{"id":61369,"date":"2022-01-08T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61369"},"modified":"2022-01-08T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T14:48:04","slug":"is-there-a-way-to-prevent-psychopaths-from-getting-into-positions-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61369","title":{"rendered":"Is There A Way To Prevent Psychopaths From Getting Into Positions Of Power?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy to hyper-focus on collectivist ideologies as the source of our problems and forget that these ideologies do not function in a vacuum; they cannot wreak havoc by themselves, they need psychopathic people directing them to do real damage.<\/p>\n

There is something about collectivism that lends itself to projection and hypocrisy (collectivism is organization by FORCE instead of being voluntary). I suppose when your political ideology becomes your religion it\u2019s easy to turn into a zealot. And while zealots find power in their single-mindedness and their cultism they also tend to lack any self-awareness. They literally go insane with devotion to their cause to the point that they lose track of whether or not their cause is fair and just. Their behavior becomes increasingly erratic and disjointed and every person they run into that does not share their views is immediately seen as a heretical enemy that needs to be exposed or destroyed.<\/p>\n

To outsiders looking in, zealots are an endless source of comedy. You can\u2019t help but laugh because their ticks and cricks and outbursts are nonsensical and absurd (just check out \u201cLibs Of Tik Tok\u201d for a mountain of examples). As long as they don\u2019t have any real power these people act as a reminder of what happens when human beings abandon reason for madness. They can be frightening but they serve the purposes of entertainment as well as keeping the rest of us grounded. When they do gain power, however, that\u2019s when things stop being funny.<\/p>\n

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Is There A Way To Prevent Psychopaths From Getting Into Positions Of Power? Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very […]<\/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":[6703,5993,643,32420,10814,1824],"class_list":["post-61369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alt-market","tag-brandon-smith","tag-power","tag-psychopathology","tag-psychopaths","tag-sociopaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369","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=61369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61370,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions\/61370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}