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On Psychopathy And Power<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Due to a very painful and disturbing revelation in my personal life I have had the unfortunate occasion to spend the last several days<\/a> thinking a lot about psychopaths and what makes them tick. I don\u2019t want to get into the hairy details at this time, but I would like to share some of the more general thoughts that have been coming up here on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is interesting that psychopathy should have reached a dark tentacle into my life in the way that it did, given that the three years I\u2019ve been at this gig have been spent writing more<\/a> and more<\/a> about the way our world is run by calculating manipulators who are devoid of empathy. I often say<\/a> that we have found ourselves ruled by psychopaths because we have a system wherein (A) those who are willing to do anything to anyone are rewarded with immense wealth, and (B) immense wealth translates directly to immense political power<\/a>. Add in the fact that studies<\/a> have shown<\/a> that wealth itself kills off empathy and compassion, and you\u2019ve got yourself a perfect recipe for a plutocratic dystopia dominated by antisocial personality disorder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not really interested in getting into the specific clinical diagnoses of psychopathy and sociopathy for the purposes of this discussion. What I\u2019m talking about here is a specific slice of humanity that is neurologically wired in such a way that they experience the world more as a series of puzzles which can be manipulated around to get them them whatever they want regardless of who it hurts, rather than experiencing a world full of fellow sentient beings with whom you can have deep, meaningful connections and interactions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Psychopathy And Power Due to a very painful and disturbing revelation in my personal life I have had the unfortunate occasion to spend the last several days thinking a lot about psychopaths and what makes them tick. I don\u2019t want to get into the hairy details at this time, but I would like to share some […]<\/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":[17039,7899,643,868],"class_list":["post-49007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-political-power","tag-power","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007","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=49007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49009,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007\/revisions\/49009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}