I wish there was a way to tell the companies that, because I’ve seen them cut into my brief moment of entertainment with their ad (usually awkwardly) that I’ve mentally blacklisted them and think LESS of their product not more.
Alas I am poor so no wallet voting applies.
You’re out of date,.the DSM 5 got a massive revision (TR), years ago.
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Oh shit here we go again
Just read the sections on Sociopaths and Psychopaths. They describe your average marketing department.
C suite also
There was a study, years ago, where they found that socio/psychopaths made up like 30% of all C-Suite employees. In the larger population, they make up less than 2%, and that’s including all partial diagnoses. Add onto that the fact that most upper-level staff at any major firm these days are dipshit Business Idiots who know fuck all about jack shit, and you get the modern irrational economy.
The presence of narcissism and sociopathy in the C-suite is due to selection bias, specifically for people with “bold” personality traits.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406658/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886919307007
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psychopathic-tendencies-help-some-people-succeed-in-business/
- https://marytaylorandassociates.com/news-insights/the-existence-of-sociopathy-in-business/
When you layer masking on top of that, you get a skilled individual that can navigate a lot of business situations. This all happens because they’re incredibly useful traits for making money, above all else. Ethics be damned.
According to the DSM-5, individuals with ASPD (edit: anti social personality disorder) exhibit a pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years. This pattern is manifested by at least three of seven specific behaviors, including failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for safety, consistent irresponsibility, and lack of remorse.
Added explanation, good point (should be there) and thanks 👍
Does everyone not have at least three of these behaviors? Or is that the joke? Or am I antisocial?
This is no joke that is the official dsm text. Of course an expert has to judge that, but of course you could be.
Or alternatively you can just be autistic and fucking hate random individuals and groups of people. I wish to lock Graham Hancock in an industrial freezer and watch his flesh turn to ice. But I also most likely have C-PTSD which most certainly isn’t helping with the autism, fun fact I was actually diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome circa 2002 because 2 year old me had that bad of a violent meltdown.
Well hello there fellow Autist.
Ah well I mostly don’t hate random people but more all of them and some specifically 😁.
Eh it’s moreso the side effect of being over exposed to pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and cults broadly speaking. Makes one really appreciate folks who just kinda exist and want to do their best. My bloodlust is firmly directed at those who through stupidity, malice, or mental illness would harm mankind especially it’s knowledge and understanding.
Well but those running along also being really harmful are a lot in numbers and not any better… Sometimes (in part involuntary, but still!) worse.
I see it more like upstream contamination of a river, sure the day to day folks can be harmful together but when push comes to shove it’s a lot easier to just deal with the source of the damage itself. Easier to cut the head off the snake, if it turns into a hydra just go full scorched earth and destroy it outright IE slag the Tiktok servers and shoot YouTube execs until they remove shorts.
ASPD, is that Advertising/Sales Personality Disorder?
Here’s what my glaring personality disorder taught me about B2B sales.
Close the post, we got an answer.
My pet theory after observing friends and acquaintances growing up into adults (and hearing them speak on the subject) is that such behaviour can coincide with seriously considering suicide, but not going through with it (or failing). This can give a huge rush and sense of renewal, a new life where you don’t have to care about others anymore and are no longer bound by morals. Similar to how I’ve heard incel acquaintances describe being “black pilled”.
For those that don’t know, ASPD = Anti Social Personality Disorder. Symptoms of ASPD can surface before age 15.
Bingo.
How do I turn my disorder into cash money?
I think you have to go to the NSFW websites for that
Disability payments.
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If advertising to you didn’t work then advertisers wouldn’t be doing it.
Of course it works, it is hacking your brain into buying shit you don’t need.
It works on everyone who is human.
Doesn’t make it any more moral though.
Is that not what I said?
Not all advertising is equal. Yes, increasing awareness pays off.
That doesn’t mean your product putting a one minute ad up on YouTube that gets pasted in front of a 10 second cat video will have a positive response.
why are you seeing ads on youtube?
God…whenever I use the device of a relative and see that there are no ad blockers on their yt, it is literally unwatchable. 90 second ads every 90 seconds, I swear, interrupting what’s going on in the video mid sentence. I have absolutely zero clue how people tolerate that.
People complain about cable TV ads, but unfiltered YouTube is absolutely an abomination to mankind.
Why did we suddenly change from “thinking that advertising is fine is absolutely a mental illness” to “advertisers can successfully cause tons of damage”?
I don’t see a lot of reasons for such a shift away from the point.
As a young adult man, seeing an ad for diapers designed for elderly women doesn’t entice me to buy them. I’m also not buying a new car after seeing every ad for a car. I know of Liberty Mutual by way of their advertisements but I’m not in the market for buying an emu so they won’t get my business.
Advertising does not work equally well on everyone. It’s literally a numbers game.
A disorder must either somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job or staying out of prison, or causes significant distress. If you’re explicitly making tons of legal money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.
so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?
i don’t think that’s quite right.
He is half right but he forgot the “or negatively impact others’ lives” half.
A narc doesn’t care about others. Its their disorder.
When it comes to the DSM-V, that’s how it works. You must have a functional impairment.
there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?
Only if it makes you unable to develop stable relationships. DSM doesn’t pathologize being an asshole. That’s normal human functioning.
So you’re saying it’s not a disorder until we make it one wiyh violence?
