From: AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Rudy's Reasons For Not Believing Anything Rudy Did Not Say
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 15:00:06 -0500
Organization: AlleyCat Computing, Inc.
Narcissists Really Are Pathetic And Broken
Imagine that the only way you could feel better about yourself is by putting other people down, sabotaging them, crushing them, turning others against them. Entering them into a competition that they did not sign up for and beating them at any and all cost. Imagine having such poor, pathetic character that that's the main way that you operate in life. That's all you're capable of. That's all you stand for, taking away the joy and fulfillment from other people.
That's just pathetic. How empty, how shameless do you have to be to behave like that? To treat other people as only existing to be a means to your end? Being utterly incapable of ever truly wishing another well? That is a sad, desperate existence.
They are emotionally stunted. They are not capable of the full depth of emotion you and I am. They will never truly know love. At best the mimic the appearance of love and think that's what it is. Now that is truly sad.
The narcissist already knows that he is broken. The narcissist hates himself, has massive shame and expects everything he touches to turn to shit. His outer defense is to deny and avoid that shame, because he won't get the attention, energy, admiration and sex that he requires if he steeps himself in that toxic tea.
To be clear, I'm NOT talking about covert narcissists, because I have no experience with them.
Therefore, the overt narcissist presents a confident, powerful, indifferent, ego-centric public profile. No matter his stature/height, he will be "Large and in Charge," larger than life. In this case, the narcissist is 5'6", ugly, badly-groomed, sloppily dressed and with an unseemly figure.
He's chronically depressed, frequently sunk into a pit of despair that he tries to remedy by watching porn and being addicted to his image on Facebook (mysterious, twistedly funny and politically "out there") with frequent rants that were childish and offensive to many people.
So, narcissists don't have to "find out" they're broken. If you are hoping that helping them discover their brokenness may lead them to an epiphany that will turn around your Usenet relationship, don't.
Their brokenness is not fixable.