{"id":21116,"date":"2016-06-18T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2016-06-18T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T01:10:33","slug":"the-sociopaths-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21116","title":{"rendered":"The Sociopaths Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twoicefloes.com\/the-sociopaths-among-us\/\">THE SOCIOPATHS AMONG US<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">We mere mortals are at such a terrible disadvantage when dealing with the sociopathic criminal element of the world, let alone their sycophant minions and enablers. Often it isn\u2019t even a fair fight, regardless of the fact we outnumber them a ten thousand to one.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>What passes for standard operating procedure (SOP) on Wall Street and in Washington DC would never even cross our minds as a valid choice, let alone desirable or even possible to consider. In fact, we find most of the sociopath\u2019s more egregious antics to be too fantastical to actually be true because we would never\u00a0ever\u00a0consider doing those things ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>This social\/psychological phenomenon is precisely why The Big Lie (and the mountain of smaller lies supporting The Big Lie) is so powerful and utterly believable to the average Jane or Joe. Time and time again I have heard a person, still deeply embedded within the Matrix, tell me the revelation I\u2019ve just passed on to him or her is simply impossible, thus in their mind discredited and totally without merit.<span id=\"more-14384\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And yet their initial unthinking response (\u201c<em>I just can\u2019t believe<\/em>\u2026\u2026\u201d) tells me all I need to know about their severe case of cognitive dissonance as well as their desperation to keep reality at bay. It simply\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0be possible because they\u00a0know\u00a0it to be impossible. The sociopaths feed off this type of emotional dysfunction the way whales feast off large schools of krill or sardines. It\u2019s all right there for the taking, consumed in one big gulp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SOCIOPATHS AMONG US We mere mortals are at such a terrible disadvantage when dealing with the sociopathic criminal element of the world, let alone their sycophant minions and enablers. Often it isn\u2019t even a fair fight, regardless of the fact we outnumber them a ten thousand to one. What passes for standard operating procedure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2675,14054,6092],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cognitive-dissonance","tag-sociopath","tag-twoicefloes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21117,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions\/21117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}