• goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Say what you will about participation awards, but at least their recipients actually participated in the activity in question. I don’t know what this is.

    • mrmacduggan@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      I theorize he is trying to get into heaven (???) and he might believe that the only thing that could cancel out all his sins is to become the Nobel Peace Prize winner (???) through violence (???)

      None of this makes any sense if you don’t have severe dementia.

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        1 day ago

        I don’t think it’s dementia that did that, I think it’s a very specific type of psychological abuse that results in thinking that way. I suspect it’s from his father encouraging him to be a bully, placing high expectations, and not caring enough to watch him actually earn awards, just checking that he has them. This is all in line with the childhood his niece described in her book Too Much and Never Enough.

        A childhood like that could easily shape one’s understanding of achievement away from “doing the thing” to “having the rewards/symbol of having done the thing”. And if someone thinks having the trophy is more important than having won the competition I don’t see any reason they would feel the divine would think any differently. And I think even pre dementia he’d slowly drift from “I have the 2025 Nobel peace prize” to “I won the 2025 Nobel peace prize” slowly reshaping his memories until he doesn’t remember how he got it.

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        1 day ago

        Exactly. The prize itself is a joke even before this colossal self-own.