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Quoting the article:
Posted by nobojo on Aug 15, 2006 at 2:24 AM
Some of these people are beyond narcissism—they are sociopaths.
I highly recommend an interview with Martha Stout, PhD, author of “The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus The Rest of Us ” (Broadway Books, 2005).
Be sure to read the section titled: “13 Rules for Dealing with Sociopaths in Everyday Life”—unfortunately, I hadn’t seen this list at the time I really needed it a couple of years ago.
I’ll try to place the URL here as a link.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=1097
If the link is broken, go to
http://www.bookbrowse.com/
and search the author interviews for Martha Stout ...
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/
full/index.cfm?author_number=1097
For the URL immediately above this line, you’ll need to copy and paste it back together for it to work.
Posted by psstwife on Aug 15, 2006 at 9:39 AM
Can countries be narcissistic?
I’m pretty certain my own country would hit the 5/9 mark straight away. How would yours measure up?
Posted by Kuya on Aug 16, 2006 at 1:19 AM
However correct this article is in its premises (and I would agree that many in our culture are infected with narcissism) its solution in collectivism is exactly the wrong course to take. Collectivism, which disregards the importance of the individual, leads directly to narcissitic personalities gaining control of the political machinery. It often ends in mass murder. Obvious examples that come to mind are the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and Communist China. All fell under the control of Narcissitic personalities who, convinced they knew the way to a better society, committed mass murders on a huge scale. We don’t need any more such experiments in utopianism.
Posted by chopper on Aug 16, 2006 at 5:46 PM
Granted, totalitarianisms are to be avoided. On the other hand, there is nothing more utopian than unfettered, “free-market” capitalism, a la Randian ideology. As in the U.S. today this concentration and centralisation of wealth and power merely devolves into a state-capitalist oligarchy. As has been pointed out, this is simply “socialism for the rich”.
Posted by gha on Aug 24, 2006 at 8:12 AM
“Granted, totalitarianisms are to be avoided. On the other hand, there is nothing more utopian than unfettered,
Posted by chopper on Aug 28, 2006 at 2:50 PM
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Quoting the article:
Some of these people are beyond narcissism—they are sociopaths.
I highly recommend an interview with Martha Stout, PhD, author of “The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus The Rest of Us ” (Broadway Books, 2005).
Be sure to read the section titled: “13 Rules for Dealing with Sociopaths in Everyday Life”—unfortunately, I hadn’t seen this list at the time I really needed it a couple of years ago.
I’ll try to place the URL here as a link.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=1097
If the link is broken, go to
http://www.bookbrowse.com/
and search the author interviews for Martha Stout ...
http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/
full/index.cfm?author_number=1097
For the URL immediately above this line, you’ll need to copy and paste it back together for it to work.
Can countries be narcissistic?
I’m pretty certain my own country would hit the 5/9 mark straight away. How would yours measure up?
However correct this article is in its premises (and I would agree that many in our culture are infected with narcissism) its solution in collectivism is exactly the wrong course to take. Collectivism, which disregards the importance of the individual, leads directly to narcissitic personalities gaining control of the political machinery. It often ends in mass murder. Obvious examples that come to mind are the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and Communist China. All fell under the control of Narcissitic personalities who, convinced they knew the way to a better society, committed mass murders on a huge scale. We don’t need any more such experiments in utopianism.
Granted, totalitarianisms are to be avoided. On the other hand, there is nothing more utopian than unfettered, “free-market” capitalism, a la Randian ideology. As in the U.S. today this concentration and centralisation of wealth and power merely devolves into a state-capitalist oligarchy. As has been pointed out, this is simply “socialism for the rich”.
“Granted, totalitarianisms are to be avoided. On the other hand, there is nothing more utopian than unfettered,
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