Can Anyone Guess What This Is?
-- Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity.
-- Decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep).
-- More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking.
-- Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing.
-- Distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli), as reported or observed.
-- Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation.
-- Excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments).
-- Decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep).
-- More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking.
-- Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing.
-- Distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli), as reported or observed.
-- Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation.
-- Excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments).
An OINO - Objectivist in name only.
They preach "Oh I know" but to reality they say "Oh no".
If you have a need for perfection, I suggest that you promote a fictional character. Once in office he or she will never make a mistake. Why? Because he or she doesn't exist.
Dr. Thomas Szasz famously argued for the protection of individuals who are not statistically "normal" in their behaviors. "Normal" is after all, a statistical statement, not a moral judgment.
Or the founder of Kinkos.
Or me.
On a side note, there's a book my doctor recommended, which I personally find very useful for understanding how neurotransmitters affect how we feel and function. (My approach personally is to try to address problems at their root, providing my body and brain what they need, in order to function properly.) The book is called "Mood Cure," by Julia Ross, and might be something you all want to check out. Neurotransmitters are constantly being created out of proteins in our bodies, and are constantly being used. Stressors from diet, excessive work, stress, low hormones (i.e. with aging), etc.--all have the ability to deplete some of these precious things beyond our capability to restore them. OTC supplements like 5-HTP and GABA, when carefully and intelligently used with target nutrients, can help restore what our brains and bodies need, to feel better. Just know that most doctors know as little about these as they do about nutrition, since their focus is generally directed toward finding the drug to match the symptom. I'm a strong believer in self-education, but it's also important to find a really good anti-aging doctor and/or a really good ND (by really good, I mean, one who does research on their own, is passionate about their field, and is not afraid to think outside the A.M.A. box).
Then there is the brain damaged compulsive liar, Marxist devotee, more divider than uniter, possible abused spouse who defends violent acts of spouse, corrupt, will do anything for cash.
So what are a few character flaws listed in the post? The intended one in the post has good intentions, and is not PC, has a degree in economics. I'll give it a try over the two listed above.
My standard answer for most anomalies in human behavior.
Liked Beck when he was on FOX TV.
Lately he's gone loony tunes.
He's went from investigative journalist on some important topics to self-styled amateur (and very shallow and wrong) populist philosopher trying lead a Pied Piper movement and personality cult, as if reasonable people should care anymore.
I cited his name in this thread because the opening post is a pretty good description of him.