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... The best defense is not to engage with them. You can't win. If you are forced to work with a psychopath then you either kill him or leave."
" How can we distinguish between psychopaths and healthy people? What is the portrait of a true psychopath?
Such a dangerous question has almost never been successfully asked. The reason is because we mistakenly confuse healthy for normal . Human psychological diversity is the health of our race. There is no normal because healthy humans continuously evolve beyond all normalizing standards. The terrorism of searching through hierarchies for anyone deviating from normal is no different from witch hunts or Inquisitions. You must remember that hierarchies thrive on such low dramas, torturing victims until they confess to evil beliefs. Not so long ago the church and state ongoingly acquired significant income and property through witch hunts and Inquisitions. This continued for over two hundred and fifty years. Ten generations of Europeans understood pogrom as normal life. Let us not return to that nightmare. Testing for normal is guaranteed to backfire in our face. There is no normal.
But there is conscience.
We have very little empirical evidence to support the idea that true psychopathy is the result of an abused childhood, and much empirical evidence to support that it is genetic. The neurobiological model offers us the greatest hope of being able to identify even the most devious psychopath. Other recent studies lead to similar results and conclusions: that psychopaths have great difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal affective (emotional) material, that they tend to confuse the emotional significance of events, and most importantly, that these deficits show up in brain scans ! A missing internal connection between the feeling heart and the thinking brain is detectable.
Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions. In fact, when Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain scans on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words, one set of neutral words with no emotional associations and a second set with emotionally charged words, while different areas of the brain lit up in the non-psychopathic control group, in the psychopaths, both sets were processed in the same area of the brain, the area that deals with language. They did not have an emotional reaction until they intellectually concluded that it would be better if they had one, and then they whipped up an emotional response just for show."
I like where he's going. It's not about identifying non-normals. I embrace and support the idea of people being different, being creative, making a conscious decision to stand out from the crowd, as Emerson and Thoreau celebrated.
Callahan has more to say that is cause for thought:
"The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths.All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination.
The inventor of civilization -- the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers -- was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies -- especially military hierarchies.
Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld -- the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it.
During the past fifty years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task.
The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths.
All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination.
The inventor of civilization -- the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers -- was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies -- especially military hierarchies.
Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld -- the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it.
During the past fifty years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task.
I have started speculating that there are so many sociopaths and psychopaths in positions of power that they are blocking serious efforts to identify who the predatory psychopaths and sociopaths are, so they can be dealt with.
I believe it is a mistake to take the liberal/progressive approach of kindness and compassion when it comes to brutal, conscienceless predators. I refuse to believe that those who suggest compassion would truly act that way if they discovered there was a sociopath in their child's classroom.
One last thought. Some commenters have suggested that the whole idea of sociopaths and psychopaths is pop psychology. I don't accept that. These people exist. They are real. They are dangerous. They are ruining our planet our culture. It is time we do a lot more so we can protect ourselves from them. I am not calling for any immediate actions against psychopaths or sociopaths. I am calling for massive action to learn more about them and how to prevent them from hurting others.
This article is part of a series on Sociopathy Psychopathy:
Advertisers Encouraging Lying, Deception
Poll: Should Known Sociopaths be Banned? Please vote in the poll
Patterns of Psychopaths/Sociopaths; The "Psychopathic Bond"
Tamerlane-- Namesake for a Sociopathic Narcissist Mass Murderer?
Podcast:Sociopaths, Anti-Social Disorder-- Interview with The Guy Who Wrote the Book On It
Podcast: Mikhail Lyubansky Varieties of Evil, Varieties of Justice
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