World Domination

 

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Bisan unhon pa, di ton mag-utro…Sakto man sila pirme! Do you think those with controlling attitudes will reflect and change? That could be impossible!

Self-righteousness stems from a personality disorder, such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People who suffer from this illness tend to feel that their opinions, ethics, or views are always correct. Generally, they won’t make an attempt to listen or understand the views of another person (Conor, 2021).

You notice that these persons seem to control all things around them – their need to “have a say” on everything is so intense they often do not understand that there are things others prepared for; That there are things of which others are emotionally-attached. They would say: What a waste of time!

Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle goes as far as to describe the need to be right as a form of violence. At its mildest, it is inflexibility. At its height, it manifests as dominance. The compulsion to inflict our opinions of the world on another originates in fear. Its opposites are humility and compassion.

A dominant personality is a personality type that often leads themselves and others into action. It’s primarily defined by an overarching motivation for power and a sense of pride.

Gilette (2022) posits that dominance across many species is often associated with patterns of behaviors that involve intimidation, coercion, and aggression.

These types of personalities tend to dominate the people around them. They do not care about the feelings they may hurt since they are incapable of empathizing.

According to Dr. Nereida Gonzalez-Berrios, a board certified psychiatrist out of Houston, “As far as empathy and compassion are concerned, it is usually less than others,” she says. “They do not like to follow but prefer to lead.”

Organizations are full of these types. That is the main reason why there are those who prefer to leave their jobs than become a person suffering from a toxic environment.

Abusive behaviors in a relationship, which are always about power and control, can be signs of a mental health condition and not only a personality type.

A 2012 review from the National Library of Medicine into dominance behavior found dominant personality traits often overlapped with mania and narcissism.

So, communicating these to the culprit can be an exercise in futility. A medical intervention is needed.