As stated above 1 in
25 people are sociopaths 13 and,
like oil in water they pollute the top layer of society; their ruthless drive
facilitates their access to power.
The
renowned US writer and journalist William Blum declares, in an article
referring to " Washington's endless bombings and
endless wars' and Kerry's hounding of whistleblowers, that we are witnessing " Unlimited power in the hands of psychopaths' He adds, "My own country truly scares me' 14 .
Corporations which in
some cases seem to be more powerful than governments are also reported to
suffer from the same malaise. We are told that "People like Thom Hartmann have
suggested that to be the head of a fortune 1000 corporation, one must be a
sociopath. A researcher on corporate psychopaths puts the numbers between three
and 12 percent of managers' 15 . The book "Snakes in Suits' by the psychologist
Robert Hare is about psychopaths in the world of corporations.
The psychopathic behaviour of our political and
corporate leaders is clear for all to see; but what about ourselves, the
citizens. There are very many more of us than there are of them. Why do we
tolerate their crimes? Is our passivity not itself a form of madness?
What can be done
As Bradley Manning wrote,
just days before military police arrived to arrest him on May 29, 2010.
"...without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.'
Terrible things are habitually
done by sociopaths in power; starting and waging unjustified and illegal wars;
building vast war machines; creating and threatening to use weapons which
incinerate huge populations of innocent people; money-men, by their greed,
depriving decent people of their savings and their homes. Such crimes are so
common that the media and trend- setters treat them as normal. They are not
normal. They are crimes. We need to find ways of telling citizens the truth so
that they might awake in sufficient numbers to demand necessary change and save
us from the entire planet's insanity-led meltdown.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJwWR3VlGQ
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