Venting Some people live in an unbelievable way.

[SilentSadness]

It is impossible to understand how some people get by. Some people are complete shells, devoid of any human characteristics or creativity. These people could not think more highly of themselves, and could not think more lowly of other people. For them, their mind doesn't have a concept of "cognitive dissonance", and they are very happy to hold extremely contradicting beliefs. Their mind doesn't store information to be correct, since facts are only useful as far as they can be weaponised. As such, they have no problem living with ideas like "everyone is happy" at the same time as "it's right to hurt others for personal gain", since the first idea exists to justify the next. But even if they hurt others, as they believe is right, it is never their fault because fault is a tool to use against others and not oneself. It is impossible to convince them of any wrongdoing, because they do not consider themselves moral agents capable of being guilty. They are too busy thinking down on others, and they will criticise every little thing about other people. What's often shocking is that these people don't have to hide themselves or pretend to have souls, since most people accept this as normal. They only want one thing: their way. Even if it involves destroying others, it is simply business expenses to them. It is despairingly miserable, both for these people, their victims, and a society that always looks the other way.

 

[steppenwolf]

Yes, you're talking about psychopaths. But they're not really alive and capable of feeling joy or misery, like people who recognize each other's and the world's aliveness are alive and capable of feeling joy or misery. They're just following a genetic program for their own increase, and the only measure of their success that has any meaning to them is in the misery their success causes to others. There's no gratitude for their good fortune, no awareness of the miraculous in it, no joy in living, that's all inconceivable except as weakness or a superfluous indulgent waste of resources. There's just a ruthless single-minded determination to take what must be taken and eliminate all obstacles to the taking of it regardless of the wider cost, whose success can only be measured in terms of the misery of the world. They could be entirely replaced and everything they do could be done or left undone by machines, and it would make absolutely no difference whatsoever to their awareness of the consequences of their actions. They have fought and will fight wars. Millions of innocent people have died. Atomic weapons have been used against defenceless civilians. Rape, murder, genocide, every worst kinds of horror have been perpetrated and approved of. And they not merely approve but celebrate it as if it is the greatest of human achievements, and it is inconceivable that there is the least guilt or responsibility to be borne by anyone for any of it.

Such people come and they go. They never change. Murderers from the beginning, and their children can never turn out any better than their parents. They are cursed.

 

[roommate]

What's often shocking is that these people don't have to hide themselves or pretend to have souls, since most people accept this as normal.

Yea this one is crazy true. It's often that I catch an eye with others in that situation and both think that what he is doing is out of proportion.
But yet no action get taken and the narcist can still work with his ego.