I am reminded of Dagny "I'm so proud of sleeping with a married man which is totally OK because I want him and I'm a heroic businesswoman!" Taggert. Then again most of the so-called heroes in Atlas Shrugged are similarly sociopathic.
If Nazism is a perfect narcissistic philosophy, objective is a perfect sociopathic philosophy. Also, evidence suggests that sociopaths are disproportionately represented in the upper levels of business.
With guidance and boundaries she could have learned to value the people around her and engage with them in less exploitative ways, if only for her own self-interest. While that's not strictly being a good person, it would have made her at least socially functional.
Exactly. Most sociopaths are able to function in society with a minimum of criminality. They're miserable to have in a family, but most learn not to transgress society's boundaries at least to the extent that they get caught. Azula could have grown up to be like that, but Ozai taught her another way.
That's sort of an explosive thing to say and Miller isn't known for moderation in her writing, but I can see her point that it is abusive to make a child associate the fear of being violated with the excitement of connecting to a parent. My theory is that this association broke Azula's already tenuous grasp on consequence, and ultimately caused her to crash all the harder when consequence, like gravity, reasserted itself.
Part of the reason that Azula apologists think she was sexually abused (which makes no sense given how bad she is at being the vamp) is because they don't think what we saw was bad enough to make her into who she became. And I'm like, are you kidding, what we saw was plenty horrible. Sexual or not, it was definitely sufficient to drive her over the edge.
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Date: 2014-04-08 01:51 pm (UTC)If Nazism is a perfect narcissistic philosophy, objective is a perfect sociopathic philosophy. Also, evidence suggests that sociopaths are disproportionately represented in the upper levels of business.
With guidance and boundaries she could have learned to value the people around her and engage with them in less exploitative ways, if only for her own self-interest. While that's not strictly being a good person, it would have made her at least socially functional.
Exactly. Most sociopaths are able to function in society with a minimum of criminality. They're miserable to have in a family, but most learn not to transgress society's boundaries at least to the extent that they get caught. Azula could have grown up to be like that, but Ozai taught her another way.
That's sort of an explosive thing to say and Miller isn't known for moderation in her writing, but I can see her point that it is abusive to make a child associate the fear of being violated with the excitement of connecting to a parent. My theory is that this association broke Azula's already tenuous grasp on consequence, and ultimately caused her to crash all the harder when consequence, like gravity, reasserted itself.
Part of the reason that Azula apologists think she was sexually abused (which makes no sense given how bad she is at being the vamp) is because they don't think what we saw was bad enough to make her into who she became. And I'm like, are you kidding, what we saw was plenty horrible. Sexual or not, it was definitely sufficient to drive her over the edge.