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The truth of the matter is incentives rule the world, and if we look at some of the most pernicious and predatory areas of our socio-economic reality, including (but not limited to) the financial sector, the defense industry, intelligence agencies and healthcare, we find a slew of incentives that handsomely reward sociopathic behavior, while penalizing ethical, conscious action beneficial to society at large. Notice it’s always the whistleblowers who end up imprisoned or hunted down. -- source

Incentives don't rule the world. Sociopaths do. Sociopaths control the incentives, just as they control everything else that is important to their continuing domination of society.

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The most surefire way to succeed in America today is to be a high-functioning sociopath who scratches the backs of other high-functioning sociopaths. As such, the most pressing problem at a root level is that our economy and society incentivizes sociopathic behavior by systematically funneling sociopaths into positions of unaccountable power. If this sounds insane it’s because it is. The very structure of how our society functions is in fact insane. -- source

Allowing socipaths to lead us is indeed insane. I've said as much many times before in this forum. It's nice to know somebody agrees with me.

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These are the people running the show (i.e. sociopaths). They infect every country, every industry, every government. All the halls of power. Until we figure out a way to marginalize humanity’s sociopaths rather than hand them the reins of power globally, we’ll continue to repeat the current pointless, destructive cycle. -- source

That too I have said over and over again. The solution is to 1) identify the sociopaths, and 2) disqualify them from all positions of power and control.

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We need to see sociopaths for the societal cancer they are and completely reorient our incentive structure in order to reward conscious, cooperative behavior as opposed to ruthless parasitism. Change the incentives and you’ll change the outcome. -- source

Too late. The sociopaths control the incentives. For most people, the incentive is money, and sociopaths control the money system. They've controlled it for over 100 years now, and the population is totally focused on "earning a living". So that incentive is not going to change. My solution is the correct one and can work without having to change our foundational incentives. They will change gradually on their own if non-sociopaths can replace sociopaths in positions of power and control.

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I should note that the article I commented on in the prior post is probably the first one I have ever seen in the mainstream media (assuming RT qualifies as mainstream) that recognizes the enormity of the problem humanity has with sociopaths. It is gratifying to see that all the research and investigation into sociopathy that I have done, and the conclusions it has led me to, is finally being recognized. I don't need to be recognized, but the problem and solution does, if humanity is to have any chance of surviving the rule of sociopaths. They will gladly take us to the brink of self-destruction, and beyond.

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We need to realize that our government is a criminal entity controlled by an entrenched elite who are unspeakably evil. -- source

The "entrenched elite who are unspeakably evil" are the sociopaths. Any government made up of sociopaths is a criminal entity. The Israeli government is a criminal entity. So is the U.S. government. Same for the British, French, and German governments. How is that possible? Sociopaths, of course. They are everywhere. They might only be 2% of the general population, but at the highest levels of human hierarchy, sociopaths probably make up 98% of that elite group. They cooperate like in a private club at the top of the power pyramid. Only sociopaths are allowed in the club. They knowingly discriminate in favor of their own psychological type. It's a matter of survival for them to do so, but they do it secretly. That too, the secrecy, is necessary for their survival. It's the only way evil can survive in a world of mostly good people.

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Our battle for liberty appears not just as a conflict between those who want freedom versus those who want control, but instead as the battle between normal people and the psychopaths. I have found incredible explanatory power of our world within the psychopathic hypothesis: The world feels wrong because psychopaths run it. -- source

Yes, understanding sociopaths is the key to explaining the evil in the world. It explains the wars. It explains our economic enslavement. It explains the controlled media. It explains our false history. It explains our political theater. It explains our unjust justice system. It explains our fake governments. It explains our evolutionary stagnation.

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Psychopaths have a profound lack of empathy. They use other people callously and remorselessly for their own ends. They seduce victims with a hypnotic charm that masks their true nature as pathological liars, master con artists, and heartless manipulators. -- source

That's a good summary describing a psychopath (or sociopath, same thing) in three sentences. That is the essence of humanity's greatest problem — the reign of the sociopath.

This planet, and all of humanity, is steered and directed by an organized group of powerful sociopaths. They have done so for millennia, all while deceiving us about what they are really doing. In the past, they controlled us with religion, while today they control us with money. The religion was fake, and the money is also fake (they create it out of thin air). Both are tools for psychological manipulation of the human population. In the past we were religiously enslaved, while today we are economically enslaved. In the future, we will be directly mind-controlled. The sociopaths are nothing but parasites feeding off of our energy and life force. They keep us sick and weak, as well as conflicted and divided.

Until humanity addresses the problem of sociopaths, no real progress of our species is possible.

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Then (Dr. Robert) Hare came out with a startling proposal. He said that the recent corporate scandals could have been prevented if CEOs were screened for psychopathic behavior. “Why wouldn’t we want to screen them?” he asked. “We screen police officers, teachers. Why not people who are going to handle billions of dollars?” -- source

Why not screen our most important leadership positions for sociopaths and disqualify them from leadership? Wouldn't that be even more important? The President and Vice-President? Every member of Congress? Supreme Court Justices? Every top-level military commander?

If we had done that, our recent history would be diametrically different. There would be no 9/11. No Iraq war 1 and 2. No never-ending occupation of Afghanistan. No Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Trump. No U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Syria, or Libya. No dependence on fossil fuels. No suppression of free energy or low-cost medical cures. No persecution of whistle-blowers like Snowden or Assange. No aid to Israel. No conflict with Venezuela. No fake news or controlled press. No immersion in propaganda. No police state. No steady erosion of rights. No pursuit of mind control.

We are missing out on a world of unimaginable truth, progress, comfort, and abundance. All that is needed to change this world to one orders of magnitude better is to screen for sociopaths and disqualify them from positions of power and control.

We can supposedly put a man on the moon and we can't screen out sociopaths from leadership positions?

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When faced with the question of whether someone with ASPD can adhere to some form of a value system, Dr. Michael Stone, professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University—who often appears on television as a premier expert on psychopathy—says absolutely not.

"Cognitive empathy means you understand the facial expression of another person," he says. "It doesn't mean you give a damn about them." -- source

Dr. Stone is wrong. Sociopaths can adhere to some form of a value system. It's just that they value different things than normal people value.

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Stone is skeptical that there are any real psychopaths who manage to stay in the military, suggesting they lack the ability to assimilate into a highly structured and cohesive entity.

"For example, Chris Kyle—there's no indication that he was a psychopath," Stone says. "He had a solid marriage and cared deeply about his own people, and wanted to get rid of as many of the enemy as he could. He seems like a good soldier, not a negative personality. I would be dubious that anyone could describe snipers as sociopaths."

I point out that Kyle seemed to have an absolute disregard for the lives of anyone who wasn't American or a soldier.

"And what's wrong with that?" Stone laughs in response. "In World War Two, I'm sure there were some Russian snipers in Leningrad who saved many of their own by killing Nazis. And why not? Who the hell should care about killing Nazis? Why should their lives count for anything?" -- source

Why should their lives count for anything? Well they wouldn't, to a sociopath!

I see signs of sociopathy in Dr. Michael Stone. He reminds me of the case of Dr. Fallon:

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James Fallon, a neuroscientist and professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (who is himself a diagnosed psychopath)... -- source

When sociopaths become our experts on sociopathy, you have to wonder just how twisted things are getting.

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About four years ago, Murrie decided to study the PCL-R to look at what happened when a psychologist hired by the prosecution gave Dr. Robert Hare's test to the same prisoner as a psychologist hired by the defense.

Did those two psychologists give the same score to the same person?

The answer, says Murrie, was no. "Ten, 15, even 20-point score differences we found," he says, " And overall there was about an 8-point difference in scores." -- source

When a score of 30 or higher indicates a sociopath, an average 8 point difference based on the psychologist giving the test is unacceptably inaccurate.

And if the psychologist asking the questions can cause such a large variance, what about the sociopath answering the questions? Couldn't the sociopath easily cause an even larger variance? Sociopaths aren't dumb, you know. They are masters at "playing the game", and taking the PCL-R test for psychopathy is just a game for them, one that they will want to win by not being identified as a sociopath.

This is why fMRI brain scans are vastly superior to simple questionnaires.

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The cluster of traits and behaviors displayed by a sociopath, the symptoms of a sociopath, happen to be associated with certain patterns of activity in the brain. Brain scans can test for sociopathy.

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans show that sociopaths don't have the same patterns in response to emotional stimuli (either verbal or visual) that non-sociopaths do (Babiak & Hare, 2006).

  • Scans indicate that the brain of a sociopath shows the same response pattern for every stimulus while reaction patterns in a non-sociopath differ according to degree of emotion (Babiak & Hare, 2006).

  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) waves record details about how the brain processes information, and here, too, the brain of a sociopath behaves differently (Kiehl, 2014).
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Sociopaths cannot cheat on fMRI brain scans, as the measured response is not under the conscious control of the sociopath. It is essentially an automatic response on a very short time interval (on the order of less than one second).

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“There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You’ll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one’s position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.” -- Dr. Robert Hare

The higher up the "power and control" hierarchy you go, the greater the percentage of sociopaths you will find. While the general population may only consist of 2% sociopaths, I suspect at the highest levels of hierarchy this figure gets inverted, and 98% of the people at this level are sociopaths. It may even be 100%, as the sociopaths take an active role in eliminating any non-sociopaths who might rise to this level. In effect, sociopaths have a lock on the highest positions of power and control. It's a private club, and non-sociopaths need not apply.

The result is that sociopaths control humanity.



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Psychopaths succeed in conventional society in large measure because few of us grasp that they are fundamentally different from ourselves. We assume that they, too, care about other people’s feelings. This makes it easier for them to “play” us. Although they lack empathy, they develop an actor’s expertise in evoking ours. While they don’t care about us, “they have an element of emotional intelligence, of being able to see our emotions very clearly and manipulate them,” says Michael Maccoby, a psychotherapist who has consulted for major corporations. -- source

This is critical to understand. Normal people do not recognize sociopaths because they look at them from the perspective of normality, as in "He's just like me."

In other words, most people fail to identify sociopaths because:

  1. Sociopaths are pretending to be normal.
  2. Normal people default to seeing sociopaths as being normal.

So not only are sociopaths actively fooling the rest of us, but our default position, as trusting individuals, is to naturally assume that they are not fooling us.

It's a double whammy.

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