The Crazymakers: a.k.a, another post in which I ramble on........

The individuals in the film industry that would likely be labeled crazymaker, amongst other things, would display personality traits of a sociopathic nature in which they exude a lack of remorse towards others misfortune and are all but incapable of empathizing with other individuals. I have seen this on display to some degree in the little professional experience I have had on film sets and any time I see this lack of care towards other people it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I find that these individuals are likely very unhappy with their lives and so they typically feel that other people's misfortune is actually something that they feed off of in order to feel better about their own troubled life. In my opinion this is the worse kind of crazymaker in that, this individual is capable of damaging relationships permanently because they are not willing to care for others. It's typically easy to spot these individuals because they are usually hostile when interacting with others on set and tend to alienate people in order to make a point. This form of crazymaking is just as volatile in this instance, because in a professional setting there is typically a trickle down effect that winds up causing problems with more than just the individual directly involved. An interesting thing to me is how I could even argue that the way the industry is set up actually feeds the crazymaker personality. The fast paced, always changing, sometimes hostile environment becomes a breeding ground for individuals to use and abuse power sometimes just for the sake of doing. I believe this occurs because sometimes crazymakers work their way up through manipulation and deceit, then find themselves in a position of power and continue to abuse their underlings just because they can. As you might imagine this creates a very hostile work environment and often times that is the case on a film set in which the higher ups cause more problems than fix them.
When I think back to crazymakers that I've come across in my personal life there are fortunately only a few shining examples that come to mind. Fortunately these individuals where just people I thought were my friends, not family members and I was able to distance myself from them after realizing their nature. Even still, the crazymakers in my life have been the lesser evil compared to the true definition of the term. There were two friends in particular that I had come in to my life several years back that just wanted to make people miserable because that's how they felt. These guys were just the type to never be satisfied with anything and they wanted to project this disappointment onto their friends. It got to the point to where I realized that there was no friendship I could give back to them that would ever be good enough. So eventually I had to distance myself from these people otherwise I would find myself circling the bowl of depression along with them. It's sad when this happens because I always tend to look for the best in people despite the blaring shortcomings and especially in this situation where these people were my friends, I always felt that I could help. The realization I had is that some people just don't want to be helped and I believe this could be considered another form of what defines a crazymaker. I haven't had to deal with any of this type of drama in my family fortunately but I have friends who have family members that are the very definition of a crazymaker and this concept has always felt foreign to me given that my family is so very close. I just think it's incredibly sad that a person whom you should trust and be close to, can essentially betray you and make you feel insignificant. I know it's a bleak perhaps extreme way to deal with the situation, but I truly believe that after a certain amount of time the only thing you can do is sever ties with these individuals. I also recognize the fact that it's easy for me to say because I don't have family members like this, but again, if an individual isn't willing to help themselves then there's only so much you can do.