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Revered psychopaths: a different type of history
I thought of doing a video/article on famous, revered men...
... Who turn out to be very, very dark triad if you look at some signs.
I started with a cursory look at one I had thought could make the list:
Pablo Picasso.
And it's potentially even worse than I thought.
From this article:
Sixteen years ago, Marina Picasso, one of Pablo Picasso’s granddaughters, became the first family member to go public about how much her family had suffered under the artist’s narcissism. “No one in my family ever managed to escape from the stranglehold of this genius,” (...)
After Jacqueline Roque, Picasso’s second wife, barred much of the family from the artist’s funeral, the family fell fully to pieces: Pablito, Picasso’s grandson, drank a bottle of bleach and died; Paulo, Picasso’s son, died of deadly alcoholism born of depression. Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s young lover between his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, and his next mistress, Dora Maar, later hanged herself; even Roque eventually fatally shot herself.“
Some more famous but potentially dark figures, in my opinion:
- Sigmund Freud
- Ayn Rand, good to have a woman on the list :)
- ...
There is a good show on Disney+ about the life of Pablo Picasso. It is called “ genius”.
It does seem like he was an egotistical, self-centred narcissistic man.
