3. We keep voting them in instead of locking them up!
Why?
I can think of a few possibilities:
One, we're intoxicated. If we're not eating, we're drinking. If we're not drinking, we're popping pills. And if we're not popping pills, we're filling our lips full of collagen and our breasts full of silicon. We want sex and beauty forever. Who cares about corruption?
It's unfortunate, but we have become more concerned with our immediate creature comforts than our collective survival. We'd sell our political liberties for a coupon to Wal-Mart.
Two, we're naive. We believe what they say instead of carefully observing what they do . Nothing could be more dangerous. I believe this is true both on the personal and the cultural level.
An example of true sociopathy at work? Here's what Duvall said after the media exposed him:
"I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly..."
What?!!!!
No mention of his family. No mention of his failure to perform his duties as a public servant. No mention of ethics. Just a deft deflection of the problem onto everyone else -- it's your fault for paying attention and making it such a big deal. This is not dissimilar from the thinking that underpins most of domestic violence: "If you had just done what I'd told you, I wouldn't have had to hit you. Look at what you made me do!!"
He's not the only one. How many corporate officers were bailed out by our tax dollars so they could continue paying themselves $13,000,000 a year salaries? How many $30,000 a year workers were laid off so they could buy another house on a shore they couldn't "recall?" In one company's case, it was at a cost of more than 600 jobs. That's 600 families -- men, women and children -- without income so one man wouldn't have to change the size of his checkbook.
Or the marketing strategies of the executives at the pharmaceutical companies... which are once again under the gun for wooing doctors with lavish enticements to prescribe their medications off-label.
Or the media which has conspired with those corporate entities, employing every means of fear available to them, to keep us afraid, to keep us needy, and to keep us buying.
Sociopathy is a pathological state of utter selfishness. It is a manifestation of the sense that one is above rules or ethics, that one is superior to others, and that no one else matters. A sociopath has no empathy, no remorse, and is unbound by conscience. They are also incredibly good pretenders. They can act as if they cared. They can make you feel that you're in the presence of true benevolence... until you are no longer useful to them.
America cannot afford to be run by sociopaths and we cannot afford to be lulled by either their pretense or the "coupons" they are passing out. When we see them, we need to call them on the carpet and not waste a second listening to excuses. Americans need to learn some limit-setting. And we need to learn it soon.
The only reason America is or ever has been a great country is because ordinary men and women have insisted it be so with every fiber of their beings. If we don't continue to hold these "leaders" accountable, the lunatics will not only be on the grass, they'll be running the asylum.
Why?
I can think of a few possibilities:
One, we're intoxicated. If we're not eating, we're drinking. If we're not drinking, we're popping pills. And if we're not popping pills, we're filling our lips full of collagen and our breasts full of silicon. We want sex and beauty forever. Who cares about corruption?
Two, we're naive. We believe what they say instead of carefully observing what they do . Nothing could be more dangerous. I believe this is true both on the personal and the cultural level.
An example of true sociopathy at work? Here's what Duvall said after the media exposed him:
"I am deeply saddened that my inappropriate comments have become a major distraction for my colleagues in the Assembly..."
What?!!!!
No mention of his family. No mention of his failure to perform his duties as a public servant. No mention of ethics. Just a deft deflection of the problem onto everyone else -- it's your fault for paying attention and making it such a big deal. This is not dissimilar from the thinking that underpins most of domestic violence: "If you had just done what I'd told you, I wouldn't have had to hit you. Look at what you made me do!!"
He's not the only one. How many corporate officers were bailed out by our tax dollars so they could continue paying themselves $13,000,000 a year salaries? How many $30,000 a year workers were laid off so they could buy another house on a shore they couldn't "recall?" In one company's case, it was at a cost of more than 600 jobs. That's 600 families -- men, women and children -- without income so one man wouldn't have to change the size of his checkbook.
Or the marketing strategies of the executives at the pharmaceutical companies... which are once again under the gun for wooing doctors with lavish enticements to prescribe their medications off-label.
Or the media which has conspired with those corporate entities, employing every means of fear available to them, to keep us afraid, to keep us needy, and to keep us buying.
Sociopathy is a pathological state of utter selfishness. It is a manifestation of the sense that one is above rules or ethics, that one is superior to others, and that no one else matters. A sociopath has no empathy, no remorse, and is unbound by conscience. They are also incredibly good pretenders. They can act as if they cared. They can make you feel that you're in the presence of true benevolence... until you are no longer useful to them.
America cannot afford to be run by sociopaths and we cannot afford to be lulled by either their pretense or the "coupons" they are passing out. When we see them, we need to call them on the carpet and not waste a second listening to excuses. Americans need to learn some limit-setting. And we need to learn it soon.
The only reason America is or ever has been a great country is because ordinary men and women have insisted it be so with every fiber of their beings. If we don't continue to hold these "leaders" accountable, the lunatics will not only be on the grass, they'll be running the asylum.
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