People with a paranoid personality disorder want to dominate over others. They are greedy, authoritarian, megalomaniac and they long to accumulate assets, as they give them a sense of superiority and security. When they cannot dominate over others, they feel threatened and persecuted and react with paranoia. Their paranoia – thinking that there are oh so grand schemes plotted against them – is the reverse side of their megalomania; their projection of hostility into others is their own hostility and envy against them. When they feel frustrated in their sense of superiority and their sense of entitlement, they develop longstanding and inflexible grudges; and they easily feel offended and provoked. Their ego is both bloated and inflated, as well as very frail, and they feel reduced to nothing when they view someone else as more dominant than themselves. And so they may lash out with violence, since they consider themselves under a violent, actually lethal attack. This lashing out may become self-destructive; as they distinctly lack personal circuit and constructive emotionality they have actually not very much else to defend than the integrity of their ego which becomes self-referential. Mass shooters and people that run amok frequently are people with a paranoid personality disorder seeing themselves being driven over the edge by others. The ugliest aspect is that the more violent and hostile they become, the more they are about to blame the other and feel under siege of their supposed violence and inherent evil; it seems they cannot stand and fear their own hostility inside them, obviously not least as it runs counter their splendid ego-ideal of seeing themselves as basically the „good guy“. Their paranoia then becomes madness-like, although, for the other part of their personality, they remain sober and sane; this hybrid between sanity and insanity becomes more dangerous and uncanny than insanity itself; it is an emotional and moral insanity, not an allover mental breakdown. The „Russian soul“ is prone to paranoid toxicity as it carries a (somehow justified) sense of cultural superiority and a cultural saviour mentality together with an acute sense of its own shortcomings and impracticality; Russia is both very potent and very impotent on every level; the resulting toxic mix of a superiority complex and an inferiority complex being in place at the same time is not a phantasma, but is firmly rooted in material reality. Russia is the greatest paradox in the world. It dominates and connects the Eurasian landmass, yet it is neither particularly European nor Asian; it is, according to Mackinder, the „Heartland“ of the world, yet it is quite different from most of the rest of the world and isolated. It must be difficult to govern Russia. When paranoid people lash out, it may well be that the environment (in that case US/EU, Nato…) had their fair share in driving them over the edge; yet all in all, it is paranoid people making it quite impossible to get by with them over the long run, as they feel easily offended, permanently need reassurance, only have superficial bonds to others, lack humanity, want to take more from others than they offer to others, and, in general, can´t get their shit together. People with a paranoid personality disorder are potentially more dangerous than psychopaths; for psychopaths are more erratic, whereas paranoid people are inflexible and commited once they walk their destructive paths (although they may be appeased when their superiority and dominance is reinstalled, yet that will forever be a precarious matter). Paranoid people are, likely, the most dangerous of leaders. That is the essence of „Moby Dick“.