'Gram the Grownup #4 Alexander Mercouris

[Roshan]

And wtf happened to this guy ?

watching everything collapses, from Mariupol to the dollar, almost eagerly.

Whatever happened to him I presume to be the reason he's eager for the West to collapse.

Go find out. He has no wiki article but you have one detail about his life, and like I said I promise you both entertainment and distress in spades.

(But first fix the verb and put it under 'causatives').Edit: Vincent

[Roshan]

Oh, sorry, I see you already found out. Missed that.

Agony, agony, dream, ferment, and dream. This is the world, my friend --Federico Garcia Lorca, 'Ode to Walt Whitman'

He's a Dream Weaver.

So were Lorca and Whitman.

[Roshan]

The part that really gets me is how he broke down in court crying, "I worked very hard to become a barrister and disbarment is a bitter thought".

http://dwi-counsel.com/news/67.htm

[Vincent]

He wrote about it here

Not done reading yet, but at some point he calls his disbarment "the best thing that could have happened".



(Edit by rg viewtopic.php?p=5044#p5044 )

[Roshan]

Well, maybe he did but he's losing it again. He's going manicky in the last thing I watched.

Most interestingly, I stopped after a few minutes yesterday and when I went back to it just now, it was at @5'19" where he says "It's all about the heart over the head".

And then proceeds to discurse about some German Expressionist film (in case you were wondering where 'all that' was; like I said, he'll be perceived as he wishes to ultimately as image lead and if he wants to be perceived as a serious news commentator he won't quote Lorca that much. First time I've seen him do something like this and have watched many by now).

Now I find that immediately before this he said "It's a fantasy".



And this is how I 'metabolize information'. I don't have thoughts. Thoughts have me.

[Roshan]

I can't read that article just yet. He upsets me enormously. I can only deal with pushing out the envelope on him incrementally. I'll read it in a bit.

But I can say that all this reminds me of Blanche Dubois, the iconic character in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire who's used, correctly, to exemply 4. She's definitely a 4w3-7w6-9w1, and most likely [so/sx] who, as a southern 'lady', after more and more lies in the face of an ever cruder reality, becomes completely delusional, but the film ends with her positive reframing..

Also, the 's.o.' of my SiFe former collaborator is a social 4w3 (or possibly sp/SO but I doubt it) from a very working class Midwestern background who became a top executive at The Gap and then Nike. He did this to overcome the 'shame of his background'. I suspect Alexander may come from a similar background. Being a lawyer isn't really a comfort zone for a 4, though they are 'between 1 and 2', but such conventional success may be transformational 'art' in these cases--you get to save the world, impress your family, AND 'transcend' your environment. Two for the price of one. He was obviously over-close with the grandmother.

[Vincent]

He did this to overcome the 'shame of his background'. I suspect Alexander may come from a similar background. Being a lawyer isn't really a comfort zone for a 4, though they are 'between 1 and 2', but such conventional success may be transformational 'art' in these cases--you get to save the world, impress your family, AND 'transcend' your environment. Two for the price of one.

I was wondering about that too but he says in his bio here that "His family has been prominent in Greek politics for several generations."
Also says on his Facebook that he is from an "old family".

Could he be related to Melina Mercouri ?

[Roshan]

I'll also throw out that after I found out about the disbarment I began to wonder if it isn't actually 4w5(3w4). But this is new terrain. For instance, the propensity of unhealthy 4 to psychosis isn't really commented on; people think of Blanche as the L8 'emotionally tormented person'. So propensity of unhealthy 4 with what? 7 fix? social first? 3? 9? Just the 4? Attachment should not matter in terms of the psychosis, of course; bottom feeder 5 tends to schizophrenia. What puzzles with Alexander is the nature of the deceit, so similar to Blanche. Though, why it couldn't it be explained by the 7, 9 and even inherent Threeishness of social first...? Etc. bla bla bla.

Yes, I know. I have to read his own words.

My point being, again, new terrain. I mean no one seriously even considered 4 fix (yes yes I know I know, you considered, sure, whatever).

[Roshan]

Could he be related to Melina Mercouri ?

"Melina's grandfather, Spyridon Mercouris, had served for many years as mayor of Athens. Her father, Stamatis Mercouris,"--wiki

[Vincent]

Well, i'm not so sure about the ct anymore at this point. I'm starting to think you're also right about him being Se polr and FiSi.

But i have to go for now and then i'll be on mummying duty for a while. I'll watch and read more later.
tbcd.