A curious side-note of the G-20 Snub clip is that if you watch carefully, Bush's body language is like that of a child...he seems incapable of controlling his reaction to snubbing. And equally incapable of connecting why he is being snubbed to what he and his gang of thugs have done. It's like he's surprised?
Like it took him off guard.
What I'm building up to here is my theory that he suffers from NPD. "Malignant narcissism" renders the suffer into a sort of basking sadist that on the one hand seems functional in that they often aspire to power and can organize their thoughts along that line of "shining in the eyes of the world". But when it comes to very basic associations of "why is this person being mean to me?" they cannot see that even though they smacked them in the face with a 2 x 4 just minutes earlier, why that person would have an adverse reaction to the NPD sufferer?
"Other" doesn't exist. They literally lack the ability to join cause and effect and everything in their mind is filtered through one simple filter: "Either you adore me or you are the enemy of me, now in the moment, forever. And if you don't adore me or let me have what I want, or if I anticipate you won't adore me (they suffer from paranoia too) or let me have what I want, I will annihilate you and undermine you in any way I possibly can." They see someone else with true admirable qualities as "competition" to shine and will therefore pick the nicest people to smear, defamate and ruin accordingly. It's not personal, it's business and the business of the narcissist is to outshine everyone, always..in their mind.
And then you're just supposed to stand there for the annihilation...or else it will get worse. Onlookers are stunned by their behavior. And that stunning keeps them in line too...
lest anyone else get the wise idea of thwarting the narcissists demands and desires for adoration. It also serves to get attention...the mainstay of the NPD sufferer. They'll settle for good or bad depending on what slant of NPD they follow...as long as *they* are the topic at hand.
They are very childlike emotionally. They suffer from deep psychological wounds in their early years of development and have adopted NPD to compensate for those wounds, ironically becoming that which originally wounded them. And hence NPD can be a generational social disorder. Some have theorized that entire social structures can be remade and warped if a strong enough narcissist is at the forefront, to which they commonly aspire. Nazi Germany is a case in point. The republican party, another example. I am almost certain Ronald Reagan suffered from NPD as well..
I've heard that you can make smoke come out of their ears by asking them "how do you think I feel about that?". The word "I" doesn't exist in reference to you. The only "I" that exists to a narcissist is
them...
always..
Later, everyone is supposed to forget about everything the narcissist has done and accept them as an equal citizen worthy of adoration and respect. (Sarah Palin's "I don't have a rear-view mirror mantra) When that fails to happen (as with G-20 Snub) the narcissist looks utterly befuddled. They lock the shame for their behavior away in a vault so tightly that they cannot access it to make connections between trial and error and learning from one's mistakes via the pain of social reprimands. In other words they've decided to circumvent social learning by bullying and staying on top no matter what. And this has disconnected them from making associations between their behavior and the consequences of that behavior.
They have lost the ability to learn, socially.
And this is our sitting (duck) president currently. I like to call the G-20 Snub, "The walk of the befuddled narcissist". For that is what it really depicts.
Here it is again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqVhjfZWKkU
