Sychopants: self-seeking flatterer: Mr Schmee (Page 2 of 6)

My aunt who I've never met (my dad's sister Lynn) is bi-polar.  Reading the last few posts just reminded me of some things.  Back in highschool she used to get into regularly scheduled brawls.  She was so amped up all the time (before being diagnosed and put on Lithium) that she'd pick fights to keep herself entertained and to vent all that excess energy, and had so many it was like trying to keep track of a schedule.    She didn't like my mom either in highschool and I think they brawled a few times.     She had a kid by 17 and was finally diagnosed as Manic Depressive and medicated.   Years later my brother tells me this story of visiting with my dad's crazy family (his whole family's nuts, Lynn is the least of the problem actually!) and how Lynn calmly "mentioned" at the dinner table that she keeps cyanide pills in her purse in case she decides to finally kill herself.  !   "Hi, I'm crazy, pass the potatoes..."

Being bipolar is supposed to be a disorder, but for some it seems to be a natural mode of existence. I mean if your life directive involves learning consciously, then mental and emotional imbalances can only interfere. But if life is about being a feeder, then bipolar behavior could be optimal. The first can be cured, the second only suppressed.

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While thanking and praising someone honestly and succinctly is okay, notice how sycophants often make a public spectacle of their flattery and yet their words reveal hints of insincerity. Maybe they are trying to integrate into a group by going out of their way to praise whoever the group supports. Maybe they are buying social perks by nestling themselves beneath the umbrella of authority. Maybe they hate the person they are praising but are puffing up a false front out of denial or deception. Maybe they have been tapped to elevate a target with lavish praise in order to build resentment in others and ultimately provoke the target's crucifixion. Or if sincere, maybe they are too giddy and inconsiderate to be more modest and private in their praise.

All I know is that overblown flattery given in front of others either increases the STS dynamic if the leader is narcissistic and his followers weak, or sabotages a balanced dynamic if the leader is honest but some of his group members are vulnerable to pangs of programmed animosity.

From my expereince, a sycophant will tune in on your weaknesses, eventually. Praise is usually a set-up.  Other tactics they use is making pajorative comments about their superior to discover your response, and pack it away for later use. "You said"...is a favorite. They will get you to commit to something so they can hold you to a higher standard, thus justifying later reprisals. A true sycophant has a meaness under their facade, a void born of revenge from the perception of being slighted by popular people; meaness usually adds to disfunctionality in their personal lives.

With subtlety, they speak with a subliteral language that can be intuited. Within about 10 minutes I can spot their style.  Compassion and empathy are feined, so if you are atuned to life's unconscious signals you will feel them, and their cunningness. They are so used to building people up, that they have developed a habit, a static pattern. These are innovative people, but not creative by any realistic means;  not in a disciplined way that a truely sensitive person would understand from experience--they are mediocre at best. They do not listen to classical music in private, nor truely understand art or poetry, or have an ability to conceptualize three to four dimensions in their minds; these are all communications that excite the soul. Like the malignant narcissist, they rely on taking ideas and energy from a donor and embellishing it with their charm and grandiosity. They will paint you a wonderfully unrealistic picture, and your narcissism will bite like a pike. They do not do well alone; and groups can usually sort them out after awhile.  Their security needs come from control, and doling out spirit-killing  news.

I thought by now that a few people would have found discrepancies in the thread title. What... do Great Whites scare you?

"Small fish swim in schools; the Great White Shark swims alone."
~~carefulcarpenter

titmouse--
You could be describing Matrix agents or organic portals from the traits you've
mentioned.  At any rate, their prime function seems to be causing trouble.

As montalk pointed out in one of his articles (or was it Corissa Conti?) that the
real humans tend to hang together in groups separate from the OP's in any
corporate structure.  The real humans, sensing the subtle differences and
witnessing the corporate back-stabbing that the "others" do find themselves
only able to confide in their own kind.

Brings to mind a quote from Eliphaz Levi:

"The soul breathes in something unwholesome
        when in the company of fools or knaves."

Stepping out of the present and thinking back to when I was a kid, I had such an amazing time.  I would be able to play make-belife non stop for hours, with or without props.  And then something happened... 

It started around grade 6/7/8 when all of a sudden school wasn't about "learning" but about gossip and populairity.  Not to put the blame on school, but it was a major influence at the time.  All of a sudden we (as a grade) stopped playing games at recess and started standing in circles talking.. about what?  It's like a major shift in my life, and that whole period (about 5 years) became a blurr.  I remember some good times, but most of the experiences were empty, or maybe just too full of junk that I forgot the background of silence.  And this slow process became reality once I hit high school.  It really is a bunch of lies comtemplating on the subject.

But if not for that experience, I would have not begun to look inside.

It seems so ironic... the world's structures are built so perfectly for control, but its through that very control that freedom is found.  The world is so bent on looking outside, when all that is needed is to look inward.

So simple!

What's interesting to me is that sychophants fit into the "normal " world we are sold so well. In my experience, bipolar people are not the ones who are the sychophants for the most part, although they may be. A bipolar person who wants
to be ill and use their illness to create drama thus feed the MCS would also have to be someone who could be classified as a sociopath. There is a universal insanity of so called "health" and normalcy which is the farthest thing from a healthy mentality.
Just because someone is labelled as bipolar doesn't mean they are sychophants or MCS pawns. My impression is that the MCS can make people bipolar . I'm not condoning these manipulators, and there are those who just don't care, whether ill or not, but alot of people with mental illnesses are so stigmatized that talking about it is the last thing they would ever do.
All people with mental illness, so-called or factual,do not fall under the same umbrella, any more than would mentally healthy people.  It's more than likely that people who are wanton
and irresponsibe about how they are bipolar are actually organic portals who are lying
in order to gain an excuse to be irresponsible, and "sympathy." But they seldom succeed as well as the common secret psychopath;due to their obvious imbalance
they will be gotten rid of while the truly insane ( and not many people realize that insanity can look like sanity) are running the show. To me, the MCS is planting these people in order to keep sincere and brilliant "mentally ill" people who are "sane in an insane world" down, in order to make sure that they are never healed of their deep wounds, are stigmatized and torn down until their illness is worse.  Then after all that, when the shit hits the fan, you come to realize that the quiet crazies were right all along, and not so crazy. I'm convinced the worst drama queens and sychophants know exactly what they are doing...it's not an effecient system for the
MCS to have its agents go on the fritz with emotional problems all the time. It might be done occasionally, but most of the things that are done by MCS controlled people are willfull, deliberate and calm...done by a healthy human animal with no
conscience. It's not something that can be explained in orthodox diagnostic terms.

Look at people who are a bit too perfect...It's "see how NORMAL I am, see how
healthy" and they don't go near anything even remotely unconventional or controversial. It's become hip and chic to be bipolar, perhaps, in the same way
it was hip and chic to be addicted to heroin. The truth is that one or two out of millions are encouraged or allowed to be glamourized or lauded for their "cool"
mental problems. The rest suffer in silence and are often abused.

No matter what the situation or who the person is , whatever their mental condition
, one should never put up with ANY guilt trips, sad stories, shocking confessions,
etc. "Look at me I'm wacko." I don't buy it. It's not like that. People who say these things are really a bunch of fakes, or they are exaggerating some nugget, some hook word, some emotional trigger, in order to really do alot of damage to alot of unsuspecting people.

Having said this, there was one bipolar person I dealt with who was every kind of poison mentioned here, and then some, and I was as unsuspecting as can be. He
was, in hindsite, a rather pitiful shell of a person who'd been inhabited by malevolent forces and destroyed .  A distinct if rare evidence
of one of the ways the controllers work, unfortunately.

They want to control our lives...get inside our heads and mess us up, place crazy
making people in our paths who are impossible to work with. It's all been specifically planned to play on our worst fears. One of our deepest fears is to go
crazy, and they know that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression_management