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nah this is bullshit. i actually recently watched a sarah z video essay about exactly why this is bad and it’s a pretty compelling case.
in short, humans are shit and the basis on which most people are called a narcissist is more biased and tenuous than most would ever admit which is problematic if we’re going to ruin people’s lives over their perceived faults.
You are very lucky not to have experienced this firsthand. I'm not so lucky, and I can tell you it is real. They get off on deception and power over others, but that's also their weakness - it's a compulsion. While they imagine themselves to be masters of manipulation and control, the urge to gaslight and fuck with people is so great that they typically change jobs, locations and social groups pretty often, depending on how sophisticated (or lucky) they are. They get caught because they can't help themselves. If they see an opportunity to manipulate someone, they will take it - they overestimate their ability to fool people.
Here is what it looks like, in case you were wondering
Article goes on to say the same smirk is also a non-narcissist's sign of satisfaction at seeing justice served.
So will you be the Psych 101 student who is suddenly a psychoanalyst and labels people because they smirk, or will you understand that something you saw on lemmy doesn't equip you to judge anyone?
This goes right up there with stock chart technical analysis. "It's definitely this. Though it can also be this. Or that. And it depends on the person. And the context. And...
It's so messy/noisy with variables, stuff like this just gives people false confidence that they know who/what someone is or what something represents. Psuedoscience
And micro expression analysis to prove deceit.
"expression analysis" - 2025 phrenology
seen this with jesse watters, he always make that sneering or smirk when he does his segment. and it was same with some low-level right wingers on yotube.
The thing about narcissists is they are never as clever or subtle as they think they are. They get away with everything because their behaviors dysregulate decent people and make it easier to manipulate them. And while it’s obvious, in these little pleased gestures and exaggerated emotions, it still hurts to be manipulated and used. We seek closure to these events, they use that motivation to string the victims along. Terrible disorder.
And yet, for some reason, in our system it seems that narcissism is almost a prerequisite to becoming the leader of large publicly traded companies or indeed an entire nation.
I literally just learned this in a Ted talk that youtube fed me yesterday or the day before. Here's a fantastic example of that smirk.
Ted talks used to be amazing. Also, bringing up "post truth society" 13 years ago, before knowing how bad it would eventually get.
Used to be amazing. Then they asked everyone to replicate.
Oh no. I smile all the time. I guess I'll die
Ah fuck I think I'm a narcissist.
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I learned this one a few year ago, the hard way.