Excellent description, pretty much what I believed to be the problem; known a lot of screwed up people and can recognise a mental illness when I see one.
A mini trump.
I don’t think his farcical continued claims that he has done nothing wrong reflect any personal trait. They reflect the rules of the political game.
When a politician is caught doing something, it is normal for them to deny, defect and minimise. It is simply that Johnson’s especially strong starting position – riding into power as the savior of Brexit – has allowed him to get away with much more denying, deflecting and minimising than most. It doesn’t reflect any particular personality trait, any more than attempting to conquer Europe in the game Risk indicates that you aspire to be a Napoleonic Emperor.
I think what’s far better evidence for personal flaws is his inability to be faithful in any of his relationships, his being sacked for printing false quotes and his threatening to bear up a rival. None of those is sanctioned by the rules of any of those corners of society in the same way that trying to deny wrongdoing is normal in politics.
From what I read here… the traits they are talking about are basically those attributed to serial killers. I’m not saying they are incorrect, I’m just saying that *dark triad* is a glove fit for serial killers.
Man has an affair behind his cancer-sick wife with a woman barely older than his eldest daughter, and then abandons said wife in her recovery for the new sleaze. Having done that already at least once prior.
Who are we kidding? Its not like any of this stuff has been hard to see. Scratch the surface and the slime doesn’t ooze it spurts out. We all know what this kind of man is and we all know the type who just laugh it off as some kind of game or joke in their sycophancy. They’re not nice people to put it mildly. Why we have had to spend years dancing around this trying to play polite is beyond me.
There’s nothing wrong with these traits tbf – they are overall beneficial to humanity. I would argue too much empathy was more detrimental than having the “dark triad” and lead to weakness of leaders.
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Excellent description, pretty much what I believed to be the problem; known a lot of screwed up people and can recognise a mental illness when I see one.
A mini trump.
I don’t think his farcical continued claims that he has done nothing wrong reflect any personal trait. They reflect the rules of the political game.
When a politician is caught doing something, it is normal for them to deny, defect and minimise. It is simply that Johnson’s especially strong starting position – riding into power as the savior of Brexit – has allowed him to get away with much more denying, deflecting and minimising than most. It doesn’t reflect any particular personality trait, any more than attempting to conquer Europe in the game Risk indicates that you aspire to be a Napoleonic Emperor.
I think what’s far better evidence for personal flaws is his inability to be faithful in any of his relationships, his being sacked for printing false quotes and his threatening to bear up a rival. None of those is sanctioned by the rules of any of those corners of society in the same way that trying to deny wrongdoing is normal in politics.
From what I read here… the traits they are talking about are basically those attributed to serial killers. I’m not saying they are incorrect, I’m just saying that *dark triad* is a glove fit for serial killers.
Man has an affair behind his cancer-sick wife with a woman barely older than his eldest daughter, and then abandons said wife in her recovery for the new sleaze. Having done that already at least once prior.
Who are we kidding? Its not like any of this stuff has been hard to see. Scratch the surface and the slime doesn’t ooze it spurts out. We all know what this kind of man is and we all know the type who just laugh it off as some kind of game or joke in their sycophancy. They’re not nice people to put it mildly. Why we have had to spend years dancing around this trying to play polite is beyond me.
There’s nothing wrong with these traits tbf – they are overall beneficial to humanity. I would argue too much empathy was more detrimental than having the “dark triad” and lead to weakness of leaders.