Clocking functional destruction in the specific psychological motivations of individuals high in dark tetrad traits:
•Narcissism (both grandiose and vulnerable, which I refer to here as auto-victimization for clarity)
•Machiavellianism
•Psychopathy
•Sadomassochism
Just for reference, I don’t believe that most people understand the difference between active compulsion to instigate chaos and destruction, and more cliché stereotypes about the social and moral implications of these personality factors.
For instance, I don’t automatically think of psychopaths as categorically “evil”—although they certainly can be. They may be violent, amoral, calculating (or impulsive), and lacking sympathy, but this alone does not construct a persona whose core compulsion is INFLICTING HARM AND DISRUPTION onto other humans, necessarily.
I sense that often psychopathy is organized around instrumental morality, and so often seeks status or fulfillment based on environmental qualifiers. This is a potentially dangerous character, but not outright EVIL.
To be truly compelled by a desire to destroy and disrupt others, and your environment more existentially, you need some sense of:
narcissistic grandiosity and entitlement (felt as auto-victimization, or woundedness by assumption),
antisocial codependency (often structured as Machiavellianism),
an annihilatory sense of complex existential resentment (the world would be better off to have never existed at all),
and perhaps most counterintuitively, these traits compounded by sadomassochistic fantasies of totalization and un-birth (sadomassochism literally means to eat and to be eaten)—
and in turn an ingrained fixation on transformative lifelessness (the pleasure garnered from witnessing cruelty, failure, persecution, and suffering—or the painful transition from organic life and wellness to a succumbing of overpowering and merciless external forces—abuse, captivity, restriction, infliction, and bodily/moralistic damages).
Every person is a microcosm, whether victim or victimizer. The whole world is encompassed in an individual’s unique perception.
