If you observe Trump, especially in the last few days in the aftermath of killing of right-wing speaker, you will get lessons on narcist psychopath. The “conservative” speaker had reprehensible racist views but wouldn’t want him physically harmed for holding such views, killing is worst act and so brings in the issue of easily accessible deadly weapons in US. His lack of empathy for gun victims can be factored into money and powerful lobby that was propping confident articulate narration to impress the herd. As a human being we condole the dead. And now observe Trump -who was supposed to be his friend and supporter, his absolute lack of compassion, indeed using the occasion for grandiosity, such blatant display is what makes this fellow extremely dangerous. Absolute disregard for the dead confidante (indeed it seems he is perversely energized as if in natural terrain of a psychopath) shows degradation and what monstrosities he is capable to do. Instead of bringing nation together he is sowing conspiracy theories. This fellow can create worst of possibilities and actively participate to perpetuate disastrous consequence to keep himself relevant (Lately he is showing signs of serious underlying health conditions and it's likely JD Vance could be the next President in very near future. Despite his posturing for the herd JD doesn't seem to be that bad a person).
Confident incompetent Democrats no doubt helped not in insignificant way to position a narcist psychopath as leader. Sometime back I discussed this book Corruptible: Who gets power and how it changes us (Brian Klaas) a comprehensive study on dark triad of Machiavellian narcist psychopath who are naturally drawn to power. All across the world narcist selfish people with varying shade of psychopathy are occupying position of power and influence. This also equally true in case of technology (fundamental science and research related areas seem to be few spaces that is low on narcissism since it involves less of human and attention seeking and more of passion to understand) that is meant to monetize hence works with system of exaggeration. All manipulative systems create opportunity for narcist. Egotism is not necessarily narcissism and talented perceptive artists generally do have high degree of awareness of human condition. Low quality art is manipulation space for narcist and they are given credence in society that doesn’t really have nuanced understanding or standards that value complexity. The constructed us vs them binary is fertile ground for psychopaths to slip in as benign saviors.
If you look at human society as a system, it clearly is nurturing worst kind of people into position of power so as to influence course of humanity. It is likely that collective conscience of humanity is in self-harm mode as it has expanded beyond its limit and is severely encroaching into space of other beings and self-sustaining systems on earth. There is an imbalance that is created and it is speculated that narcist psychopath like Trump are universal subconscious of life nurtured to speed up self-destruction of arrogant specie. There doesn’t seem to be any other explanation. It seems to be increasingly beyond our control. There is no thinking, no compassion, no awareness of reality (not even an attempt) as much of humanity is nurtured in denial, kept distracted in greed and gain, incapacitated to think therefore least concerned about collapsing life nurturing systems. Wherein people have all the wherewithal and unprecedented access to knowledge, to learn and know about things, be responsible and take logical meaningful actions to prevent catastrophe. To have compassion for others and other species, be humbled by vastness of universe and uniqueness of life. Why is it difficult to understand?
