Shaun Maguire—venture capital partner, SpaceX bet winner, sophisticated bigot—wants you to know that Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything.” That it’s “literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda.”
“We have to do a better job of correcting the truth with the other half of the truth.”. How broken do you have to be to tie yourself in enough knots to say that?
"And that—that inability to recognize their own systematic deception while projecting it onto others—that’s the sociopath problem made explicit."
Yet, at least in the popular mythology of sociopaths, they know that they're lying. That's their supposed superpower -- they can knowingly do the socially forbidden without guilt, without even showing stress on a lie detector test. Are we looking then at (1) this myth being wrong, or (2) there being two classes of sociopaths, the knowing and unknowing, or (3) we're looking, in the examples you cite, at a variety of psychosis, where the central problem is delusion ... and they are being honest within the frameworks of their delusions?
I'm not a psychologist. I did study the stuff half a century ago as an undergrad.
They lie, manipulate and project. Their policies are cruel and sadistic. The comparison with mental illness is apt. The mainstream press failing to point this out shows their failure and complicity.
You've just revealed the shortcut to understanding American politics for years.
Watch what Republicans accuse Democrats of doing to destroy America. That is the exact thing Republicans are doing do destroy America.
“We have to do a better job of correcting the truth with the other half of the truth.”. How broken do you have to be to tie yourself in enough knots to say that?
"And that—that inability to recognize their own systematic deception while projecting it onto others—that’s the sociopath problem made explicit."
Yet, at least in the popular mythology of sociopaths, they know that they're lying. That's their supposed superpower -- they can knowingly do the socially forbidden without guilt, without even showing stress on a lie detector test. Are we looking then at (1) this myth being wrong, or (2) there being two classes of sociopaths, the knowing and unknowing, or (3) we're looking, in the examples you cite, at a variety of psychosis, where the central problem is delusion ... and they are being honest within the frameworks of their delusions?
I'm not a psychologist. I did study the stuff half a century ago as an undergrad.
They lie, manipulate and project. Their policies are cruel and sadistic. The comparison with mental illness is apt. The mainstream press failing to point this out shows their failure and complicity.