Probably.. ive seen the exact same narcissistic behavior and patterns appear in a few people close to me. I feel like I understand the mindset quite a bit now. For this guy, it’s interesting he is willing to look outside the box to some degree and get some conspiracies correct, but he has the need to just derail whatever quest for knowledge in favor of self-aggrandizement. Most other narcissistic types I’ve seen seem to have the inability to have self reliance or disagree with the crowd if the crowd is objectively wrong. To them, they’d be like how are they going to gain approval if they disagree with the group consensus? There seems to be no barometer for objective truth, just approval-seeking behavior. I draw parallels between commies and narcissists, thinking they’re special, that their views are special, erasing history to feel correct, silencing dissidents, playing with words to retardedly feel correct, etc