A sigh.You seem to hold a rather naïve view of life. Which is probably why it seems everything always comes down to powerplays for you. Thoughts? — Tom Storm
Duh. Not everyone who gets branded as a narcissist is one.Having worked closely with people who live 'dysfunctional' and distressed lives - who suicide and overdose and slash themselves with broken glass and tend to be dead by 40 - I see little evidence of strategizing and play acting.
Our primate ancestors bequeathed to us both the physically bound emotions (the limbic system) and the capacity to think--about the physical, the abstract, the past, the future... The emotions are not reasonable, but they motivate reasoning. Of the two, the emotions usually have the upper hand. — Bitter Crank
“All brain divisions are present in all vertebrates. ” — Joshs
"Affect is not just necessary for wisdom; it’s also irrevocably woven into the fabric of every decision.” — Joshs
Says who? The Holy Inquisition?We can be rational, but so often are not. — Bitter Crank
Because people need labels and the justifications that come with them. You can't just burn someone at the stakes; instead, you need to make it look justified, such as by saying, "She's a witch!"Why narcissism? Why neuroticism? Free floating aggression? Etc.???
“… we humans have long believed that rationality makes us special in the animal kingdom. This origin myth reflects one of the most cherished narratives in Western thought, that the human mind is a battlefield where cognition and emotion struggle for control of behavior.
/.../ — Joshs
The primary function of psychiatric labels is that they absolve the "normal" folks from any responsibility for how they treat those on whom they pin those labels. People apparently need freedom like that. — baker
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