Possibly, yes. Yes, interesting. Take Hitler, he attacked nearly every European country in WW II. First using words, then with his guns, tanks and rockets. His 'Blitzkrieg' was like a rampage killing on a national level. He was in fact a loser, a failed Austrian postcard painter who was rejected at the art academy and lost WW I. Somehow he stumbled into politics and we know the rest, all the evil that followed. The Germans were deeply humiliated after the loss of WW I. Many people in the Islamic world today also feel humiliated too by the loss against Israel and by the lack of progress and prosperity in many Islamic countries (although some like the Gulf states are extremely wealthy, and a bit more freedom and rights for women would clearly help a lot). This lack of satisfaction is the fertile soil for turmoil. I think it is probably the tension between the desired sense of self, which is highly exaggerated among narcissistic people, countries and cultures, and the real sense of self in reality. In physics we have the notion of voltage or electric tension. If the tension gets too high, and there is no lightning rod, we get lightnings and other form of heavy discharges. So the narcissistic person who is doing well is no immediate danger. Neither is the loser who tries to cope with his fate with a sense of humor or irony (he has indeed our deep sympathy). But if you combine the two, if life becomes really miserable for someone and all hope is gone, although the person in question hates nothing more than losing or being critized, it seems to become dangerous. Then he might try to get rid of his pain by giving it to others. -Jochen Sent from my Tricorder -------- Original message --------From: Tom Johnson <[email protected]> Date: 8/1/16 12:38 (GMT+01:00) To: "Friam@redfish. com" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass ShootingsYes, and it also could explain Trump's "verbal violence." ===================================
Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM SPJ Region 9 Director [email protected] 505-473-9646 =================================== On Aug 1, 2016 2:53 AM, "Jochen Fromm" <[email protected]> wrote: Recently there has been an increasing number of rampage killings and suicide attacks in Europe and America. One theory says that rampage killings are related to pathological narcissism. The perpetrators are often offended narcissistic outsiders who want to restore their crippled sense of self-worth by an act of ultimate violence. Usually they announce their terror acts on social media sites. I kill, therefore I am. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/culture-shrink/201510/american-narcissism-and-mass-shooters According to this Psychology Today article, many of the recent rampage killings were a malignant form of narcissism, where the perpetrators had to satisfy their "need for revenge…for undoing a hurt by whatever means… by giving their pain to others and in doing so build up the remnants of their self-worth through violence". What do you think about this theory? Does it make sense? -J. Sent from my Tricorder ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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