From: Chris Taylor (christ@ebi.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 15 Nov 2004 - 00:01:06 GMT
Clinical narcissism -- nice phrase :)
Rx = annhilation of self, twice daily, after meals...
Cheers, Chris.
edace wrote:
>>From: Scott Chase <osteopilus@yahoo.com>
>>
>>My recent hobby horse has been the history of the
>>relationship between the US and Cuba. In the case of
>>Cuban exile extremism and the acts that could be
>>construed as terrorism against Castro and other
>>perceived enemies, I don't think that relative
>>political freedom is a factor since the exile
>>extremists live in the US and are as free as anyone
>>else in the US. They are also fairly affluent as a
>>group, which would rule out the factor of poverty and
>>looming privation. I'm not sure how oppression plays a
>>role in the generation of the rabid anti-Castro
>>mindset. Maybe some exiles are the product of past
>>oppression in Cuba if they were imprisoned and/or
>>exiled by Castro or fled after the revolution was
>>hijacked by Castro. Some of them, if part of the
>>Batista regime, may have been oppressors themselves
>>when the shoe was on the other foot. They might also
>>look at Castro as an oppressor responsible for holding
>>Cuba down for his own gains and feel an indirect sense
>>of oppression since they still have family members and
>>lost estates in Cuba.
>
>
> The key factor here is narcissism. Cuba was the last Latin American country
> to overthrow Spanish rule. As other Latin American countries threw off
> their colonial masters, the former elites migrates to countries where the
> Spanish still ruled. By 1898 Cuba was brimming with aristocrats from all
> over the Americas. At this point, it looked as if Cuba too was going down
> the toilet to revolution and democracy. Lo and behold, the US intervened in
> the revolution just prior to its inevitable victory and claimed Cuba as its
> own. Thus the US became the new Spain. The aristocrats toadied up to the
> US just as they had to the Spanish. It would be another 60 years before the
> Cuban revolution would finally occur, and the aristos headed north to
> Florida (where they are currently influencing US elections!)
>
> The aristos are people who feel they are entitled to rule and to be rich whi
> le others toil without hope in conditions of near-starvation. Justice, to
> them, means they remain in the upper class while the lower class caters to
> their needs. Injustice is when the lower class gains a measure of equality
> and prosperity. This is known as malignant narcissism. The aristos are
> vulnerable to memes that exploit their narcissistic mania. This doesn't
> mean they harbor "narcissistic memes" but simply that memes ordinarily
> considered irrational and absolutist are perceived as perfectly reasonable
> in the context of their clinical narcissism.
>
> Ted
>
>
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