Together we have diagnosed this very dangerous condition that is this man pretending to lead Fiji at this time. Here are a few links for you to try in your own time. Meantime, Bubu was given the following as part of the research group findings. Read and be very afraid for our country and our makabunas.
Psychologically speaking, CrankyFranky is what is called a ‘malignant narcissist.’Narcissist
DICTIONARY : excessive interest in oneself.
PRONOUNCIATION : Narsey sist
In a nutshell a narcissist is someone who has become hypnotized and entranced by their own inflated self-image, using others as objects to satisfy their own need of self-promotion. The narcissist believes he is the main character in his own movie. Everyone else has a supporting role-- everyone around him becomes a "type."
So the goal is to become the one with the most power and control. Hence, narcissists can be dogmatic ("adultery is immoral!") and hypocritical ("well, she came on to me, and you were ignoring me at home") all at the same time.
There is no right and wrong-- only right and wrong for them. Here's an exaggerated example: if they have to kill someone to get what they want, then so be it.
A narcissist also tries to keep up a certain "look" with a defining characteristic: a certain haircut; a type of clothing such as a uniform used to create an identity in his mind that he will spend a lot of energy keeping up. When narcissists murder or condone murder, they don't actually think what they're doing is wrong--they're saying, "I know it's illegal, but if you understood the whole situation, you'd understand... His pronouncements are a good example of this. Narcissists never feel guilt, shame or sin.
A ‘malignant’ narcissist, however, is a narcissist who reacts sadistically to others who don't support and enable their narcissism. For example, reacting with ruthless contempt for anyone who disagrees with them, always denying the accusation, trying to deflect blame and trying to destroy the messenger. Ultimately, a malignant narcissist wants to annihilate
anyone who in any way threatens their illusory self-image and self-serving agenda.Malignant narcissists can be very adept at manipulating others and clever at camouflaging their hostile agenda, even to themselves, and can appear to be very normal. To quote the great doctor of the soul, psychiatrist C. G. Jung “only a very small fraction of so-called psychopaths land in the asylum. Many of these so-called seemingly ‘normal’ psychopaths are drawn to positions of power.
Malignant narcissists are very skilled at entrancing others, at putting other’s under their spell and very talented at hooking others through their fear by using ‘mind-control’ techniques such as lying and propaganda to control them.
The narcissism of a person such as Bai evokes the narcissism inherent in his supporters, who identify with Bai’s seeming certainty and lack of doubt . This creates a very dangerous and pathological situation called “group narcissism,” in which a large group of people have dis-connected from their critical faculties and entrusted their power to their narcissistic leader. A good example of this is Ratu Nailatikau's erratic behaviour on TV when asked about Green. Did you notice that he looked and sounded just like Bai does ?
This is a perversely symbiotic, co-dependent relationship in which all members of the group are colluding with and enabling each other’s narcissism. For example, Bai, in his utter narcissism thinks that God speaks through him. Instead of being seen as deluded, his supporters reflect back to him that they, too, think that God speaks through him. This, of course, just reinforces Bai’s narcissistic delusion. Seeing Bai as God’s instrument concurrently fulfills in the Bai support camp their adolescent fantasy of having someone who is playing the role of the divine leader to protect them. This mutually interdependent and reciprocally reinforcing delusion is what is called a ‘collective psychosis.’
By playing with people’s fear, Bai hypnotizes people to give their power away to him. Unfortunately, by doing this he has hypnotized himself as well, which is to say he is deceiving himself in the process of his deceiving of others. Malignant narcissists are pathological liars. They are very adept at both lying and then believing their own lies. The conviction they carry in this act of self-deception can easily ‘entrance’ people. A malignant narcissist plays with people’s fears so as to gain their trust and control them, which is based on the abuse of power over others that is the signature of a true dictator.
At their core, a malignant narcissist’s desire is to dominate and have power over others. The perverse enjoyment of complete domination over another person(s), which involves transforming a person into an object (a ‘thing’), in which their freedom is taken away, is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Their sadism is a way of transforming their feelings of powerlessness and impotence into an experience of omnipotence.
A malignant narcissist hasn’t developed a sense of their own authentic self, which is why they are unable to be in genuine relationship with others - witness all the lasaituba afairs Bai has had over the years and the way he has tossed away any friendships he may have had. Psychologically, malignant narcissism is a very primitive and un-evolved state.
Because they don’t relate to other people as independent and separate from their own inflated, narcissist self, the malignant narcissist doesn’t respect other people’s boundaries. Their self-serving, narcissistic illogic allows them to justify, even in the name of God, transgressing other’s boundaries, be them an individual’s civil liberties, or another nation’s sovereignty. Interestingly enough, etymologically, the word “evil” is related to the word “transgress.”
Malignant narcissists are unable to feel empathy for others , have an overwhelming lack of genuine compassion, care only for themselves (therefore, are unable to genuinely mourn) , and are indifferent to other people’s suffering, all the while, though, professing their compassion. If they show grief, however, as master manipulators, it is only done if it is politically correct to do so and to their advantage. They are a true ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing.’ Malignant narcissists are themselves being used and manipulated like puppets on a string by the more powerful archetypal force. Becoming possessed by an archetype like this, to quote Jung, “turns a man into a flat collective figure, a mask behind which he can no longer develop as a human being, but becomes increasingly stunted.” Jung continues “Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbor, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas.” ( Recognise Aiyarse Kaiyum in all this ? How fortunate for Aiyarse that he stumbled upon such a madman.)
Malignant narcissists can seem confident and self-assured, but are, in reality, covering deep insecurities and fears through an inflated self-image. Intense feelings of revenge, fury and rage verging on insanity manifests when their fear is exposed, and their narcissism threatened. At the core of their process is self-hatred, as malignant narcissists split-off and dissociate from a part of themselves. Jung talks about this condition by saying it may even result in “a splitting of the personality, a condition in which quite literally one hand no longer knows what the other is doing…..Ignorance of one’s other side creates great insecurity. One does not really know who one is; one feels inferior somewhere and yet does not wish to know where the inferiority lies, with the result that a new inferiority is added to the original one.” A malignant narcissist falls into an infinite regression of being in denial about being in denial and hiding from their own lies. A malignant narcissist such as Bai is continually in a state of hiding from himself.
Malignant narcissists have contempt for and flagrantly violate the rule of law, which, in their inflation, they believe themselves to be above. “International law” Malignant narcissists, like a true bully, abuse their power simply because they can. They can endlessly ‘talk’ about taking responsibility, but they never genuinely face up to and become accountable for their actions. Malignant narcissists are unwilling and unable to experience their sense of shame, guilt or sin. This inability to consciously feel their ‘negative’ feelings is at the root of the dynamic in which they dissociate from their own darkness, blaming and ‘projecting the shadow’ out there onto some ‘other.’ This splitting-off and projecting out their own evil results in always having a potential enemy around every corner, which is why malignant narcissists tend towards paranoia. Malignant narcissists continually ‘need’ an enemy and will even create new ones to ensure that they don’t have to look at the evil within their own hearts. They react with aversion to the reflection of their own evil, going so far as to want to exterminate evil (or in Bai's case - "corruption") from the world. Ridding the world of corruption is an act that can never be attained, however, as by ‘projecting the shadow,’ malignant narcissists themselves become the very evil-doer that they see out there and are trying to destroy. Bai has become possessed by the very thing he’s fighting against.
Caught in the vicious cycle of the repetition compulsion of the traumatized soul, malignant narcissists create more of the very evil that they are fighting against, as is evidenced by the way Bai is "fighting corruption". He has become a terrorist in the way he has reacted to this . In essence, Bai is at war with and trying to destroy his own shadow, which is not only a battle that can never be won, but is a form of insanity. And he’s acting it out on the world stage.
Two other malignant narcissists, Hitler and Stalin carried out certain campaigns similar to Bai's "Clean-Up Campaign" which were attempts "to perfect the world by destroying the [projected] impurities." Another modern day malignant narcissist was none other than Saddam Hussein. If left in power, malignant narcissists ultimately destroy themselves and everyone around them.Malignant narcissists are what are called ‘necrophiles,’ in that their impulses are perversely directed against life, the spontaneity of which they are afraid of, and towards death and destruction, which they are secretly attracted to. To quote the psychologist Eric Fromm, this “severe mental sickness….represents the quintessence of evil; it is as the same time the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity.”
The ‘force’ used by malignant narcissists to achieve their ends, to use Simone Weil’s definition, has the capacity to turn a man into a corpse- literally. To quote Eric Fromm “Just as sexuality can create life, force can destroy it. All force is, in the last analysis, based on the power to kill. I may not kill a person but only deprive him of his freedom; I may want only to humiliate him…...behind all these actions stands my capacity to kill and my willingness to kill.“ Malignant narcissists have a sadistic ‘willingness to kill’ so as to protect their own self-serving delusions, which makes them particularly dangerous, as they will literally stop at nothing to hold onto the position of power they find themselves in. Malignant narcissists are murderers who are criminally insane.
Malignant narcissism is a deadly illness . However, it is an extremely dangerous situation if the malignant narcissist, like Bai, is in a position of power where he can create endless, unnecessary suffering and destruction.
If we fall under his spell and keep him as leader of this regime by not doing anything now, for another couple years or so , we would be in a situation similar to the Germans in WWII, who, to quote Jung “allowed themselves to be driven to the slaughterhouse by their leading psychopaths like hypnotized sheep.” It is time to wake up from our spell.
We need to do everything and anything in our power to remove Bai from office, for God’s sake, as well as our own.
