Re: Uncle Zook -- busted!
When it comes to truth, I don't play favorites. Nobody gets a "by" or a free pass. Not even UncleZook.
I like Zook and consider him a friend. He's definitely on the sociopathic end of the bell curve, so it's easy to understand his charm. Everyone liked the charming Bill Clinton, yet he was a dangerous sociopath deceiving and manipulating the American people with no shame, responsibility, or genuine morality. Zook is not Bill Clinton, just like Bill Clinton is not Henry Kissinger, yet all fall somewhere on the sociopathic end of the bell curve. But being a sociopath is no crime. However, the actions of a sociopath often are criminal. Very often.
So here we are again. Zook is busted. He's been caught yet again deceiving and manipulating the forum readers with no shame, responsibility, or genuine morality. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Exhibit S. UncleZook continually (
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ) uses Norman Dodd's commentary on the 1909 minutes from the Carnegie Endowment For International Peace as "proof" that Hitler's rise to power 20 years later and the resulting World War II was pre-planned, when that commentary does not constitute proof at all.
Zook can't help himself. He is a product of his psychology. It is up to us to see through his schemes and warn others. It is a
responsibility that I take seriously, even if I like Zook. I like to know the truth even more. In effect, the truth is more important than any allegiance to another human being. Both are important (note that they are not mutually exclusive), and we will often bend the truth for our friends. There are times when that is the correct and responsible thing to do. Determining what is correct and what is the responsible thing to do requires judgement, and the way we judge things is dependent on our psychology. Sociopaths do not see "correct" and "responsible" in the same manner as normal human beings. That is the truth. We have to deal with it, especially on the forums, where the percentage of sociopaths among the major players is significant.