RE: The Passive-Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder (P APD) Case Study: Jim Choate
---------- From: aluger@hushmail.com[SMTP:aluger@hushmail.com] [...] The passive-aggressive (negativistic) personality disorder is located in Appendix B: "Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study" of the DSM- IV. Millon (1996, p. 198) proposes a comprehensive concept of a negativistic personality. He asserts that the negativistic personality reflects both this general contrariness and disinclination to do as others wish but also
presents with a capricious impulsiveness, an irritable moodiness, and an unaccommodating, fault-finding pessimism.
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The general criteria of a personality disorder coupled with at least five of the following is sufficient to warrant a diagonsis of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: procrastination and delay in completing essential tasks -- particularly those that others seek to have completed; unjustified protests that others make unreasonable demands; sulkiness, irritability or argumentativeness when asked to do something that the individual does not want to do; unreasonable criticism or scorn for authority figures; deliberately slow or poor work on unwanted tasks; obstruction of the efforts of others even as these individuals fail to do their share of the work; and avoidance of obligations by claiming to have forgotten them.
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This author believes that Subject Choate is unlikely to seek treatment individually and should be compelled to seek treatment in whatever fashion is most likely to produce results.
Superb flame. Of course, from the point of view of 'external' viewers, a great many of the subscribers on cypherpunks appear to exibit PAPD with respect to their attitudes towards government authority. Jim is unusual in that his resentment is also directed towards the consensus position on how people should behave on the list (the closest thing to a 'authority' which exists in cypherpunks). Peter Trei
Resentment? I'm not resentful. I'm engulfed in a melange of shock, horror, and hillarity. The insanity of man against man, and the hoops they'll jump through to get satisfaction. After all, it's not entertainment but satisfaction that is what drives mankind. What consensus might that be? The 'crypto-anarchy' good-old-boy consensus? The Freidman'esk "making money justifies all wrongs" contingent? The "It's wrong they regulate any of my actions, but I'm going to regulate yours."? team. Or perhaps "I'm too damn lazy to start my own node and take the heat but I'll sure bitch and whine when others don't do as I say" clan? There is no authority on 'the' list because there are 8 lists that share a common backbone (by consensus of the operators, not users, I might add). The only parties who have authority to impose any sort of list behaviour regulations are the specific operators of those mail reflectors. We have several that limit what goes out to their subscribers, I don't believe we have any that limit what their subscribers may submit. However, that is clearly within the scope of the current agreement. Start a list and filter both ends. A 2-way list if you will ;) I would think that a group so sophisticated as you claim to be, and as motivated by money would recognize the simple dicta "Money speaks". What you boys are pissed off 'bout is that it's my money doin' the speakin' and it ain't what ya expected. The majority of subscribers don't ever post, they sit there and get the occassional techie item and sit about laughing their asses off. I'm glad they find joy and humor in this. It is after all hilarious at times. Do what you will, start your own list, filter me, start another node, keep bitching. Whatever. If I have something to say I'm going to say it. I'll do my best to keep it short and too the point. I don't make any promise it will be related to any point you might have however. After all, how serious can you take somebody who is more concerned about the word 'whore' and 'police' in the same sentence than the fact that the sentence is even being considered at all? Pull your head out of your ass. If western civilization is going to tumble down because of my .sig then it's already dead. Duh. On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Trei, Peter wrote:
Jim is unusual in that his resentment is also directed towards the consensus position on how people should behave on the list (the closest thing to a 'authority' which exists in cypherpunks).
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