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Ol Janx Spirit

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16. The intellectual infant doesn't even realize the classic use of flattery to manipulate him.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:13 PM

Dec 2025

It is profoundly dangerous.

And some may say, "he does realize it and welcomes it because it gets him what he wants. He uses flattery on others all the time to manipulate them, so how could he not know when flattery is being used on him?"

I've seen no evidence of that at all. He truly appears to believe every lie he is told about his greatness while being fully aware that he lies profusely about the greatness--or lack thereof--of others in order to manipulate them.

This is a profoundly broken person that requires the fake adulation to feed the Narcissus' pool in his fragile little mind. Self-awareness is for everyone that is not the center of the universe.

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