I think Jodi hates everybody except Jodi.
I tend to believe psychopaths view people as bugs for the most part. They'll be superficially lovely and charming when they can gain something from a person and equally abusive and dismissive when that person has served their purpose.
I've read some accounts of psychopaths that express amusement at what they perceive are human frailties and fallibility - our emotions and conscience - and what 'joy' they gain from having the ability to manipulate those.
Again JMO.
I think, in actuality, psychopaths actually despise themselves first and foremost. Just my personal opinion.
I truly believe in every sense of the theory that you cannot feel anything for someone else that you aren't capable of feeling for yourself.
Their self love and adoration is a facade, hence the tremendous inner rage and hatred of others.
I am convinced that no psychopath has ever shared the entire truth of their true selves to anyone- not even each other. That would completely go against their created illusion of self love and imperviousness.
They love to share stories of how they don't feel the same vulnerable emotions that we do. How they look down on us, yada, yada, yada. How it is a game, and as you said, we are bugs to them.
If, they truly had no emotions (empathy, compassion) they would have empathy for no one- not even themselves. Yet, self preservation is at the core of all of their decisions and chess like manipulations with others. If in fact they were incapable of these things entirely-they would feel indifference I would think. For themselves and others.
Where does the rage and unmitigated anger stem from? I believe so deeply that the truth is they hate us because they envy us, and hate themselves because of that deep, hidden envy, and what it is they are lacking in. That is the BIG secret of psychopaths.
Not because they see themselves as superior, but actually inferior.
Just like I may admire someone who has a healthy family of origin or who had opportunities because of their happy, normal childhoods- while I don't envy them (I feel they are lucky and blessed), I certainly wish I had been afforded the same opportunity. I didn't, but I moved on.
I am grateful that against my circumstances I have made a good life for myself and have a loving marriage and happy children, I have managed to make the best of my traumatic circumstances and have turned them into a positive. Personally, I wish things had been different for me, but I accept that they weren't and I forge ahead with what I do have, and I am grateful.
I think Jodi and other sociopaths/psychopaths HATE the fact that we feel empathy, compassion, and deep and sincere love for ourselves and others. No matter what kind of craziness they spew- they see that other people are able to have loving, happy, fulfilling lives and they can't stand the fact that they are incapable. Even with all of the tragedies in peoples lives we make it through, we laugh, we cry, we love, we fight, we feel sorry, we feel remorse, we grieve. We truly love, and for the most part, are loved in return.
Kindness and love in all of its foibles and fallacies- pain and adulation, are rich and rewarding feelings- they also come with the good, the bad, and the ugly. Each and every rich emotion has a lesson and can be rewarding.
Jodi and other psychopaths are already imprisoned in their own hell, trapped in their own bodies and self hatred. I think they in turn unleash that fury on those they come in to contact with- and some times they just need to snuff those others out. We are left in the rubble, but we are also left with our rich and wonderful emotions to pick up the pieces and move ahead with our lives. Like so many of us 'bugs' here- too many to mention- we make the best of whatever we have been dealt and try to help the next person who comes along.
I prefer to be the bug!
