Christian Psychiatrist M. Scott Peck (1936 – 2005) wrote the definitive book on Barack Hussein Obama in 1983, although, of course, he never met him or mentioned him. The title of Peck’s book is “The People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil.” While Dr. Peck is more widely known for his best-selling “The Road Less Travelled,” his “The People of the Lie” remains one of the most important scientific contributions to the study of the origins of evil.
Dr. Peck connected evil people directly with the bane of malignant narcissism. To him, the evil are “the people of the lie,” deceiving others as they also build layer upon layer of self-deception (p. 66). I’ve seen this pathology close-up in the religious sphere. In the 1980s, untreated Viet Nam PTSD made me vulnerable to recruitment into a Pentecostal mind-control cult. No drinking, no drugs there, but ultimately the religious addiction became far worse. The preacher displayed malignant narcissism with delusions of grandeur on the Obama scale. He imagined that he had been chosen to usher in what he called “the final end-time revival before Christ’s return.”
From that experience, a careful study of Dr. Peck’s book, and a detailed analysis of the original Narcissus and Echo tale as related by Ovid, I recognized that pathological character type in Obama as soon as he appeared on the national scene. That understanding culminated in my May, 2009 piece “Narcissus and Echo: Obama and the Mainstream Media.” If Dr. Peck were alive today, I believe he would have referred to Obama and the Mainstream Media as an evil symbiosis, or in his own words as “a mutually parasitic and destructive coupling” (p. 137).
We need to take Dr. Peck’s “The People of the Lie” very seriously if we hope to overcome the evil in our midst. Below, I have taken the liberty to cite Dr. Peck as if he were writing about Obama as his prime example of malignant narcissism today.
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