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Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Left
There is one thing that really amazes me — it’s not corporate America’s top-down lock-step craziness, not Trump’s political and legal persecutions, not Global Warming, nor cancellation or de-banking; not the popular approval of restricting freedom of speech, the so-called Intelligence Community’s anti-American machinations, or even those who propose the propriety and support the legality of killing babies at or after the moment of birth. The one thing that truly amazes me — that it could ever happen — is that people actually say and expect people to take them seriously that … a man with a penis can be a woman, and the word “woman” can no longer be defined. And that this is accepted by a large portion of everyday Americans. The irrationality and the popularity of this truly blows my mind.
The closest I’ve come to any understanding of this is that current Leftist extremism is not a Marxist philosophy or a religion; it is a pathology. Mass Formation seems to me to be too vague; and things like, say, Munchausens-by-Proxy seem too specific. But the idea of bad parenting does seem to have something to do with it and seems to have an increasingly strong current cultural presence.
Recently, I saw an episode of DarkHorse. On it, guest Joshua Slocum describes the “Cluster B World” we’re now living in. I think this makes the most sense. It is transmissible, it is delusional, it is malicious, it involves revenge and acting out, and it is already prevalent in society.
In 2008 I read an article by Sam Vaknin, a professor of psychology who in his article wrote that he was the world’s greatest authority on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). That he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder himself was added; with credentials like that I believed him — how could I go wrong? Anyway, he said that Obama had NPD, and that it was very dangerous to have a president with this disorder. Vaknin further suggested that every candidate should have mandatory psychological screening.
So, back then I read up on NPD. It supposedly has a prevalence of 1 out of 17 people in the US. That’s a lot. I’ve noticed symptoms of this disorder in a few people I knew, and have read sporadically about it, sociopathies generally, and about Cluster B disorders in particular ever since. And though there is no real understanding of what causes most mental illnesses — and this will possibly be controversial — it seems to me that at least Cluster B and C sociopathies are both created and generational, but are neither genetic nor gestational.
They are akin to PTSD, but for toddlers: the result of great stresses in the family environment. These personality disorders or personality malformations are learned. In short, they are created. They are the result of dangerously dysfunctional parenting in early childhood development. This is why sociopaths — or at least NPD sufferers — are not distributed evenly through the population. They are often clustered, the children of demanding, controlling, or sociopathic parents. I am not an expert, and can’t argue this point, but I do know off the top of my head, six sociopaths coming from two different families. And I have seen this pattern in others whom I know less well.
It seems to me that virtually every behavioral trait in every Cluster B sociopathy is represented in the progressive Left’s followers. “Gaslighting,” a term in much use today in a political context, was in common use then in 2008 for a major behavior of people with NPD. I encountered the word “triangulation” as a common behavior of NPDs, which essentially means to divide and conquer or to pit one against another — another tactic used on a grand scale by the Left. The purpose of triangulation is to create discord — even chaos — in order to maintain control of others and to divert their interest and energies away from the one seeking to control them.
And NPDs lie so far as to distort reality; they invert reality: bad is good, good is bad. The Left does the same: Trump is an existential threat to the Constitution, though Biden has done more to subvert the Constitution than anyone, and yet is a protector of the republic. And a man is a woman. And some boys live life better after castration. And a young girl needs her breasts cut off to feel that she fits in.
People with NPD want control, and they see people not as individuals or even people but as sources of the approval they want: for NPDs, admiration; for politicians, votes.
NPDs create false narratives and false roles for people, insisting that others play the roles and fit the narrative they have created. And in this way, they also insist people follow their roles to further pit people against one another.
Some are Golden, some are Scapegoats, and everyone else is an approving audience or perhaps an accomplice. If you’re Black you must vote for Biden. If you’re gay, you must support trans-something. If you are from certain minorities you can pillage and burn and murder, and that’s okay. And if you are an intruder you get gifts and the best seat at the table.
And if you object, and don’t go along with the narrative, then you’re definitely the Scapegoat.
It all fits.
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There are essentially 3 separate groups of transexuals.
A tiny, steady number of little children, mainly boys. The vast majority of whom if left alone to figure things out will eventually identify as homosexual. Narcissistic moms are the greatest danger to these kids. they end up mutilated.
Teen age girls, the fastest growing cohort with several thousand percent growth, who suffer from a social contagion.
Teen girls have always been the most prone to these things. They enter puberty sooner, are uncomfortable with their bodies and what is happening to them feel vulnerable and thus prone to manias like bulimia, anorexia, cutting and in other cultures “demonic possession”.
Finally a growing group of older men who have autogynephilia, get sexual pleasure from the idea that they are a woman. It’s a paraphilia and this is why they get incensed if you refuse to play the game with them.
I assume that future generations will look back in horror of the things done to teenage girls today. But I am not confident in that assumption. These horrors are being led by today’s medical associations. The last decade has been shameful for the medical/psychological professions. This “gender-mania” era is a part of today’s neo-Maoism.
You only posted this because you want to date Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
(Seriously, good post.)
Who is this we? America, for example, is often referred to as multi-cultural. Is Cluster B prevalent in a particular cultural subset? Does it appear significantly in all cultures or just in what we call Western European?
I pose these questions without having viewed the complete podcast video provided.
Kozak, that’s a pretty interesting graphic. However, those children aren’t the ones who have any mental disorder. But this foisting of trans-sexuality upon toddlers is a perfect example, the tip of the iceberg, of a more general insanity. I was amazed at the public acceptance of something that is obviously not true. Truly this is the behavior of the sociopath: gaslighting and enforcing roles onto others for one’s own egotistical reasons.
But the post wasn’t intended to be about trans-anything, it was about those people who believe and advocate such behaviors, among others.
But saying any man can be a true woman is so fundamentally false that the population would have to have some serious derangement to believe it. And, yes, it seems like pubescent and adolescent girls are most susceptible to accepting this craziness, but what of their mothers? And sure, celebrities are highly narcissistic, but that’s not the same as sociopathic. But do you think that there is any other explanation other than sociopathy for mothers doing to their children what these celebrities are doing?
And again, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
I guess what I’m getting at in the post is that the patterns of behavior of the Left are identical to the patterns present in some types of sociopaths; controlling, histrionic shouting, gaslighting, callous and nearly conscienceless, and advocating mutilation for their own egotistical pleasure is sadistic. Creating and enforcing false roles for others to follow for your own benefit is part of the sociopath’s pattern, too.
I guess I accidentally cut out the part where I wrote that people (sociopaths) assign groups like women, Hispanics, Blacks, gays, etc. with specific characters and behaviors and force them to play out their roles, and they favor them, while turning other groups into a Scapegoat group. This is pretty classic NPD.
Anyway, it’s more about something that Joshua Slocum and Bret Weinstein said, that the behaviors of Cluster B sociopaths have entered the general culture. And I think this is the best explanation for why half of America is that way it is.
We being the US culture itself has become Cluster B sociopathic.
I had to look up the word paraphilia, but what I learned doesn’t help me understand the belligerent anger. I’m not sure I want to understand, either.
And no, I don’t believe that any ethnic group or anything HAS Cluster B sociopathy, though they may be taught to be so. And I don’t know enough about sociopathy around the world to say anything about it. But literature warns that defining sociopathy in any other culture is likely significantly different than in the US culture.
So we need to look at cases within families with multiple children to see how this actually works, right? Is there a prevalence where there is only a single child or do we even know that as yet? How about IQ? Are we getting more of this from Ivy League schools?
It wasn’t long ago You couldn’t go a day without seeing a commercial pleading for help to stop Female Genital Mutilation in Africa.
Now that I think about, I haven’t see it lately.
I’m not a psychologist and there is much disagreement about the nature of personality disorders. I can’t answer your questions specifically, but a description (paraphrasing) is that personality disorders are not “affective” or emotional illnesses, but defects in the structure if you will of the character and personality of the individual himself. People with these disorders have a basic lack of some healthy personality traits like altruism and empathy and a superabundance of other normally healthy traits like risk-taking. And some show a definite presence of negative traits such as narcissism, manipulativeness, consciencelessness, and sadism. Fundamentally, it is generally accepted that NPDs have very low esteem and attempt to compensate for this by being grandiose and demanding admiration from others (even being perceived as suffering nobly counts).
And they are not so much what a person thinks as how they think, and once developed this is a set essentially for life, and the disorders are considered incurable by either drugs or psychotherapy (except only very rare and unique — and apparently hypothetical — circumstances). My contention is that at least cluster B is most likely created by family experiences during early childhood development and thus is “transmissible” by emulation and training. I know of only-children who were NPDs and from experience and reading blogs of people’s histories, family size does not seem to matter.
Frankly, like the “psychopath” (no longer a DSM diagnosis), this is not a matter of intelligence, and NPDs actually have a high “life success” rate. And if I remember correctly they succeed in business and climb the corporate ladder fairly well. And I would imagine that we get a reasonable amount from top-flight schools.
I heard an insightful talk by a family therapist who said that in his practice, the one who is acting out is often not the one who’s crazy. That is consonant with the theme of Scott Peck’s People of the Lie in which he points out how family life gets horribly distorted to protect some falsehood, some false version of things even to the point of personal destruction of the most vulnerable and most sane.
It is a good thing that that baby from Krypton was raised by the wise and virtuous Jonathan and Martha Kent and not some trendy narcissists demanding fealty to some bogus version of themselves. And that his formal higher education was prepared and presented by the highly ethical and highly learned Jor-El thus allowing Clark to reach his full potential in the context of service to truth, justice, and the American Way without a single diagnosable condition in the whole DSM. Imagine the global damage of a narcissistic, Cluster-whatever super sociopath whose fortress of solitude immersed him in woke doctrines.
And instead of a sociopathic super individual, we have unhappy multitudes who grieve that they lack the superpower to wreak vengeance on society.
I’m often reminded that the Salem witch panic was started by a group of teen girls.
Throw in some Dunning-Kruger and you’ve got a very dangerous, potent mix.
This is the second virtually perfect thing I’ve read on Ricochet today.
We should have a million paid members.
Perhaps enabling acts are what should be avoided both by individuals within families and by those elected by the people to represent them. This post was opened with a statement about something that amazed the author. Something that amazes me is the insight and foresight of the founders of the American republic. Our elected representatives along the way have initiated several acts to undo our Constitutional republic and it is working. Those I call enabling actions. I’ve mentioned many of them in other posts and comments. One on the horizon and close to enactment is digital currency.
We are seeing similar enabling processes allowing and encouraging a proliferation of individual behaviors that are detrimental to the lives of people willing to live with normal responsibilities.
It has taken a succession of enabling acts over more than a century to place our American republic in a situation where it could be lost, but we face that prospect today.
Various enabling acts and elections of certain individuals to positions in which they could commit official acts that were enabling of behaviors that contribute to the destruction of the republic have gone unchallenged as well.
Now is the time for a stand.
The medical field is looking for new revenue streams.
I suspect that she is past her sell-by date.
Once you accept that homosexuality is normal, then everything sexual is negotiable.
Not everything that is “normal” can be accepted as right and proper.
If we screened every political candidate for NPD, who would be left? Mitch Daniels?
Yes, I didn’t much get into the assigned roles within the NPD’s social structure, but it seems to me that the Scapegoat usually turns out the mentally healthiest, I suppose because he is the one singled out for abuse and he had the most to gain by pointing out the folly of it all. And this further makes him look like the black sheep.
And I do remember a documentary on SNL speculating what would have happened if Superman had landed in pre-war nazi Germany instead of the US. It was pretty funny and it pointed out just what you say.
Interesting parallel. The thing about dealing with NPDs and their family is that just about the only thing to bring relief is breaking off ALL contact. That would be like the national divorce people have been talking about, which in itself seems impossible and unworkable to me.
On the other hand, and on the good side is, I’m not sure whether everyone who displays NPD culturally can actually have NPD but may merely be expressing themselves in the culturally approved way, which happens no to be in that NPD style. If this is the case, then a healthy culture should be restorable.
On the other side, so many people seem to be pushing, and accepting, the craziness that a man is really a woman that I can’t see them NOT being thoroughly and incurably crazy.
the only parallel is in the result which is, in both the individual and the society, basically do whatever you want and we will support you.
Within a family environment this is frequently from compassion and most often from mothers, I’m sure with fathers going along to get along.
On a societal level, i.e. what we are seeing in the culture, it comes as a deliberate part of the NPD of the leaders because it serves Leftist and NPD objectives for controlling power. They are incurably crazy as far as I can tell.
Oh absolutely. Maybe one has gender dysphoria, but again if left alone the vast majority figure it out. The graphic was to highlight the narcissistic mothers of these kids. Having a Trans Child the new Hollywood chic accessory .
That slope was really slippery wasn’t it?
I am encouraged that even Gay people are repulsed by the sexualization and brainwashing of children and are pushing back as in “ Gays Against Groomers“
Yes, I agree with the bolded part.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at, and I think we may be talking about two different things. I was focusing on OB’s: he points out how family life gets horribly distorted to protect some falsehood, some false version of things even to the point of personal destruction of the most vulnerable and most sane.
And to your: Something that amazes me is the insight and foresight of the founders of the American republic.
So I was focusing on the unjustly injured party, the Scapegoat, which can correspond to the group of normal Americans who object to the management and control of the federal government and the PTB, and how they can effectively deal with it; and how the Framers might have possibly foreseen this and provided a remedy.
Taking NPD as only a metaphor or guide (I don’t believe that because the culture is pathologically narcissistic that all affected individuals are pathologically narcissistic), in this case, the truly offended party of NPD (the sane public) has little recourse other than to separate.
Ono of my favorite Sci Fi writers, Robert Heinlein noticed this in the late 1950s and his “Future History” series had a
period of US history denoted as ” The Crazy Years”. Later novels from the 1970’s were even darker and envisioned the collapse of our cities into “AA’s”, Abandoned Areas that the US government basically did not govern and were left to themselves.
We are a sick sick society. I don’t see any obvious way out.
Jordan Peterson comments on a family where the mother, a Disney executive claims 2 of her kids are trans and pansexual… ( now you know why Disney has become what it is.)