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Our Daily Dispatch from the Abyss, aka Chronicles of Malignant Narcissism:
"Since a narcissist lives in his own reality in which he is unique and special, he also believes that can get away with anything, including murder. Sadly, that belief is not entirely unfounded: he has... https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278284552679624705
"Since a narcissist lives in his own reality in which he is unique and special, he also believes that can get away with anything, including murder. Sadly, that belief is not entirely unfounded: he has... https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278284552679624705
...conned, used, and abused so many people so many times that this fact is an indication of his own superiority and invincibility to him. He sees himself above moral concerns and often above the law. The rules of decent and even legal conduct may not apply to him."
"Living in a reality of his own making, a narcissist is unconcerned with truth or objectivity. Honesty and consistency are for mere mortals or losers; he is not bound by them in any way. What is more, he will glibly manage to convince you that he is correct in whatever opinion...
...he is voicing at the moment. Those who live with a narcissist are prone to fall for his reality distortions and may have difficulties after a while telling truth from fiction, even as it pertains to their own perceptions, feelings, and thoughts." https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-narcissist-251ec901dae7
"A narcissist’s speech is vague, impressionistic, light on facts, and often contradictory. No matter the subject, however, his words are almost always seasoned with grandiosity, resentment, and sometimes sadism.
He makes up his arguments, such as they are, as he goes, without any regard for truth or consistency, but it is not really that he lies. Just as he is not constrained by values, he is not hampered by facts and figures, so he creates his own to suit his needs at the moment.
It is not, however, as though his understanding of himself and the world is entirely fact-free. There are three major facts around which his whole reality is organized:
1. I am great.
2. People unfairly malign me.
3. I will show them (they will pay).
1. I am great.
2. People unfairly malign me.
3. I will show them (they will pay).
Those are not just beliefs — they are facts etched deep in his psyche, and they evoke corresponding emotional states of
1. grandiose pride,
2. sense of victimhood and resentment,
3. desire for revenge,
all of which form the core of his sense of self and motivate his actions.
1. grandiose pride,
2. sense of victimhood and resentment,
3. desire for revenge,
all of which form the core of his sense of self and motivate his actions.
That desire for revenge's as much payback for his real & imagined humiliations, as it's a yearning to assert his ultimate domination over others. Before it manifests itself on a grand scale (should he be allowed to wield so much power), it may be observed in his everyday actions.
He creates discord wherever he goes by inflaming the worst impulses in others and watching the results of such manipulation, while he gloats and revels in his power evidenced in having others do his bidding.
He cannot help being destructive, as there are no brakes, imposed by conscience, on his rapacious primitive drives.
This lack of brakes endows him with a kind of perverse Midas touch: he destroys everything he comes in contact with--relationships, organizations, countries.
This lack of brakes endows him with a kind of perverse Midas touch: he destroys everything he comes in contact with--relationships, organizations, countries.
He doesn't create anything of value; he's either indifferent or hostile to expressions of values in the material world. He may annihilate such expressions — books, works of art, or cherished public spaces — out of spite. Like the Wilde’s cynic, he knows the price of everything...
...and the value of nothing — and he is proud of it.
His compulsion to dazzle and to erect ever greater monuments to his own glory, whether in the form of bombastic poetry or shiny palaces, satisfies his grandiosity; but it is also a way to divert attention, his own and others, from the destruction he sows around him."
