No one engages you, Prometheus, because (1) you're such a terrible writer that shoveling through paragraph after paragraph of your long winded screeds to sort out some kernels of meaning among the steaming piles of pseudo-intellectual verbiage is actually physically painful, and (2) You're such a condescending and unpleasant git that it's just not worth the effort.
""...a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules."
Sounds like Ayn Rand's "heroes" all over, who show nothing but contempt for societal rules and mores.
"I can only hope that someday, I am in my boat on the lake and I come across prometheus floundering in the water, getting ready to go under for the third time. As I cruise past him, my only comment will be: " Sorry I can't share my boat with you sir, lest you think I'm a socialist."
Pray you're not the one drowning. He'd throw you a rock and then spend an hour and a half explaining how he'd done the world a favor by ridding it of another "parasite."
You can wrap in it all the pompous verbiage you want, Prometheus, but it's really very simple: Randian Objectivism =sociopathy. That makes you a sociopath.
The fact that you refer to your fellow citizens as "parasites" should be the first clue. It's the same kind of coldness, narcissism, and lack of feeling for humanity that you read in the writings and statements of serial killers.
"Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should...he has no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"
Hickman kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a teenage girl and sent her body parts to the police to taunt them.
That's who your hero admires. Do you share the same philosophy that murder and rape are the mark of the 'Superman" who "will not be ruled"?
It figures that Prometheus would be an Ayn Rand fan. The turgid, nearly unreadable writing, the arrogance and pomposity, the attempt to elevate sociopathy to a political philosophy--P may very well be the reincarnation of that psychotic, vicious hag who one wrote of a convicted serial killer who'd kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a 13 year old girl that he was "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism."
People like Rand (and Prometheus) have elevated lack of compassion to such a fetish that they'd likely be serial killers themselves if they could work up the energy.
"It shows exactly what kind of a person we are dealing with."
It figures that Prometheus would be an Ayn Rand fan. The turgid, nearly unreadable writing, the arrogance and pomposity, the attempt to elevate sociopathy to a political philosophy--P may very well be the reincarnation of that psychotic, vicious hag who one wrote of a convicted serial killer who'd kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a 13 year old girl that he was "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism."
People like Rand (and Prometheus) have elevated lack of compassion to such a fetish that they'd likely be serial killers themselves if they could work up the energy.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Chicken Little and the Socialists
No one engages you, Prometheus, because (1) you're such a terrible writer that shoveling through paragraph after paragraph of your long winded screeds to sort out some kernels of meaning among the steaming piles of pseudo-intellectual verbiage is actually physically painful, and (2) You're such a condescending and unpleasant git that it's just not worth the effort.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Chicken Little and the Socialists
"Thanks Eastern65 ! Good Post. Diane McLellan"
Except that it's plagiarized.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
""...a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules."
Sounds like Ayn Rand's "heroes" all over, who show nothing but contempt for societal rules and mores.
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Unrealistic / Grandiose Sense of Self
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Yep, yep, yep. That's our Prometheus.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
Ayn Rand's "idealized" hero Howard Roark:
"He was born without the ability to consider others."
Sounds pretty sociopathic to me.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
"I can only hope that someday, I am in my boat on the lake and I come across prometheus floundering in the water, getting ready to go under for the third time. As I cruise past him, my only comment will be: " Sorry I can't share my boat with you sir, lest you think I'm a socialist."
Pray you're not the one drowning. He'd throw you a rock and then spend an hour and a half explaining how he'd done the world a favor by ridding it of another "parasite."
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
You can wrap in it all the pompous verbiage you want, Prometheus, but it's really very simple: Randian Objectivism =sociopathy. That makes you a sociopath.
The fact that you refer to your fellow citizens as "parasites" should be the first clue. It's the same kind of coldness, narcissism, and lack of feeling for humanity that you read in the writings and statements of serial killers.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Prometheus
An Ayn Rand fan, then?
Ayn Rand on William Hickman:
"Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should...he has no regard whatsoever for all that society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. He has the true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel 'other people.'"
Hickman kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a teenage girl and sent her body parts to the police to taunt them.
That's who your hero admires. Do you share the same philosophy that murder and rape are the mark of the 'Superman" who "will not be ruled"?
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
We're Supposed To be a Nation Based on Law
It figures that Prometheus would be an Ayn Rand fan. The turgid, nearly unreadable writing, the arrogance and pomposity, the attempt to elevate sociopathy to a political philosophy--P may very well be the reincarnation of that psychotic, vicious hag who one wrote of a convicted serial killer who'd kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a 13 year old girl that he was "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism."
People like Rand (and Prometheus) have elevated lack of compassion to such a fetish that they'd likely be serial killers themselves if they could work up the energy.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
"It shows exactly what kind of a person we are dealing with."
It figures that Prometheus would be an Ayn Rand fan. The turgid, nearly unreadable writing, the arrogance and pomposity, the attempt to elevate sociopathy to a political philosophy--P may very well be the reincarnation of that psychotic, vicious hag who one wrote of a convicted serial killer who'd kidnapped, raped, murdered and dismembered a 13 year old girl that he was "a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy," shimmering with "immense, explicit egotism."
People like Rand (and Prometheus) have elevated lack of compassion to such a fetish that they'd likely be serial killers themselves if they could work up the energy.
TheNeedle 2 years, 9 months ago
Tell It Enough — They'll Believe It
Yawn. Apparently "Prometheus" believes that the written equivalent of a long, boring harangue by a condescending schoolmaster is persuasive.
Nothing could be further from the truth.