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| − | ''Not to be confused with [[sociopathy]], psychopaths ''are born without a [[conscience]]''.'' This is not to say that they necessarily behave completely selfishly, since other behaviour can be learned, | + | ''Not to be confused with [[sociopathy]], psychopaths ''are born without a [[conscience]]''.'' |
| + | <ref> For the nature vs. nurture debate, see also: | ||
| + | Cleckley, Hervey Milton (1955) The mask of sanity: An attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality. Ravenio Books. Full text (5th edition, 1988): https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1941-cleckley-maskofsanity.pdf | ||
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| + | This is not to say that they necessarily behave completely selfishly, since other behaviour can be learned, however, the psychopath uses these learned responses almost exclusively to deceive self and others. | ||
==Prevalence== | ==Prevalence== | ||
About 1% of the population are born with psychopathy. This is pretty easily tested, but the entire phenomenon is not given much attention and brought into the public consciousness much. | About 1% of the population are born with psychopathy. This is pretty easily tested, but the entire phenomenon is not given much attention and brought into the public consciousness much. | ||
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Not to be confused with sociopathy, psychopaths are born without a conscience. [1] This is not to say that they necessarily behave completely selfishly, since other behaviour can be learned, however, the psychopath uses these learned responses almost exclusively to deceive self and others.
Contents
Prevalence
About 1% of the population are born with psychopathy. This is pretty easily tested, but the entire phenomenon is not given much attention and brought into the public consciousness much.
Importance
Psychopathy is of great importance to the deep state, as it renders people more predictable. People who are totally selfish are also totally controllable by a suitable combination of threats and rewards. By contrast, people with a conscience are less likely to be so manipulated and are more emotionally robust. In the case of Tony Blair for example - lying to start a war in which over 1,000,000 people were killed could reasonably be expected to create psychological problems (i.e. at least sleepless nights or remorse). This does not seem to be an issue for Mr. Blair, whose only semblances of remorse are perfunctory in the extreme.
Sociopathy
Sociopathy is the learned behaviour of emulating psychopaths.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Tony Blair | Remarkably popular at the time, Tony Blair was a UK prime minister, now infamous for lying the UK into invading Iraq, notwithstanding massive opposition. He is currently sought for War crimes by many people. |
| Document:Maintaining a Kakistocracy | |
| Allen Dulles | Dulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter. |
| Lyndon Johnson | Generally agreed to have been heavily involved in the plot to assassinate his predecessor, JFK. |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human sacrifice | “While documentation of the widespread existence of Satanic human sacrifice cults is lacking, evidence of other forms of systematic human sacrifice is available. Two examples in modern history are the Catholic Inquisition, a human sacrifice cult of a religious-theological nature, and the Third Reich, a human sacrifice cult of a military-political nature. (In calling the Inquisition and the Third Reich cults, I am using the word in a broad, informal, and unscholarly sense, to mean an organized group driven by a well-elaborated theological doctrine, which for the Nazis was Aryan racial mysticism.) The fact that the Catholic Inquisition and the Third Reich were both run by middle-class, Caucasian, educated individuals from Judaeo-Christian cultures suggests that it is psychologically possible for ordinary middle-class citizens to be perpetrating such crimes in North America today, especially given the high level of violence in contemporary Western societies.” | Colin Ross | 1995 |
| Psychopathy/Psychopathy and gender | “For mothers, presenting the facade of ordinary, devoted maternal care provides an invaluable subterfuge for abuse.” | Anna Motz | 2016 |
| Psychopathy/Psychopathy and staged events | “It is only beneath the surface, well hidden from view, that darker tendencies lie.” | Robert Hare Paul Babiak |
Weblinks
'I Am Fishead' is a documentary which explores the topic with world-renowned experts in the field. Website of the movie. IMDB page.
References
- ↑ For the nature vs. nurture debate, see also: Cleckley, Hervey Milton (1955) The mask of sanity: An attempt to clarify some issues about the so-called psychopathic personality. Ravenio Books. Full text (5th edition, 1988): https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1941-cleckley-maskofsanity.pdf
