Originally Posted by
jason_m
Even as Se-PoLR, there are a whole bunch of Se-egos that I like: Jason Statham, ("World's Smartest Man") Christopher Langan, Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, basketball player "Birdman," football coach Mike Singletary, even Liam Neeson - "Taken" is one of my all-time favourite movies. And then the sexy, outspoken E7 Se types: Katy Perry, Madonna, Kate Winslet, Megan Fox, etc. I just simply cannot stand someone who is a complete a**hole. I therefore cannot stand: a lot of Robert De Niro's characters (e.g., "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull"), Gordon Ramsay, 'Judge Judy,' 'Miss Daisy,' 'Anton Chighurr' from "No Country for Old Men" and 'Alonzo Harris' from "Training Day." And there are people who are not traditionally Se who I cannot stand. For instance, the personalities of Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman are very close to me and their philosophies could not be more sickening...
Therefore: 1) with all of those examples I have given, I don't think it is simply about Se. 2) As an 'Alpha NT,' and therefore a logical, creative person, am I expected to watch "No Country for Old Men" and feel absolutely nothing? I mean, am I supposed to be a cold-blooded sociopath? That is almost what is expected...
I also remember the when I studied the MBTI. It was always the "thinking types" that I minded - the ones associated with cruelty and abuse, but I couldn't explain why I liked a lot of the ENTPs and INTPs. "But aren't they thinking types just like those other abusive types?" It didn't compute.
In fact, every one of the a**hole's mentioned - "thinking types" under the old rubric.
And now the same thing with 'Se': "How are Jason Statham Anton Chighurr alike? I like Statham. I cannot stand "No Country for Old men." How are they both 'Se'?"
Do you see what I'm getting at?
Whatever the real nature of this function is, it just floats from one Jungian function to the next, without anyone being able to pinpoint what it really is...
I can just see it in the next theory, it's just going to be the same thing again with a different function. And I will once again be 'Fi-PoLR' or 'Ti-PoLR' or whatever...