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• Entire world view revolves around the self
• Exaggerated self-importance and authority (without expertise)
• Ongoing demand for delusional admiration
• Expectation of special favors and total compliance
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• Pathological attacks on imagined competition from fear of humiliation
• Arrogant behavior due to bottomless insecurity
• Inability to recognize the needs and feelings of others
• Primary motivation is self interest
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• Belief that greed is the highest value instead of humankind.
• Belief that pursuit of profits will lead to the most ethical results
• Belief that fortune 100 monopoly over our economic system is a "free market”
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• Belief that massive income inequality is merit-based and normal
• Belief that democracy (one person, one vote) is "mob rule”
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• Belief that a small group of wealthy individuals have a moral standing to rule the majority
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• Belief that this value system should be enforced by any means necessary including authoritarianism, disinformation and violence
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• Belief that any effort to coordinate and share resources is immoral and “communist"
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• Belief that this value system is orderly, safe and secure
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The cure:
• To recognize there are no "normal" relations with the extremism of materialism.
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• Belief that working to uplift human kind will lead to the most ethical and advanced society.
• Belief that money and profits are there to support and be of service to the pursuit of human values.
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• To ensure all Americans have basic healthcare and a minimal income so nobody is living on the edge.
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• To open economic markets to greater participation, healthy competition and innovation
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• To recognize that a revenge model of justice is primitive and does not promote peace.
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