amalgamation in the data among the largest sample of gay men ever collected, this of course led to them claiming in the conclusion “that evidence of the genetic disposition for homosexuality exists”.
Yet like you said, observable reality indicates that abuse by deviants leads to deviancy at higher rates than that.
The medical system is easily convinced to lie to the people.
NPD as defined in the DSM is mostly male, because the entire psychiatric profession has been completely ideologically captured by women whose sole aim is to justify their own entitlement and neuroses by pathologizing normal male behavior and normalizing female pathology.
Yeah, I remember DSM2, but I guess we're at 5 now.
Here's another strange thought. I've heard of the condition being misconstrued as autism.
I still don't know if this was some language related translation error or what, but I've heard from a German about how he specifically had to get treated for NPD as a child/teenager. Yet everything he said could've easily been swapped to describe treating someone with autism.
Are you certain he wasn't just German and the Americans couldn't figure things out?
I've had people assume I'm autistic because I tend to follow common German cultural traits. That's a really interesting subject to me, because we have so many cultures that could be mislabeled entirely because its weird to another culture.
Oh no, he's never been to America. He's German as in, lives in Germany. And I'd asked him if he meant autism or something like that and he insisted that no, he meant he was treated for narcissism.
Another curious thing too is some of what he described could've also been confused for sociopathy. He'd had a really bad childhood that messed his head up a bit. It left him having trouble feeling empathy for other people, etc.
He insisted it wasn't this either when I asked him. Hence why I found the whole thing kind of fascinating as I started seeing loose correlations with each condition's symptomology.
Ok. I stand corrected. And yeah, I can see that. I'm a foster parent and every kid I've had has a bit of sociopathy because they were raised up in a rather evil circumstances. It takes a while to train that out of them, and is the part they never explain to future foster parents.
social media sure amplified it many magnitudes... sad i think internet is doing more harm than good when it was made readily and easily available to every dumbass.
I doubt it's the internet. We've had this same problem for decades, the Internet is just showing how much we've been duped.
I dont think it goes as far as full on diagnosable NPD, I just think progressives have convinced themselves that their Good Intentions™ give them carte blanche to dictate to everyone else how they should live, and that thinking about trade offs, or even about results, doesn't matter.
I'd lean more toward group narcissism aka extreme tribalism...over individual narcissism.
You watch one of your own tribal members get hurt and you wince or get angry.
vs
You watch enemy tribe members get killed and feel nothing as they are outgroup.
The whooping and howling about attacking and destroying 'outgroup' tribe members.
A pathological dedication to your own tribe while an abject either hatred or apathy towards any other tribe.
It would explain those people who act as if them saying something will have everyone cheer though. Tribal Personality Disorder is an interesting idea. Could you explain it more?
Schizophrenia can so I don't see why not. Look at Aum Shinrikyo
That's a rabbit hole to look into. I've found a paper on it that I will read later.
There are a lot of people with NDP but I think the bigger problem is lack of empathy. Too many people confuse empathy with sympathy, which is another problem.
Empathy is understanding how another person feels and how they see the world and very, very few people are able to do that. Not just that they can't see the world beyond themselves, but they don't understand how other people see the world.