“Evil is not committed by people who feel uncertain about their righteousness, who

question
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their own motives, who worry about betraying themselves.
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The evil in this world is committed by the spiritual fat cats, by the Pharisees of our
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own day, the self-righteous who think they are without sin because they are unwilling
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to suffer the discomfort of signi cant self-examination.”
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M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie Most politicians proclaim themselves to be
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exemplars of virtue, but many of them compulsively lie, engage in corruption, censor
and demonize
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those who disagree with them, and enact policies that destroy society.
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Are such politicians aware of their hypocrisy?
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Do they truly believe in the morally righteous self-image they try to portray?
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In this video, drawing from the insights of the American psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, we
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explore the psychology of malignant narcissism in order to better understand the evil
that
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has infected modern politics.
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M. Scott Peck de nes evil as “that force, residing either inside or outside of human
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beings, that seeks to kill life or liveliness.”, or as he continues:
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