Oneupmanship: Why Narcissist Must Win, Be Right (Psychopath, too!)
July 27, 2023
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as posted by the channelNarcissist/psychopath interact with the game, not with other players. There is no intimacy, trust, or the honing of social skills.
Narcissists must win by eradicating the competitor, so not competitive
Will use any means, including underhanded or even criminal
Preemptive winning to avoid being dominated or shamed
Narcissists must be right (not argumentative or opinionated, but eristic: lecturing, hectoring, and censoring)
Will lie, confabulate, invent: like AI hallucinations
Regardless of costs, benefits, alternatives
Dirty fighting: betrayal dynamic
Fragility of inflated, fantastic, counterfactual self-image: defense of the fantasy
Bounded rationality (satisfice, not optimize, minimum investment for minimally accepted outcomes)
Impaired reality testing
Catastrophizing and false dichotomous view of the power matrix (from exploiting superior to forever exploited inferior)
Reframing: self-supply via self-deception (I had won, been proven right or vindicated)
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