Pen-Dragon's definitions
Egopathy is more socially acceptable than psychopathy, as self-interest is encouraged and praised in countries where liberal capitalism is the central economic system...but it is certainly not limited only to these types of systems.
It is a general condition of human beings.
On the "pure-self-interest --group-solidarity/altruism" scale Egopaths skew strongly to egocentrism and self-interest;
I didn't think that the DSM definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorders quite fits the bill and this apparently widespread phenomenon needed a new category: definitely under the DSM Cluster B Group (Anitsocial-Borderline-Histrionic-Narcissistic), but with a more social-/group-mentality component to it.
The term "egopath" popped into my head one morning, but discovered it already had a definition.
There is in my definition the whole aspect of wanting to control and defend, however one has defined it, one's "integrity" -- bodily, cognitive, spiritual, destiny related -- against forces encroaching on, pushing for this integrity's demise, disintegration.
We are all on this continuum, but egopaths tend to be more cowardly, fearful, self-interested and self-preserving.
N.B. Egopathy seems to be a) widespread and b) quite socially acceptable in many countries.
For example, in German-speaking Switzerland, they say, "Geiz ist Geil!".
Translated: "Greediness is Great/Cool!"
It is a general condition of human beings.
On the "pure-self-interest --group-solidarity/altruism" scale Egopaths skew strongly to egocentrism and self-interest;
I didn't think that the DSM definition of Narcissistic Personality Disorders quite fits the bill and this apparently widespread phenomenon needed a new category: definitely under the DSM Cluster B Group (Anitsocial-Borderline-Histrionic-Narcissistic), but with a more social-/group-mentality component to it.
The term "egopath" popped into my head one morning, but discovered it already had a definition.
There is in my definition the whole aspect of wanting to control and defend, however one has defined it, one's "integrity" -- bodily, cognitive, spiritual, destiny related -- against forces encroaching on, pushing for this integrity's demise, disintegration.
We are all on this continuum, but egopaths tend to be more cowardly, fearful, self-interested and self-preserving.
N.B. Egopathy seems to be a) widespread and b) quite socially acceptable in many countries.
For example, in German-speaking Switzerland, they say, "Geiz ist Geil!".
Translated: "Greediness is Great/Cool!"
1) During the Covid pandemic, my best-friend turned out to be a total egopath, not wanting to even visit us despite our double-vaccination and social-distancing, for fear of her getting it herself or somehow losing her sense of smell.
2) They were such egopaths during the pandemic that they flew to a vacation in Croatia by plane, but then drove back in a mini-bus accross the Italian border to avoid the stringencies of the controls at their home airport.
2) They were such egopaths during the pandemic that they flew to a vacation in Croatia by plane, but then drove back in a mini-bus accross the Italian border to avoid the stringencies of the controls at their home airport.
by Pen-Dragon December 15, 2021
Get the Egopathmug. timmer-temmer (adjective) : A behavior combining timorousness and temerity. (timorous-temerous), courage and desire combined with fear. Often seen in wild park animals used to human contact—approach and retreat. Other examples, monkeys approaching humans, small shy children wanting to take something from an adult or another child, even fish being fed by scuba divers.
by Pen-Dragon August 14, 2009
Get the timmer-temmermug. Fool-King Jack-Holes
(noun, plural)
/ˈfu l kɪŋ dʒæk-hoʊlz/
Definition:
A pompous group of delusional men (and their enabler ladies) (usually in positions of power or self-appointed importance) who strut around with the self-assurance of kings, demagogues, dictators, with the wisdom of fools, and the moral depth of a mud puddle. Often loud, self-congratulatory, and totally unaware that everyone sees through their act.
Think: a mash-up of a court jester, a reality-TV strongman, and the guy at the office who thinks he's a visionary because he read one leadership book in 2009.
Examples:
🗣️ "After the board meeting, it was clear the entire executive team were just a bunch of Fool-King Jack-Holes."
🗣️ "You give a microphone to a Fool-King Jack-Hole and suddenly he thinks he's Churchill with a TikTok."
🗣️ "They stormed in like medieval tyrants but ran the whole thing like a Ren Faire gone wrong. Total Fool-King Jack-Holes."
Related Terms:
Jackassery, Ego Parade, Court of Clowns, Dunning-Kruger Klub, Pretend-o-crats
(noun, plural)
/ˈfu l kɪŋ dʒæk-hoʊlz/
Definition:
A pompous group of delusional men (and their enabler ladies) (usually in positions of power or self-appointed importance) who strut around with the self-assurance of kings, demagogues, dictators, with the wisdom of fools, and the moral depth of a mud puddle. Often loud, self-congratulatory, and totally unaware that everyone sees through their act.
Think: a mash-up of a court jester, a reality-TV strongman, and the guy at the office who thinks he's a visionary because he read one leadership book in 2009.
Examples:
🗣️ "After the board meeting, it was clear the entire executive team were just a bunch of Fool-King Jack-Holes."
🗣️ "You give a microphone to a Fool-King Jack-Hole and suddenly he thinks he's Churchill with a TikTok."
🗣️ "They stormed in like medieval tyrants but ran the whole thing like a Ren Faire gone wrong. Total Fool-King Jack-Holes."
Related Terms:
Jackassery, Ego Parade, Court of Clowns, Dunning-Kruger Klub, Pretend-o-crats
🗣️ "After the board meeting, it was clear the entire executive team were just a bunch of Fool-King JackHoles."
🗣️ "You give a microphone to a Fool-King JackHole and suddenly he thinks he's Churchill with a TikTok."
🗣️ "They stormed in like medieval tyrants but ran the whole thing like a Ren Faire gone wrong. Total Fool-King JackHoles."
🗣️ "You give a microphone to a Fool-King JackHole and suddenly he thinks he's Churchill with a TikTok."
🗣️ "They stormed in like medieval tyrants but ran the whole thing like a Ren Faire gone wrong. Total Fool-King JackHoles."
by Pen-Dragon June 21, 2025
Get the Fool-King Jackholesmug. The stress that results before (pre)-during-and-after (post) a vacation.
A vacation is actually simply the continuance of one's regular daily life under more difficult circumstances.
A vacation is actually simply the continuance of one's regular daily life under more difficult circumstances.
"Yes, I have VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder. I would actually rather be at the dentist's"
"I start shaking in fear when I think of my wife's plans for our next vacation...add to that a nervous cough, stuffed nose, headache, asthma, joint pain...wasn't this holday supposed to be good for me? Yes, this is VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder."
"I start shaking in fear when I think of my wife's plans for our next vacation...add to that a nervous cough, stuffed nose, headache, asthma, joint pain...wasn't this holday supposed to be good for me? Yes, this is VSD -- Vacation Stress Disorder."
by Pen-Dragon October 2, 2023
Get the Vacation Stress Disordermug. Goes something like this:
-- Don’t people the scientifically as yet unexplained, unexplored areas of our world and reality with wild – or otherwise – conjecture you propose as “TRUTH”.
-- Rigorously relegate said “beliefs” to the realm of wishful-/magical-thinking, fantasy, and fiction or – at the very least – have the courage to …
-- Present “them” as theories open to testing, fact-based repudiation, public scrutiny … and then
ACCEPT THE RESULTS !!! Or – at the very least –
Have the humility and intellectual honesty to call them what they are:
MY OWN …
Crazy Ideas
Desires
Self-psyche-salving delusions (at worst)/”fables” (at best) that help me get through the night,
help me get through life.
See ALSO: Occam’s Razor, Chatton’s Anti-Razor, Hickam’s Dictum, Leibniz’s and Kant’s anti-razors, Crabtree’s Bludgeon, Pataphysics.
-- Don’t people the scientifically as yet unexplained, unexplored areas of our world and reality with wild – or otherwise – conjecture you propose as “TRUTH”.
-- Rigorously relegate said “beliefs” to the realm of wishful-/magical-thinking, fantasy, and fiction or – at the very least – have the courage to …
-- Present “them” as theories open to testing, fact-based repudiation, public scrutiny … and then
ACCEPT THE RESULTS !!! Or – at the very least –
Have the humility and intellectual honesty to call them what they are:
MY OWN …
Crazy Ideas
Desires
Self-psyche-salving delusions (at worst)/”fables” (at best) that help me get through the night,
help me get through life.
See ALSO: Occam’s Razor, Chatton’s Anti-Razor, Hickam’s Dictum, Leibniz’s and Kant’s anti-razors, Crabtree’s Bludgeon, Pataphysics.
Because he refused to even consider the Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor), let alone use it, he peopled his ideas of what was going on around him, and in the world at large, with dark Deep States, Alien Beings, Cabals of Reptile-People, et al. Nothing is simply as it seems!!! It gave him the frisson he needed to keep from self-reflection.
by Pen-Dragon November 7, 2024
Get the Novacula Franqui (aka Novacula Frangiscc' aka Frankie's Razor)mug. Adjective to describe something that has an overwhelmingly positive, complete, enthralling, multi-sensory impact on a person.
A combination of cosmic, crazy, magic, orgasmic
First coined in Dietikon, Switzerland, December 2007
A combination of cosmic, crazy, magic, orgasmic
First coined in Dietikon, Switzerland, December 2007
"Wow! That was a crazmic show."
"Betty, that was a crazmic meal you made!"
"My new iPhone is just crazmic!"
"Betty, that was a crazmic meal you made!"
"My new iPhone is just crazmic!"
by Pen-Dragon January 1, 2008
Get the crazmicmug. That part of a greater whole of anything which you especially, particularly favor.
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
-- I couldn't wait for that scene in "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" when the Italian officer asks, "Where is the fire?"
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
by Pen-Dragon April 20, 2023
Get the quoddly-bitmug.