I'm posting this because I feel I have to simply state my overwhelming belief that these NPD character are simply dimwits. Dimwits of the first order. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind about this. I have read the literature, I have read the posts here, I have been involved with such a character, and I am absolutely certain that they are ignorant, stupid, and crass in terms of lack of personal graces.

 

Our society has some blame for this. The success of our civilisation, the reservoir of knowlege and experience available to western society, and the miracle of mass production have all helped to make NPD by encouraging and enabelling easily-led impressionable individuals buy into the idea that they are better than they are. They go off on one. And the resultant damage we witness is like what you would expect if you gave a load of money and power to a stupid little kid.

 

Involved with an N, there comes a point in all the craziness when you just have to stand back and say to your self that some thing is not right here, and slowly you begin to see, slowly, painfully, and then we get to the stage where we see the games, the traits, the gaslighting, etc, and for me I have to admit that I cannot fully grasp the low level of idiosy. Words are failing me now. I mean this, I do not have the vocubulary to describe the lowness. This is why we don't see it: it's too low. Never in a billion years would you expect anyone to behave in such a way. It beggars belief.

 

I am not the brightest pixie in the forest, and I'm quite happy with that, but I know enough to state plainly that these people are merely monumentally stupid.......stupified people, like they are under the influence of alcohol, sort of thing. Absolute idiots in a world of their own, behaving in a way which they think is clever, but actually is just so idiotic it is crazy.  For instance, I could slip out of my house now and throw paint stripper all over a neighbour's car, sneakily, and if I was as nuts/stupid as  the N I would be thinking, 'Ah, how clever I am, that I can do this; hee, hee, he'll never suspect me because he thinks I am a friend and I have no reson to do this to him; ha, ha, I am so clever and everyone is so stupid'.   This is what I mean, they operate in that way. There is no N on Earth going to own up to what goes on in their mind, because it is incredibly bonkers. This is why we don't see it, it's just too weird. The question is not what they do but WHY. Why would someone do that, say, to a neighbour's car for no reason? Why do they gaslight and screw with someone's mind who means them no harm? Why, because they are dimwits who miss the plot, and  which life has made so easy for them that they go on an ego trip thinking they are better than they are, and not understanding the plot (to live life wise, just, and fair; to live life and enjoy the experience of being a decent human being, and to experience sharing and respect and enjoy such graces as trust and loyalty and honour and sacriffice for another, etc); because they are too stupid to realise the plot of life they draw blanks and become unhappy and become bitter and twisted and then they embark upon their nasty ways.

 

They are stupid because anyone with any sense would not behave in such idiotic and nasty ways and indulge in such unrealistic pretence. Anyone with any sense knows that life is great (for all it's misery and strife), and wants the real deal.

 

And you hear the arguement that they are clever...............balderdash. Any cleverness is mechanical, the result of training.         These people are seriously lacking. I firmly am of the opinon that NPD is a result of stupidity (and it is stupidity because you never get very far with them in a discussion, them using one of an arsenal of techniques to evade what would reveal them as dimwits, which they employ, thinking they are being clever), but as I was saying, I firmly believe NPD is a result of stupidity given free rein by way of modern decadent society.

 

I just needed to vent this. But it is more than that, because it is truely what I believe, the result of much consideration. Am I alone in this thinking? Can anyione see what I mean? Has anyone else come to this conclusion that they are basically dimwits facillitated by modern decadent society, who have missed the plot and are too insecure about themselves to say so and ask someone?