Revelation of the Communal Narcissist
Covid Revealed Much. This One Blew My Mind.
Prompted by a discussion on my previous post, I was watching some video recently about personality types. I came across this video on narcissism in which this psychologist describes 4 different types of narcissists. I was looking up the difference between a narcissist, a sociopath, and a psychopath and came across the following video.
Classical Grandiose Narcissist - ego driven, arrogant, attention-seeking, lacking empathy
Malignant Narcissist - all the things a classical narcissist is, but more evil and uncaring. She references someone like Bernie Madoff. While a classical narcissist is more able to feel guilt and shame if they do something really wrong, the malignant narcissist does not.
Covert Narcissist - essentially someone who makes the entire world about them and feels like the world owes them, that they were victimized, when the world doesn’t reward them for their “brilliance” or the perceived aggression committed against them. “Look at how victim-y they feel…the covert narcissist never takes ownership.”
Communal Narcissist - someone who does good deeds or publicly signals virtue in order for others to heap praise on them. They rarely do good for the sake of doing good, and they don’t truly believe in the good they’re trying to convey. She used the example of someone going to the animal rescue or homeless shelter looking real good and then posting everywhere about it. “They’re always out there trying to save the world…but they need a lot of recognition.”
The third, but especially the forth type really got my attention, and in fact, spawned a sort of revelation to me.
While we’ve witnessed MANY things over the past 30 months that have blown my mind and made my skin crawl, this revelation is going to rank right up there.
My mask saves you. Your mask saves me.
Do the right thing. Vax, mask, test.
Wait, you won’t? I’m going to cry so loud everyone can hear meeee!
I’m in Pennsylvania, and this commercial was running everywhere as late as this July, 2022. It’s a minor miracle I haven’t clawed my eyes out or put a screwdriver into my ear canal.
As I went through the following video and most likely confirmed I’m probably a Sigma Empath, one of the signs that offered me proof was my ability to spot a narcissist. But not just spot a narcissist, but be repelled by one.
As I’ve digested all of this, I’ve come away with a new understanding of what I’ve gone through over the past 30 months, and why even pre-covid, I was repelled to my core at the victimhood mentality and the virtue signaling.
It in many ways comes back to narcissism.
It’s no secret we arguably live in the most narcissistic time in human history. It’s estimated that:
One person will take 450 selfies a year
Each DAY there are 93 million selfies taken
Each year there are 34 BILLION.
AND, there is more time spent on deciding if we should even POST that selfie than even just taking the selfie.
It takes just 11 seconds to decide if we are satisfied with the specific selfie, but we tend to spend another 26 minutes worrying if it should be shared on social media. This fact lets us assume that we are seriously debating with ourselves on how it will represent us online.
Think about how much time is being spent on just selfies around the world by individuals. It’s staggering.
Let’s look at the breakdown on what age groups are taking them.
As I digest all of this, I come to some conclusions.
Narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths are running the world. These are the people most capable of being CEOs and politicians.
Narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths are incredible at exploiting empathy to get what they want.
These narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths have invested an unfathomable amount of time and resource into influencing the masses over a period of a century at least.
They’ve trained the masses to become narcissistic, yet are masters at creating a false sense of empathy that they themselves exploit. Most people aren’t born narcissistic or sociopathic. In fact, one of the biggest differences between a sociopath and a psychopath is sociopathy is learned where psychopathy is believed to be ingrained from birth.
I believe it’s pretty clear - and the WEF (run by psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists) recently confirmed - that the Covid experiment was a big beta test…ahem, in their own words, a “test of social responsibility.”
Every mask that was gleefully and willingly donned.
Every jab that was bragged about online and in social circles.
Every crying Karen reeeeing about someone “not doing their part.”
Every joyous proclamation that those not complying were “plague rats” upon which physical harm, legal action, and job termination should be the retribution.
There are predators, and there are prey. It’s always been this way. However, the architects behind this whole sham are predators, and they systematically have turned a not-insignificant population of the globe into prey. They have trained their prey to show their core weaknesses while simultaneously teaching them the power of covert and communal narcissism.
I am a lone wolf. I don’t know why, but I do know I’m thankful for that. Being a lone wolf has allowed me to instinctively resist these tactics and trainings. It’s allowed me to see through - and call - bullshit, over and over. I don’t care about your contrived social constructs or flagrantly false virtues.
I’m fascinated, saddened and repulsed by all of you who have allowed these predators to exploit you and turn you into someone who is so narcissistic, regardless of how virtuous you think you or your cause is or how humble you think you are.
In the end, your faith in these people is shallow, and you’ve allowed yourself to become angry and uninformed sheep. You are much more vulnerable than you care to admit, and what you do admit - the fear you feel now - is destroying you. You lie awake at night, sweating, terrified, and you don’t even know why. It’s because you’re a sitting duck, chattel being lead to the slaughter house.
There’s still time for you, but it’s running out. Maybe put that next selfie on hold. Maybe examine everything you’ve been taught and consider whether it’s your OWN thought or something implanted in you, and if it’s been implanted in you, who did it and what’s their motive?
Get out of your own way. Get out of line. It’s pretty cool being a lone wolf out here in the wild.
I agree with the heart of your post but not with the box-sorting and I disagree with the idea of sociopaths being made and not born.
Elsewhere I've said that I think much of the shit we're in comes from the relentless celebration and elevation of "neurodivergence" as a wonderful, wonderful thing, and the use of them as fronts, so to speak, by the actually sociopathic and those who aren't necessarily miswired but merely evil and with the power to be so, successfully.
Rather than "sigma empaths," maybe it's plain essential animal instincts. Look how relentlessly they're trying to get the littlest kids now to ignore their own natural unease with the trespassing of boundaries. Everyone everywhere is being told to ignore anything and everything that just feels off and instead to just "trust the experts."
We got an oversupply of psych grads and they gotta make money and devising fancy ways of naming things is a great way to sell books.
1) I fucking hate that commercial, and I hate that our state tax dollars paid for it (not to mention all the propaganda billboards that are still up).
2) At least when I learned about them, the "classical grandiose narcissist" and the "malignant narcissist" weren't understood as "this one is just a worse version of the other." The difference was the presence or absence of misanthropy. Grandiose narcissists weren't misanthropic; they were too self-centered. Malignant narcissists feel their superiority entitles them to immorality, like Rich Sanchez. Grandiose narcissists are capable of behaving at least as badly; in fact, they're more likely to behave explosively. "Covert narcissists" were compared to people like incels or school shooters; they behave explosively because they quietly foster more and more resentment at being treated unfairly, but the core pathology is the same (I deserve better, unequal treatment than I receive). Communal narcissism was the only truly new concept I saw there.
3) I don't think many of the things being described as communal narcissism are rooted in pathology. I think they're fairly typical social characteristics being hijacked and exploited, and I don't think it requires (but it certainly doesn't exclude) the presence of psychopaths. End-stage capitalism is about manipulating such a tiny remaining delta of motivation that ALL of it reads as psychopathic manipulation, because there's really no other ground left but the fundamental distortion of our emotional landscape and free will. People said this about marketing 50 years ago; they were hypersensitive to processes that have, in the intervening time and with the benefit of better data technology, achieved the "meat machines" that Harari loves calling us.