Actually, Putin was an intelligence officer in GRU, not KGB – they are two different organizations. I agree all organizations are to this or that extent ponerized, but does that imply that KGB and GRU are 100% ponerized, comprising exclusively of clinical characteropaths, schizoids, asthenics?
I’m going for some shock here.
Is for a scientifically objective assessment of psychiatric diagnosis of essentially psychopathy of given individual enough to have several phrases on record;
n one of which he admitted, (could be with irony?), that let’s say if he had a choice to spend some time conversing and ‘friendicating’ with other world leaders like Bush or Blair, or Berlusconi; he would gladly ‘friendicate’ with Gandhi instead. I interpret his phrase about Gandhi this way; that he values his time, and aims to spend that little time he has on ‘friendicating’ in the most productive and emotionally friendly way possible. Besides, he shares the same neighborhood with film director and actor, Oscar laureate Nikita Mikhalkov, with whom he friendicates in very normal human way.
I think words which someone once said have to be matched with actions to rule out any even very shaky assessment at all. My mother more than once was telling me when actually I did something wrong: Okay, you are not my kid any longer! I refuse being your mother!’
Or if I tell my little kid: ‘don’t do this, or I will, you know, I will eat you!’ or in another situation, when I’m kissing his feet I tell him: ‘oh, you little toes are so-so yammy, I would eat them!’ , if somebody who doesn’t ‘like’ me, happens to record what I was saying, should I then be forcefully isolated from society because I’m a threat to society as a potentially dangerous ruthless cannibal eager to consume children for the dessert? If to take my words literally, at face value; i did admit to be loving to eat my son's body parts and if i said that they are tasty, i surely have eaten kids before that! So i am a body snatcher! My only save boat in this case is that I’m not a president or any other public figure, otherwise yellow press would label me as a cannibal on spot!
Shane said:
CarpeDiem, do you remember when Putin praised Olmert's "virility" on his having raped his staff members? Putin said, "What a mighty man he turns out to be! He raped 10 women - I would never have expected this from him. He surprised us all - we all envy him!" - followed by laughter. It was confirmed that he spoke these words by the Kremlin spokesperson.
Is that enough to diagnose someone as a clinical essential psychopath? Given his current occupation as a president he also has meetings with Rabbi of Russia Ber Lazar, who may be a Zionist, and maybe not.
In Russian there also is also a very popular expression 'to love to death'. Imagine what the world press would say if they have in record that he whispered these words in his wife's ear! She is Laurea Lode in Spanish literature, by the way, and the expression means to love very very much, as to death!!
Let’s analyze his last speech in Guatemala, whether it would permit to assess him as a clinical essential psychopath. Being a former intelligence officer, he is proficient in German, probably speaks it almost without accent. Let’s start that there was no necessity for him to appear in Guatemala to support a Russian bid, there were appropriate officials to do that. That means he had cancelled urgent meetings, etc. to fly to another continent to support a Russian bid. Then, there is an army of qualified simultaneous translators available, but, as you have seen, his speech in support of Russian bid for Winter Olympics 2014 was in English, and then he ended his speech in French, the official language of the int. Olympics Committee, to reinforce his message and to demonstrate his respect for the official language of Olympics.
You do know, that you can’t learn language in one day, you need to dedicate a lot of time to be able to convey any text at all to your audience. So, he by some miracle did found that time to learn English and French to be able to demonstrate his respect to audience. I think his coming and the effect of his speech was the winning key of success of Russia by 4 votes over S. Korea.
My question is did he do that with the goal to boost his self-image as die-hard guy in the eyes of world public? Did he do that because he genuinely wanted Russia to win the bid of Olympics?
Would an essential psychopath get himself into trouble of learning more or less 2 new languages to demonstrate his respect to the audience? That’s not to mean that essential psychopaths could/t be language proficient, I think assessment should come from analyzing intentions.
Let’s analyse available data with scientific approach. I mean, if I am standing before an audience and I am saying a statement in affirmative above the table; below that table and very neatly to me I should hold a heavy briefcase filled up to the neck with hard objective data to support my statement in affirmative, should that need arise. Otherwise if even one statement which I made publicly would be proven not to have an scientifically objective basis, there is a danger that anything other I ever said publicly would be disregarded to at least undervalued by association.
I’m not yelling: “take him down from there, as I think he is not an essential psychopath!’,
Could be he is.
Is for a scientifically objective assessment of psychiatric diagnosis of essentially psychopathy
of given individual enough to have several phrases on record?
What Lobaczewski would have to say about alleged essential psychopathy of Putin?