He reminds me of a child of friends; when he was four or five, the parents told me that they had taken him to a child psychologist who told them that his problem was that “he is bored with his toys, he is just too bright for what is available on the market”. That was 35 years ago — the now middle aged man is now in his 40s, has worked at a series of odd jobs that are low-paying with no future and really has accomplished something close to nothing and is quite unhappy. I believe this is partly the fault of the self-esteem movement where everyone wins and gets a prize and no one is superior to anyone else in any skill or accomplishment, no matter how hard they work (with the exception of pro sports). But it results in a lot of disappointed people, who have been told how great and wonderful they are their entire lives and when their performance and capabilities don’t come close to measuring up to their own expectations, they get frustrated and angry at the general populace who don’t see that the emperor is wearing a gold-encrusted frock but instead has no clothes.
I do tend to agree with this evaluation. What the lefty psychologists who perpetuated the faux self-esteem movement never accounted for was that children from a young age, must have the experience of real accomplishment(s) and real failure(s), if they are to be able to discern what they can contribute to society and when they need to “let the ball go” to someone better than themselves for the whole team to achieve.
Real accomplishment and real failure feed and grow the imagination and make a person better. All this generally must happen when they are in their formative years. If it doesn’t ...we get a whole population that is angry/frustrated and doesn’t know how to achieve anything, let alone real greatness. This, this is 0bama who doesn’t know how to play well with other people, instead he relies on his phone and his pen. This is his whole “leading from behind,” because he doesn’t know how to lead a team or coach a team. And to his advantage, neither do any of his other sycophants. So this is where we get liberal bullies from: Pelosi (vote before finding out what’s in it), Lois Lerner, Eric Holder and a whole host of regime counterparts that work together like the grinding of teeth.