Re: Official Culture in America: A Natural State of Psychopathy?

**This article claims that it is the 'mass media' that are responsible.
They may well be part of the problem, the 'educational' system must be
another. It's ripe material for conspiracy theory, though. The dystopic
books that I've mentioned posit wicked people deliberately arranging
things that way. Has that happened in Yankland, or has it come about by
a process of unguided degeneration? **

Hi,
Well I agree that the eyes closed long ago.

IMO it's deliberate arranging by pathocrats that are in power,
especially in Yankland where I have the misfortune to live.

Without psychopathic influence I think people would make much kinder
choices.

A quote from Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D.
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm

" Long periods of preoccupation with the self and "accumulating
benefits" for the self, diminish the ability to accurately read the
environment and other people. [...]It is this feature, this
hystericization of society, that enables pathological plotters, snake
charmers, and other primitive deviants to act as essential factors in
the processes of the origination of evil on a macro-social scale."

-and the following comment-

We see exactly this pattern of social development in the United States
over the past 50 to 60 years or even more. The fact is, many people who
may have been born "normal" have become what might be termed
"secondary psychopaths" or characteropaths due to the influence of
psychopathy on American culture from many fields - including science,
medicine, psychology, law, etc - where they are conscious of what they
are doing to "normal" people!

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