Is it because Anheuser-Busch is hacking my phone and I've been filming discussions about why it's good not to drink alcohol?
Charlie Puth isn't a run-of-the-mill, narcissistic, self-centered, ignorant celebrity. He is actually somewhat less narcissistic than the average celebrity, at least about his looks although not about his talent, with which he is obsessed and because of which he has set himself above everyone else in the world.
What makes me think he's a sociopath?
-He tells an astonishing number of lies. He has a story for everything. He can't keep track of the contradictory things that he has said about everything he could think of to lie about during interviews, primarily about his relationships and the inspirations for his music, but he'll lie about anything. Maybe he even enjoys saying every last thing he can think of and the fact that nobody bothers to set his stories next to each other where the glaring discrepancies and fabrications are obvious. He doesn't seem to lie for a reason, not even for a nefarious reason, not to achieve a goal or avoid punishsment. He seems to lie for the sake of lying, because he likes manipulating and tricking people.
-He keeps a continual eye on power hierarchies, although he doesn't understand them past the most superficial level, can't predict their fluctuations and is so lacking in integrity that he takes them at face value without ever considering that hierarchies, like every other social system, are made of people who can and often do change their minds, their feelings and their decisions. If he thinks he can get away with something, he does it. If what seems to him like a sudden
fluctuation occurs that puts his behavior from one day into an unexpectedly bad light the next day, he grovels. If another fluctuation occurs which makes him think that he can revert to his previous behavior, it's back with a vengeance. Right and wrong are vague concepts in his thought process about exerting power and control over other people.
-He likes causing pain. He likes observing others' helplessness. His cruelties aren't just provoked by aggression or guided by peer pressure, although if the peer pressure were absent of cruelties his behavior would be absent of cruelties to the extent that absenting them would serve his social and professional interests.
As far as I know, the conventional wisdom about sociopaths is that they are incurable. I don't know that I believe that, considering the way that the mental health care system diagnosed me with at least 5 different disorders over the decades and did as much damage to me as it did good. However, this decade of moral implosion by the world's power structure has brought out the worst in people everywhere that it has had influence.
If racism or another form of bigotry were as socially accepted as misogyny, he would be openly, viciously bigoted in those ways. It's not personal. He would do this to anyone if he thought he could get away with it.
