Puzzling People by Thomas Sheridan

Author:Thomas Sheridan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Relationships
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2012-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

A Self-Impressed, Self-Publicist

How the psychopath loves to pontificate endlessly about his favourite subject – him or herself. All done to a captive audience while the psychopath’s hand holds aloft an imaginary baton, conducting his or her out-of-tune invisible orchestra so we can be captivated by their own spectacular glory generously shared with all and sundry. Even past the point where no one is really listening anymore.

Psychopaths can for many years pose as professionals, often as ‘consultants,’ even when they are not fully qualified to practice any career. There may be some truth in that they spent a year or two in college before they were ejected on the eve of graduation under suspicious circumstances. Not that you’ll get the real story. Everyone else at the college was the problem, not the psychopath. Never mind, they will still parade themselves as qualified experts on the verge of accepting the Nobel Prize on any given subject and you’ll believe it because they lie so well. For a while. Or until their shoddy work practices and incompetence has someone doing a background check on them.

Psychopaths are either superficial, dynamic ‘hotshots’ or parasitic wastrels – their hallmark is an incredible ego regardless of their achievements, or lack thereof. Sooner or later, the psychopath will make the mistake of preying on the wrong person, or pushing their scams too far. There is a Bengali proverb which states that the most placid tiger has the sharpest claws when provoked, and so the psychopath – the eternal moral and intellectual imbecile and devoid of creative intelligence – always ends up being undermined and demolished by the one they least expect.

Many psychopaths claim to be artists, poets or investigative journalists, ‘proving’ to their potential victims that they are ‘wise, cultured, enlightened or sensitive,’ but they could never be real artists, poets or journalists for the simple fact that the only thing they ever create is lies. Without the instruction book or video, they cannot develop their ‘art and insight’ beyond basic mimicry, but they always believe their mimicry alone is adequate.

Developing an actual skill takes more time than a transient scam requires and they never comprehend that plagiarism is always revealed. They have learned to mimic their art in the same way they have learned to mimic human behaviour. They can read the score, but can never feel the music. They get sloppy and they slip up. People around them begin to realise that something isn’t right, and begin to scrutinise the psychopath. The penny then begins to drop…

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