Narcissism at Its Best (Trailer of Documentary by Peter Kolakowski)

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The speaker expressed a strong critical view of the creators of modern technology, particularly social media and artificial intelligence, labeling them as mentally ill and motivated by rejecting reality. They argued that social media platforms are designed to isolate individuals by reducing intimacy and exploiting loneliness for profit, employing psychological tactics to keep users engaged and disconnected from real-life relationships. The discussion highlighted concerns about the negative social impact of tech companies driven by profit at the expense of human connection. Narcissism

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  21. 05:23 The people who created modern technology are all mentally ill. All of them. The people who created social media are schizoids. We know their history. They’re schizoid, some of them narcissistic. The people who created artificial intelligence are malignant narcissists
  22. 05:41 and probably psychopaths. Modern technologies starting in the 1990s were created by mentally ill people. These mentally ill people gravitated to Wall Street. They gravitated to the high-tech scene. And when you see people now, the high-tech moguls and and tycoons and you
  23. 06:04 see how mentally ill they are. And I’m not only li referring to Elon Musk. When you see these people, you see that they are seriously mentally ill. Seriously. Like had they not been multi-billionaires, some of them would have been in a mental asylum. They’re really sick. And they
  24. 06:25 developed these technologies out of a rejection of reality. Some of them are utopians. They believe in a utopia of tech tech controlled and tech owned world. Some of them avoided reality by creating a simulation of society known as social media which is highly asocial.
  25. 06:47 Take for example social media. The core, the foundational principle of social media is that people should be completely isolated and have zero intimacy and I can prove it to you easily. If you have if you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, you spend time with them.
  26. 07:07 Time that you spend with your boyfriend is time that you don’t spend on Facebook. So, they’re losing money. Your intimacy is the greatest competitor of Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and so on. So they need to destroy your intimacy. They need to isolate you, atomize you
  27. 07:28 and convert you into um an eyeball and they need to enhance in you solypistic or solitude related activities such as conso consumption on teu surfing temo all alone and buying things. They need to encourage these behaviors in you and then they can say we connect you
  28. 07:52 with each other. Yes. And any minute you spend in contact with real people, your children, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your friends, other people in political parties, your community, any minute you spend with real people is a dollar less
  29. 08:09 in the profits of these companies and they have every incentive to program you. And this this they when they designed the platforms, they hired the services of psychologists. It’s a fact. So they created the platforms to automize you then to take advantage of
  30. 08:27 your increasing loneliness which they have created and to discourage you to look for solutions elsewhere. Now this to me sounds like seriously psychopathic
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Bonus Consultations with Sam Vaknin or Lidija Rangelovska (or both) http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/ctcounsel.html

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http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com (Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited)

http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/cv.html (Biography and Resume)

Summary

The speaker expressed a strong critical view of the creators of modern technology, particularly social media and artificial intelligence, labeling them as mentally ill and motivated by rejecting reality. They argued that social media platforms are designed to isolate individuals by reducing intimacy and exploiting loneliness for profit, employing psychological tactics to keep users engaged and disconnected from real-life relationships. The discussion highlighted concerns about the negative social impact of tech companies driven by profit at the expense of human connection. Narcissism

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