More thoughts on how we are ruled by sociopaths who deceive us, from Cyrano’s Corner, by Rand Clifford.
An advantage of psychopaths over people with conscience…people with a “soul”, is that lying is little different than breathing. Psychopaths skate without remorse through behavior from which people with conscience recoil, protecting their humanity with the comforting blanket of, Oh! They’d never do THAT! Well, they do that, as naturally as breathing. Recognition of psychopaths, the misery they dump on everyone else, and on everything—and especially the knowledge that they can easily be revealed—might be the most important advance of all time regarding civilization more fitting of the name. Developments in brain scanning technologies leave psychopaths with nowhere to hide. One might think of it as X-ray vision regarding a person’s soul….
Of all the damage Cheney and BushCo have wreaked upon humanity, there could be a redeeming quality in that people with conscience are having their souls rubbed in levels of carnage that can only be achieved by psychopaths reaching epitomes of power. Nothing new, except the sheer scale of the lesson.
WARNING: Nothing is more dangerous than psychopaths in power being revealed for what they are. Though genetic psychopaths are still a small percentage of humanity, at all costs, they must be exposed, and kept from power. However enormous those costs, they mean little compared to what humanity will pay with continued psychopathic rule.
Our economic and political systems, based on competition and acquisition, actually rewards behaviour that would be criminal in any other context. Companies get away with polluting, contaminating and poisoning, us and our environment, but we accept it as the cost of ‘development’ or ‘growth’. The nastiest, most deceptive, corrupt, evil, sociopathic people inevitably rise to the top in almost all fields. Then they get to set the rules, so that they, their children, and people with the same lack of coscience continue to ‘succeed’. Nasty people design the system that rewards nasty people, who then get to design the system. Somehow we need to reboot our culture, so that greed, selfishness, aggression, competition and corruption are no longer rewarded with wealth and power.
