FTAC – Offhand – Sociopathy and Narcissism
Sociopathy — lack of compassion, connection, empathy, feelings integrated with others — may feature in “narcissistic personality disorder” and what I consider its political relative, ‘malignant...
View ArticleLink – Erdogan and Putin – WaPo
Yet these underlying differences have rarely turned into public disputes. As a report by the Moscow Carnegie Center put it, Russia and Turkey “have largely managed to compartmentalize their relations.”...
View ArticleHef & Holly – A Note on Malignant and Reparative Narcissism
PERHAPS — The Malignant controls, discourages, manipulates & The Reparative liberates, encourages, and grows _____ Attempt to escape as he may, the editor of BackChannels returns to his themes even...
View ArticleFTAC – From Correspondence – Focusing on the Despotic
Dictatorships – “Different Talks – Same Walk” — they have nothing to do with any restricted political vision except to exploit language for the eventual attainment of “unlimited narcissistic supply.”...
View ArticleFrom October 2017: Emir of Kano Lamido Sanusi II, Nigeria, on Economic Disparity
Amen! Conversation welcomed. –33–
View ArticleFTAC: A Note on President Trump and the Prospect of a Feudal Modernity
Trump’s support of Israel is about respect for tribal identification and the narcissism related to it. It matches Putin’s views of a renewed and sustained feudal world — a feudal modernity — featuring...
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