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Donald Trump is a narcissist and I am not using narcissist as an insult Roland00 Send a noteboard - 21/12/2015 12:59:08 PM

Donald Trump is a narcissist, his brain is organized in a way where he has extreme high confidence combine with his brain put DO mode and he does not use any self reflection.

In the last 12 years or so but especially since 2008 our understanding of how the brain works and how our brain shifts between different types of attention networks and control networks has grown by orders of magnitude.

http://www.hrplab.org/notes-functional-networks-using-rs-fcmri-graph-theoretic-approach/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network

Here is a graph that shows the expoential rise of studying these various brain networks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network#/media/FileMN_Publications.jpg

Notice prior to 2008 it is non existent, it is on in the late 90s but really early 2000s we had the tech to study this, and only after some initial papers in 2006 replicating research from 2003/2004 that you then have an explosion of research being published in 2008. Pre 2008 31 articles (Name was picked in 2001), 77 total articles in 2008 (counting the previous years) aka a doubling in a single year, today in 2015 we have 1280 articles with this being the research subject aka a 40 fold increase since 2007

Well you can break down the networks into smaller parts, one of the networks the default mode is your internal mind's mirror of self reflection, it reflects and analyzes and notices patterns you did not notice for you were hyperfocusing on the moment. This network is also the network that helps you learn from your past mistakes and creates a sense of self and being that is nuanced and not "artificial or gilded." The default mode network also connects the past, the future, and the present into a self driven narrative and helps you plan for the future by figuring out what you need in a reflective sense.

The task positive network by contrast is the network that gets stuff done. It has its advantages but it is not the network you use to learn new things but instead the network to implement with the current information on hand. This is the network that lives in the present.

And one of the emotion networks the emotional saliency network switches between these two networks or keeps these networks roughly balanced in a self reflective state where you can think outside the box. Many forms of theology, religion, etc try to teach a person to do a mindful type of meditation or some form of self reflective task daily such as exercising and zoning out for by not getting to involved into the reality at this very moment. Doing so is good for your mental health, helps creative problem solving, empathy, increase grey matter in the frontal lobe, and the religious / theological / philosophical people will say help you self answer the riddles of the universe.



Donald Trump is a man stuck on go, with no brake (for the emotional saliency network is the brain's brake and gear shifter), and no gps, and no plan on how to solve anything for that requires self reflection and he does not have it.

Now a disruption of these networks are not just connected to narccissism but also to other things like anxiety disorders, emotional disorders such as bipolar, depression, borderline personality disorder, ocd, autism, adhd, but also other things such as the various forms of dementia with alzheimer's being just one of them, huntington's disease, parkinson's disease, chronic pain and fibromyalgia, and a couple dozen other disorders.

 

 

Now being a narcissist does not make you a bad person it is just a character flaw not because its a flaw but because you are not using the full range of human potential, empathy and self reflection are useful tools

Being a narcissist does not make you evil, nor does it make you scum. It just makes you hyperfocus on your own self and unaware of everything else in the world going around you. In king arthur mythology there are two different types of knights and a person should try to be both, the white knight with his chivalric code based off loyalty to laws and rules and traditions and being super nice, and the black knight which is the humble knight who is like a good religious monk who cares for the people and not for things like lands, titles, rules but instead for things that you can see touch and feel that makes human being human.

The white knight, the knight errant, is only part of being a good person, you also need to the black knight whose does good things not because they are seen but because they are right, a man who swears no allegiance except to the people and to empathy. When you are a "nice person" and a narcissist you are the white knight, being a black knight is counter to much of narcissism and thus it is very hard for a narcissist to naturally do without thinking. But remember not all narcissists are knights, but some narcissists are not knights at all but are just con artists or drama queens.

There are also not just 1 type of narcissism but several forms of narcissism, and some of the forms are people who see themselves as white knights, literally lancelot, there are a dozen tellings of the king arthur mythos and the grail legends but in half of them lancelot is a narcissist with a heart of gold but with no understanding of how other people feel or thinking, with no empathy. A man who thinks his chivalric code can solve all problems and since he can always just duel for the sake of honor, if he wins of course he was on the right side for god ordained this.

This is the same Lancelot who was denied the holy grail at the grail doorstep. He was denied for he was not worthy for he was a narcissist. Now there are like 9 different versions of the arthurian grail myth since 11th century AD and different people reach the grail and are denied or obtain it in different versions. Lancelot, Percival, Gallahad (Lancelot's illegitimate son who is the perfect knight, the man who merges white and black knight and thus can sit on the seat of destiny, the Siege Perilous a chair who if you sat in it and were not worthy god would strike you dead instantly). Unlike Lancelot in the Grail myths Galahad is in obtains the holy grail and he eventually ascends into heaven similar to religious figures like Elijah, Jesus, Mohammed, and Mary.




Donald Trump is a walking disaster just like Doc Brown from Back to the Future is a walking disaster, Doc Brown may be super smart but he gets into a hyperfocus state and then he forgets really big important things. Things that matter.

It is not a question of whether you are smart or whether you are rational or crazy, its a question of character and whether you have the skills needed for the job and Donald Trump lacks them.

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Now all that above was not my personal opinion of Donald Trump as a human being, he is not a human being he is SCUM. When he was asked a media question why did not you not serve in vietnam and your papa got a deferment in 24 hours he brings up McCain and calls him a non war hero and a failure. This is a man who was put in a prison camp and was tortured, and who could personally have walked out as soon as he wanted due to McCain's dad connections as a US senator but McCain did not for he did not want to be a propaganda piece and he did not want to run away and abandon the rest of his fellow soldiers in the prison camp.

To change a subject for you feel uncomfortable and to attack a person who has personally suffered so much for he served his country and his quality of life was greatly diminished. **** You donald trump

And this is not even touching the racist bigoted rants of Donald Trump involving Mexicans and Muslims and Blacks and a dozen other people. The thing is donald trump is not a racist in a traditional sense everyone is the other so when he insults one group of other vs another its not personal.

It is just narcissism


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I was raised by 3 groups of parents, 2 of them were narcissist, 1 of them was not a narcissist but believed everyone in the family needed to "group think" the same way for the betterment of the family to such an extent it was the detriment of every single individual in the family. 2 Narcissists and 1 loving woman who was like a minor version of a cult follower with her willful blinders she put on.

This message last edited by Roland00 on 21/12/2015 at 03:11:29 PM
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