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noasaservice | 3 years ago

Its always vogue to call out public/popular humans for diseases. Not the best look.

Now, capitalism... now that causes a whole host of problems. If a corporation were a real human, it would be diagnosed as a sociopath. Noam Chomsky did a great work with "The Corporation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5hEiANG4Uk

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synu|3 years ago

It’s true, similarly people self-diagnosing their parents or other family members and friends as narcissists seems to be a quite common and probably unhealthy recent trend as well.

In this case though I wasn’t saying the people calling this leadership are narcissists, but I do think it’s a sign they are confused that the behaviours they are calling leadership are also symptoms of a narcissistic meltdown.

noasaservice|3 years ago

Perhaps... But I would think that living with someone (even if not by choice for the first 18 years of your life) gives you a much deeper understanding than watching some celeb online and making snap judgements there.

And in my case, all my siblings have deemed that our mother is indeed a narcissist. We're all no-contact with her. We're not docs, so med diagnosis is off the table... But you can definitely be a narcissist without being diagnosed with NPD.

Bubble_Pop_22|3 years ago

> Its always vogue to call out public/popular humans for diseases. Not the best look.

Why? Because they still have a decent amount of support and don’t want to alienate their fans?

By 1936 it was clear that Hitler was a crazy narcissist. If people don’t speak out due to fear it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because everyone thinks the number of people supporting the narcissist is so much bigger than it actually is.

The best antidote against a narcissist is having the largest possible amount of people spending time with them 1:1 or in the same building anyway.

npteljes|3 years ago

>Why?

Because by itself it's just an ad hominem, just an attack against someone's character, with no other substance. It's not better than to point a finger and yell "Ur dumb!".