Personality Disorders And Crackpot Theories

We see people creating a viciously competitive culture, in which one has to be a jerk in order to get ahead. Then these same people howl sociopath or narcissist when someone acts according to its injunctions.

First we see it claimed that people who have feelings are weak. Then we see it claimed that people who do not have the same feelings as oneself are narcissists and sociopaths. This level of hypocrisy must not have been easy to achieve. Unfortunately it is just this: Hypocrisy.

To the people who howl about narcissists and sociopaths: Do you have empathy for these people? And if you do not, how can you claim that they are sociopaths and narcissists and that you aren't?

An instructive film toward that effect was Cape Fear. The lawyer who buried a case was seen as a good person; the man whose case he buried was portrayed as a fiend. Extreme amounts of compassion were afforded the lawyer, whereas the client was portrayed as a monster. How does this work? You practice compassion, you have to extend it to everyone. And if you do not, then you are no better than the psycho killer.

So now we see some people being portrayed as evil and only capable of evil whatever they do. This militates against most basic reason. Anything human is capable of choice; and anything capable of choice is capable of rightful choice. This includes – sociopaths, narcissists, “perverts,” what have you.

So you are weak and stupid if you have feelings, and you are a monster if your feelings are different from people around you. Once again, this level of hypocrisy must not have been easy to achieve.

It is time that more people see through this hypocrisy and lay a claim on actual reality, whether or not it is supported by crackpot theories.