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]]> By: MonicaHess http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293552 MonicaHess Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:41:48 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293552 The book, <strong>"</strong><em></em><strong>Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend"</strong>, by Barbara Oakley, makes so much of this clear.  We're in for a rough time with this one.  The book, “Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend”, by Barbara Oakley, makes so much of this clear.  We’re in for a rough time with this one. 

]]> By: Patience http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293103 Patience Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:18:14 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293103 Thank you for this essay Craig.  For me, it's easy to see the POTUS is a narcissistic personality.  What I don't understand is why <em>some</em> people bitterly cling to The Myth. I can understand an unwillingness to admit to faulty judgement, or a reluctance to admit having been duped.  I can understand partisanship.  I can understand white guilt.  But is that <em>all</em> that's at play? What I fear is that we live in an age where fiction has become all-too comforting, and that some people are so enured to vicarious pleasure and virtual reality that what's true and real is just too boring or unpleasant for them to countenance.  They <em>want, </em>maybe even <em>need</em> fairy tales. What do psychologists have to say about people who fall prey to narcissists?  Thank you for this essay Craig.  For me, it’s easy to see the POTUS is a narcissistic personality.  What I don’t understand is why some people bitterly cling to The Myth.

I can understand an unwillingness to admit to faulty judgement, or a reluctance to admit having been duped.  I can understand partisanship.  I can understand white guilt.  But is that all that’s at play?

What I fear is that we live in an age where fiction has become all-too comforting, and that some people are so enured to vicarious pleasure and virtual reality that what’s true and real is just too boring or unpleasant for them to countenance.  They want, maybe even need fairy tales.

What do psychologists have to say about people who fall prey to narcissists? 

]]> By: Clara http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293078 Clara Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:01:46 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293078 Great piece and interesting read.  Thank you, Craig.  Out of that bunch of docs in the Doctors for America group, wonder how many are psychiatrists?  Can't imagine one actually supporting The 'teched' One. Great piece and interesting read.  Thank you, Craig.  Out of that bunch of docs in the Doctors for America group, wonder how many are psychiatrists?  Can’t imagine one actually supporting The ‘teched’ One.

]]> By: tango http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293060 tango Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:47:50 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293060 As does Obama. At least Sarah Palin hasn't (but I'm sure the Bots say give her time) done a spot for George Lopez or had her spouse appear on The Food Networks Iron Chef.  Maybe if Todd Palin does, he can present the secret ingredient - Alaskan Moose! As does Obama. At least Sarah Palin hasn’t (but I’m sure the Bots say give her time) done a spot for George Lopez or had her spouse appear on The Food Networks Iron Chef.  Maybe if Todd Palin does, he can present the secret ingredient - Alaskan Moose!

]]> By: Ferd Berfle http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293030 Ferd Berfle Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:08:08 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293030 My ex was disgnosed as an NPD. I tried for 10 years but gave it up when I started to think I was crazy and maybe she was sane. These people really are sociopaths (as stated by Craig) and I stay as far away from them as I can. My ex was disgnosed as an NPD. I tried for 10 years but gave it up when I started to think I was crazy and maybe she was sane. These people really are sociopaths (as stated by Craig) and I stay as far away from them as I can.

]]> By: Ferd Berfle http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293026 Ferd Berfle Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:03:15 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293026 Damn fine essay Craig. You've hit the ball out of the park with this one. Thanks for stating in words what I've felt ever since I first saw that flimflam man. Damn fine essay Craig. You’ve hit the ball out of the park with this one. Thanks for stating in words what I’ve felt ever since I first saw that flimflam man.

]]> By: catfsh http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293025 catfsh Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:59:22 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293025 "I spent several of the first years of our marriage questioning where I went wrong, what I didn't get, how my thinking must be messed up, etc. because I just didn't always think he was right in his thinking.    It was a long road from questioning myself to trusting my reactions to his total self-absorption and lack of empathy for anyone." Imagine if you had a YouTube record of everything your N.P.D. friend said. Would have saved you a few years. “I spent several of the first years of our marriage questioning where I went wrong, what I didn’t get, how my thinking must be messed up, etc. because I just didn’t always think he was right in his thinking.    It was a long road from questioning myself to trusting my reactions to his total self-absorption and lack of empathy for anyone.”

Imagine if you had a YouTube record of everything your N.P.D. friend said. Would have saved you a few years.

]]> By: catfsh http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293022 catfsh Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:56:24 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293022 I too know somebody who is N.P.D. though to her credit, she is capable of empathy. But she can be crazy-making, changing little facts all over the place so you exhaust yourself trying to iron out these little wrinkles of lies. That must be what Obama does to his inner-circle - he inflicts his crazy-making little lies on them, they constantly question themselves and exhaust themselves trying to prove the green door is in fact green not red.  Obama seems to have a debilitating empathy deficit - he cannot see how much people hate this health insurance expansion bill and he's having to ask all these incumbant Democrats to not run for re-election. Yet he soldiers on, offering to "help" other Dem incumbents campaign, not realizing these Dems' poll numbers are sagging because of the health insurance bailout bill. I too know somebody who is N.P.D. though to her credit, she is capable of empathy. But she can be crazy-making, changing little facts all over the place so you exhaust yourself trying to iron out these little wrinkles of lies. That must be what Obama does to his inner-circle – he inflicts his crazy-making little lies on them, they constantly question themselves and exhaust themselves trying to prove the green door is in fact green not red. 

Obama seems to have a debilitating empathy deficit – he cannot see how much people hate this health insurance expansion bill and he’s having to ask all these incumbant Democrats to not run for re-election. Yet he soldiers on, offering to “help” other Dem incumbents campaign, not realizing these Dems’ poll numbers are sagging because of the health insurance bailout bill.

]]> By: SHV http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293020 SHV Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:52:38 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293020  “narcissistic, <i>antisocial </i>sock puppet” ******* I don't buy the "sock puppet" part.  Obama uses people for his personal and political goals.  He advances the Insurance, Bankster, etc, agena for the simple reason; that's where the money was/is.  I quarantee, if the Drug Companies, Health Insurance companies, etc. had not played their assigned roles in passing "Historic" legislation; Obama would have made it very unpleasant for them.  “narcissistic, antisocial sock puppet”
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I don’t buy the “sock puppet” part.  Obama uses people for his personal and political goals.  He advances the Insurance, Bankster, etc, agena for the simple reason; that’s where the money was/is.  I quarantee, if the Drug Companies, Health Insurance companies, etc. had not played their assigned roles in passing “Historic” legislation; Obama would have made it very unpleasant for them.

]]> By: catfsh http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293018 catfsh Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:52:11 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293018 "I’m also frequently startled to find that personality traits and behaviors that seem transparently obvious to me are obscure or invisible to folks I would usually consider perceptive." Tell us about it! How did so many swallow b.s. that was SO OBVIOUS to all of us? And so many people we considered perceptive ... why did they swallow this b.s.? Honestly, I think that he's the first non-white president was a lot of it. And that he followed Dubya was also a lot of it. It was a perfect storm for his b.s. to bypass most perceptive peoples' b.s. detectors. “I’m also frequently startled to find that personality traits and behaviors that seem transparently obvious to me are obscure or invisible to folks I would usually consider perceptive.”

Tell us about it! How did so many swallow b.s. that was SO OBVIOUS to all of us? And so many people we considered perceptive … why did they swallow this b.s.? Honestly, I think that he’s the first non-white president was a lot of it. And that he followed Dubya was also a lot of it. It was a perfect storm for his b.s. to bypass most perceptive peoples’ b.s. detectors.

]]> By: ChooChooMagoo http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/40434/reflections-in-a-dark-room-part-1/#comment-1293016 ChooChooMagoo Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:48:59 +0000 http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/?p=40434#comment-1293016 Very interesting Craig!! I've have heard a few of those reverse rants. Very interesting Craig!!
I’ve have heard a few of those reverse rants.

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