July 20, 2006
The difference between George W. Bush and many so-called Neocons, and the rest of us…
Here are some thouhgts that many of us can recognize in “new world order” – the policy adopted by Stalin, Hitler and now George Bush’s administartion :
…My work has shown me that the vast majority of people want to do good, to experience good things, think good thoughts, and make decisions with good results. And they try with all their might to do so! With the majority of people hav-ing this internal desire, why the Hell isn’t it happening? I was naive !!!
Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no lim-iting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without ques-tion, like gullible fool. Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically dif-ferent from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that con-science is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they sel-dom even guess at your condition. In other words, you are completely free of internal re-straints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. You can do anything at all, and still your strange advan-tage over the majority of people, who are kept in line by their consciences will most likely remain undiscovered… How will you live your life? What will you do with your huge and secret advantage, and with the corresponding handicap of other people (con-science)? The answer will depend largely on just what your desires happen to be, because people are not all the same. Even the profoundly unscrupulous are not all the same. Some people – whether they have a conscience or not – favor the ease of iner-tia, while others are filled with dreams and wild ambitions. Some human beings are brilliant and talented, some are dull-witted, and most, conscience or not, are somewhere in be-tween. There are violent people and nonviolent ones, indi-viduals who are motivated by blood lust and those who have no such appetites. [...] Provided you are not forcibly stopped, you can do any-thing at all. If you are born at the right time, with some access to fam-ily fortune, and you have a special talent for whipping up other people’s hatred and sense of deprivation, you can ar-range to kill large numbers of unsuspecting people. With enough money, you can accomplish this from far away, and you can sit back safely and watch in satisfaction. [...] Crazy and frightening – and real, in about 4 percent of the population….
The high incidence of sociopathy in human society has a profound effect on the rest of us who must live on this planet, too, even those of us who have not been clinically trauma-tized. The individuals who constitute this 4 percent drain our relationships, our bank accounts, our accomplishments, our self-esteem, our very peace on earth.
The psychopath suffers from profound and incurable affective deficit. If he really feels anything at all, they are emotions of only the shallowest kind. He is able to do whatever he wants, based on whatever whim strikes him, because consequences that would fill the ordinary man with shame, self-loathing, and embarrassment simply do not affect the psychopath at all. What to others would be a horror or a disaster is to him merely a fleeting inconvenience.
“They – psycho-path and part psychopath – do well in the more unscrupulous types of sales work, because they take such delight in ‘putting it over on them’, getting away with it – and have so little con-science about defrauding their customers.”
They can write scholarly works, imitate the words of emotion, but over time, it becomes clear that their words do not match their actions.
In this way, many psycho-paths are able to reach very high positions in life. It is only over time that their associates become aware of the fact that their climb up the ladder of success is predicated on violating the rights of others. “Even when they are indifferent to the rights of their associates, they are often able to inspire feelings of trust and confidence.”
The psychopath recognizes no flaw in his psyche, no need for change.
But that 90-some percent of normal people know that some-thing is wrong! They just can’t quite identify it; can’t quite put their finger on it; and because they can’t, they tend to think that there is nothing they can do about it, or maybe it is just God punishing people.
Psychopaths, like a virulent pathogen in a body, strike at the weaknesses, and the entire society is plunged into conditions that always and inevitably lead to horror and trag-edy on a very large scale.
To give an example of how psychopaths can directly affect society at large: the “legal argument” as explicated by Robert Canup in his work on the Socially Adept Psychopath. The legal argument seems to be at the foundation of our society. We believe that the legal argument is an advanced system of jus-tice. This is a very cunning trick that has been foisted on nor-mal people by psychopaths in order to have an advantage over them.
Psychopath enjoys making others suffer. Just as normal humans enjoy seeing other people happy, or doing things that make other people smile, the psychopath enjoys the exact opposite. Anyone who has ever observed a cat playing with a mouse before killing and eating it has probably explained to them-selves that the cat is just “entertained” by the antics of the mouse and is unable to conceive of the terror and pain being experienced by the mouse. The cat, therefore, is innocent of any evil intent. The mouse dies, the cat is fed, and that is na-ture. Psychopaths don’t generally eat their victims.
In the past several years, there are many more psychologists and psychiatrists and other mental health workers beginning to look at these issues in new ways in response to the questions about the state of our world and the possibility that there is some essential difference between such individuals as George W. Bush and many so-called Neocons, and the rest of us.
In any event, even without Dr. Stout’s work, at the time we were studying the matter, we realized that what we were learn-ing was very important to everyone because as the data was assembled, we saw that the clues, the profiles, revealed that the issues we were facing were faced by everyone at one time or another, to one extent or another. We also began to realize that the profiles that emerged also describe rather accurately many individuals who seek positions of power in fields of authority, most particularly politics and commerce. That’s really not so surprising an idea, but it honestly hadn’t occurred to us until we saw the patterns and recognized them in the behaviors of numerous historical figures and, lately, including George W. Bush and members of his administration.
These researchers lived through that, and then when the Nazis were driven out and replaced by the Communists under the heel of Stalin, they faced years of op-pression the likes of which those of us today who are choosing to take a stand against the Bush Reich cannot even imagine. But, based on the syndrome that describes the onset of the dis-ease, it seems that the United States, in particular, and perhaps the entire world, will soon enter into “bad times” of such horror and despair that the Holocaust of World War II will seem like just a practice run.
Now, a few thoghts of my own: Can anyone stop the mad man ? It’s very frustrating watching the news last couple days. It was the same when Irak war started… But what can you do ? Just watch and see what happens or turn off the TV. That’s easy, but still there is a memory that goes with you of killed people every minute as the time goes by. A frustration becomes greater because the killers claimed to identify themselves as Christians and Jews. People that have the MOST TO SAY ABOUT GOD. The country that name don’t want to go through my throat says that they have the right to “defend her self”, is committing the mass murder and the world is just watching… making their “holy faces” and praying… You psychopathic hypocrites !!! I hope that you will find yourself in your invented hell together with your beloved Bush and his administration, with Hitler and Sharon, with Rumsfeld and Kissinger who runs all this madness… So help you your GOD !
