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Susan Burgess's avatar

Gary you’re onto something. My buddy, the malignant narcissist, was an extremely handsome young man. But somewhere around 1965 everything changed. Now the girls started to look at the not classically handsome boys, the ones who smoked a bit of weed (not the conservative wing tip wearing scotch drinkers) and grew their hair out. The classically beautiful women/girls were not all the rage anymore either and they also became unhip.

Well, my friends, this infuriated my narcissist buddy to the ends of the world. The rules had changed and he was rabidly angry and inconsolable because that’s all he had, his looks.

So now he detests the ‘hippies’. He doesn’t get them. He hates that whole era. He feels left out in the cold where he was only moments before considered to be the hugely desirable golden boy of all time. To top it off he began to notice that guys who looked like him were being cast in movies as serial killers, not Shane, his childhood screen hero

That flipped a switch in him. He became djt’s twin in every way but I think he was headed that way very early in life like 4 or 5.

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GarySanDiego's avatar

Yeap. Some sociologist should do a study.

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David Holzman's avatar

If this guy is till your buddy, and you think there's a chance he could change, get him David Leonhardt's Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: The Nine Habits of Maximum Happiness.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

That’s kind of you, David.

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David Holzman's avatar

Thank you Susan. When potentially helping is as easy as writing a sentence, I just can't see a good reason not to. It's nudged me in a good direction.

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Susan Burgess's avatar

Excellent reasoning. Imagine if we all thought like that.

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David Holzman's avatar

It would be nice. But that's one of the nice things about TC's substack. Lot of good people here!

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TCinLA's avatar

There are indeed. I'm constantly and happily amazed.

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