Posted on 02/08/2015 7:13:51 AM PST by rktman
In President Me, Adam Carolla takes the pulse of the social contract, a pulse that is slackening. Narcissism is the sapping beast.
Carolla sees an insidious minority that has turned out to be “assholes.” Predictably, the trait has infiltrated what is now known anachronistically as “the fabric of society.”
The death of God, absent fathers, subversive pop culture, unassimilated immigration, and infantilizing, cradle/grave government all factor as threats to destroy from within America’s exceptionalist sovereignty.
Carolla’s admonition is about a stratum of quasi-pathological narcissism breeding within our culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Narcissism is popularly understood to be psychological term. Obama’s offensive is spiritual.
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His offense is ultimately spiritual. His character infects everything he touches. At root he is homosexual, thus, narcissistic. That is, his entire world view rotates around himself. Our culture is profoundly sick to have deliberately and willfully selected such a deeply disturbed person as its leader.
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The problem I have with this important info is: Most of the people who need to understand what Adam is talking about .. are at -0- when it comes to knowing most of the words he uses.
Adam needs to bring it down to the level of the youth today (made stupid by the left’s control over our schools), and then he might begin to see some results.
I just requested the book from the library.
It's from the same observation about Clinton's Sec of State during the Bosnia War.
We live in an age where there's not. one. patriot. in Washington.
From “Malignant Self Love-Narcissism Revisited” by Dr. Sam Vaknin:
“The narcissist:
Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates accomplishments, talents, skills, contacts, and personality traits to the point of lying, demands to be recognised as superior without commensurate achievements);
Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion;
Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions);
Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation – or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (Narcissistic Supply);
Feels entitled. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her unreasonable expectations for special and favourable priority treatment;
Is “interpersonally exploitative”, i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends;
Devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with, acknowledge, or accept the feelings, needs, preferences, priorities, and choices of others;
Constantly envious of others and seeks to hurt or destroy the objects of his or her frustration. Suffers from persecutory (paranoid) delusions as he or she believes that they feel the same about him or her and are likely to act similarly;
Behaves arrogantly and haughtily. Feels superior, omnipotent, omniscient, invincible, immune, “above the law”, and omnipresent (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy.
Narcissism is a defense mechanism whose role is to deflect hurt and trauma from the victim’s “True Self” into a “False Self” which is omnipotent, invulnerable, and omniscient. This False Self is then used by the narcissist to garner narcissistic supply from his human environment.
Narcissistic supply is any form of attention, both positive and negative and it is instrumental in the regulation of the narcissist’s labile sense of self-worth.
Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement. Subject to negative input, real or imagined, even to a mild rebuke, a constructive suggestion, or an offer to help, they feel injured, humiliated and empty and they react with disdain (devaluation), rage, and defiance.”
Gramps always said: “If the shoe fits...”
I got Corolla’s book from the library and brought it on a trip to read. It is really good, especially if you are a “bootstraps” sort of person. http://www.amazon.com/Taco-Bell-Material-Adam-Carolla/dp/0307888886
But there is so much vulgarity, sexual and otherwise, that I could not reasonably pass it along to the young people I wanted so much to read it....and trust me, I’m no prude.
I keep hoping that his editors come out with a PG-13 version of it, because it is worthwhile for young people (and the rest of us) to read.
No, 16 million. And we all know it's not just 1%.
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