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Epstein’s pattern of inveigling himself into power networks is strikingly familiar. I’ve met too many such operators both close-up and from a distance. Most are merely after money, but now I can’t help doing an unconscious double-take, looking for signs of darker currents.
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Networking in general is a tedious chore which is why most of us do the minimum we can get away with. To want to do a lot of it is like wanting to do a lot of laundry. Something weird there which doesn’t add up.
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Narcissistic personality disorder. I can almost imagine what delight he took in tricking and trapping scientists. How their falling prey to the same desires that ruled him lessened the shame.
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Yeah but I’m guessing in most cases of NPD that sense of control is just a side dish. The main course is whatever that access and entryism enables. In this case apparently laundering reputation and buying a sort of force field around his predatory activities.
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