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The Unexamined Mental Health of Dictators
from Kate Middleton & Sociopaths With Logos | The Tim Dillon Show #384 · #384
3 min
Tim riffs on nobody ever asking how Putin or Haitian gang leader Barbecue are doing mentally despite the immense pressure of their jobs, comparing their burdens to everyday stress like making school lunches.
- Tim compares the pressure of everyday life—packing kids' lunches, getting to work—to the weight of governing Russia's thousand-year history.
- He doesn't love Vladimir Putin's or 'barbecue's' tactics but doesn't envy the pressure of deposing governments and erecting new ones.
- No one ever asks how Vladimir Putin is doing mentally, whether he feels isolated sitting at that long table to avoid poisoning.
- Tim wonders how 'barbecue' feels mentally when forced to set people on fire and eat them—whether it upsets him or he compartmentalizes it.
- Nobody does a deep dive into the psyche of dictators; we just put them on newspaper covers without examining the psychological toll of their power.
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