Wow; that is surprising; but maybe now that I think about it not so surprising. Gee, do you mean like Mika Brez. and Joe Scarborough maybe? People resist knowledge of DP/PPP I suppose, because such people are unfathomable, until (in my case anyway) I became the target. I admit I had long been a witness, albeit not fully in the picture. All my adult life I have tried to understand psychopathy and Cluster-B types (The Executioner's Song; Johnny Depp/ Amber Heard; all sorts of true crime accounts; Shakespeare's villains). It just does not quite sink in. I've got my copy of Lobaczewski thanks to you and am grateful to be working my way through old posts here.
In the category of "Forces, coerces, and bullies", i would add the use of legal force, or lawfare - I'm thinking vaccine mandates (writing from Canada here).
"Exploits" is what we call special knowledge of software vulnerabilities and the techniques to take advantage of them. It appears that PPPs developed such skills long before silicon computation. I sometimes wonder whether they scaled up such exploits to found religions.
Cults definitely, although the line between a cult and a religion is hard to draw. But if a system of thought or ideology has sustained entire human communities, children, adults and elders through all the stages of life and over many generations it is very difficult to see how it can be called pathological.
One key element here could be, can it survive the death of its founder?
Jim Jones' People's Temple would be a classic example of this. That mass murder / suicide was the narcissistic demand that nothing would survive him.
If it's an exploitative system of manipulation and confusion it should collapse when the pathological personality is removed. However if it has a deep connection to the nature of reality and the needs of the human community it could survive and prosper.
"your average Christian church" is not the sort of case I was thinking of. I'm referring to where the worldview, teachings and behavior of the overall cult, relative to the rest of the world, appear to mirror that of a PPP relative to its victims. Imagine a cult of this nature that is able to continue across the generations, accumulating "special psychological knowledge", compounding wealth across generations, refining its manipulative techniques...
Excellent article thank you. I’m seeing many politicians fitting this profile, I believe Justin Trudeau is not normal, his narcissism is incredible to behold, incomprehensible, bizarre…and he always always deflects and never ever answers a straightforward question but waxes eloquently about an entirely different topic of his choosing instead.He is completely delusional and doesn’t give a damn about our country nor our people only his ideologies matter to him and he covets his power as prime minister. Ugh, he is enjoying destroying our country and he lies about everything, not honest or accountable for anything pretending he is our biggest benefactor while shoving a knife in our back.
Here's an interesting case of a man who is a habitual liar. https://youtu.be/zxITnsZ85o4 Not knowing the background and only seeing the first ten minutes, it looks like a predator and a habitual liar on his back heels. As I understand it, his lawyers advised against going on the stand.
I find it interesting because I just met a self-described sociopath and another young man who is a gang member. [Don't ask ;-(], You can tell this politician is a man accustomed to being a habitual liar. My question is about what age this sort of behavior begins.
I will have to read Łobaczewski's masterpiece again, but these personality traits, although clinically defined at some point, probably arise prior to the presumption they are not... guilty or culpable at the onset. Subclinical because of a matter of medical decision rather than a realistic estimation of when the indicators arise.
I watched a bunch of that video. Yeah, sure looks like it! I think that behavior starts to manifest very early. Lobaczewski and Mitchell say from a very young age.
Great article
As usual...
A., you brought me here from bad cattitude...the list of predatory tactics is so on the money I had to read it in several sittings. Beyond helpful!
Wow; that is surprising; but maybe now that I think about it not so surprising. Gee, do you mean like Mika Brez. and Joe Scarborough maybe? People resist knowledge of DP/PPP I suppose, because such people are unfathomable, until (in my case anyway) I became the target. I admit I had long been a witness, albeit not fully in the picture. All my adult life I have tried to understand psychopathy and Cluster-B types (The Executioner's Song; Johnny Depp/ Amber Heard; all sorts of true crime accounts; Shakespeare's villains). It just does not quite sink in. I've got my copy of Lobaczewski thanks to you and am grateful to be working my way through old posts here.
Jussie Smollet endorses Kamala for President
In the category of "Forces, coerces, and bullies", i would add the use of legal force, or lawfare - I'm thinking vaccine mandates (writing from Canada here).
"Exploits" is what we call special knowledge of software vulnerabilities and the techniques to take advantage of them. It appears that PPPs developed such skills long before silicon computation. I sometimes wonder whether they scaled up such exploits to found religions.
Cults definitely, although the line between a cult and a religion is hard to draw. But if a system of thought or ideology has sustained entire human communities, children, adults and elders through all the stages of life and over many generations it is very difficult to see how it can be called pathological.
One key element here could be, can it survive the death of its founder?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
Jim Jones' People's Temple would be a classic example of this. That mass murder / suicide was the narcissistic demand that nothing would survive him.
If it's an exploitative system of manipulation and confusion it should collapse when the pathological personality is removed. However if it has a deep connection to the nature of reality and the needs of the human community it could survive and prosper.
"your average Christian church" is not the sort of case I was thinking of. I'm referring to where the worldview, teachings and behavior of the overall cult, relative to the rest of the world, appear to mirror that of a PPP relative to its victims. Imagine a cult of this nature that is able to continue across the generations, accumulating "special psychological knowledge", compounding wealth across generations, refining its manipulative techniques...
Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate 1997
Excellent article thank you. I’m seeing many politicians fitting this profile, I believe Justin Trudeau is not normal, his narcissism is incredible to behold, incomprehensible, bizarre…and he always always deflects and never ever answers a straightforward question but waxes eloquently about an entirely different topic of his choosing instead.He is completely delusional and doesn’t give a damn about our country nor our people only his ideologies matter to him and he covets his power as prime minister. Ugh, he is enjoying destroying our country and he lies about everything, not honest or accountable for anything pretending he is our biggest benefactor while shoving a knife in our back.
Here's an interesting case of a man who is a habitual liar. https://youtu.be/zxITnsZ85o4 Not knowing the background and only seeing the first ten minutes, it looks like a predator and a habitual liar on his back heels. As I understand it, his lawyers advised against going on the stand.
I find it interesting because I just met a self-described sociopath and another young man who is a gang member. [Don't ask ;-(], You can tell this politician is a man accustomed to being a habitual liar. My question is about what age this sort of behavior begins.
I will have to read Łobaczewski's masterpiece again, but these personality traits, although clinically defined at some point, probably arise prior to the presumption they are not... guilty or culpable at the onset. Subclinical because of a matter of medical decision rather than a realistic estimation of when the indicators arise.
I watched a bunch of that video. Yeah, sure looks like it! I think that behavior starts to manifest very early. Lobaczewski and Mitchell say from a very young age.
But this is what the ADL is doing...
So interesting! Now I will see dark personalities every where.
I think this would be a variation on “Capitalises on data, monitors, stalks.”
I think they’re known as ‘fact checkers’, A. Trolling and trolling for wrongthink…listening in, as it were.