How Will the 99% Deal with 70 Million Psychopaths?
Did you know that roughly one person in a hundred is clinically a psychopath? These individuals are either born with an emotional deficiency that keeps them from feeling bad about hurting others or they are traumatized early in life in a manner that causes them to become this way. With more than 7 billion people on the planet that means there are as many as 70,000,000 psychopaths alive today. These people are more likely to be risk takers, opportunists motivated by self-interest and greed, and inclined to dominate or subjugate those around them through manipulative means.
Last year, the Occupy Movement drew a distinction between the top 1% and the remaining 99% — as distinguished by measures of wealth and income. Of course, this breakdown is misleading since there are many top income earners who sympathize with the plights of others and are not part of the problem. Now the real defining metric reveals itself: 1% of the global population is comprised of people who exhibit psychopathic tendencies.
The global economy we have today is built on a deep history of top-down hierarchies that promote domination and control. There have been plenty of feudal lords, warrior chieftains, and violent dictators throughout the last 6000 years of burgeoning civilization. The modern era saw the ascension of “corporate personhood” as an amoral entity enshrined into law by an 1886 ruling of the US Supreme Court. This provided a new mechanism for mobilizing capital by the moneyed elites to deploy their wealth into the realm of public policy and civil society — creating the dysfunctional economic system we must now contend with as we struggle to address global challenges.
We find ourselves in a situation where economic philosophies that celebrate selfishness can be implemented through a web of legal and financial tools that elevate and reward those individuals with psychological tendencies toward self-interest — the same people who also have a predisposition to game social contexts to their advantage regardless of impacts on others. Thus the psychopathic corporation was forged as a Frankenstein monster that enabled the constant flow of psychopathic blood, continuously replenished by the 1% of the population born into psychopathy in each new generation, to rise into positions of power as stock traders, corporate executives, and corruptible politicians.
What can we do collectively to contain and manage this small minority of people who are driven by selfish motives with no concern for others? How must we include them in our plans so that global civilization can transition to a configuration of peaceful cooperation and environmental balance? This is the defining question for global financial stability and environmental sustainability. It runs right to the core of our inability to garner collective action on such systemic challenges as climate change, global poverty, and corporate corruption. It is the central issue of political power that has so far eluded our environmental and social justice movements.
We can start to sketch out the solution by drawing on cross-disciplinary research about human nature and our evolutionary past. The key questions are:
What are the evolutionary advantages for having psychopaths in the gene pool?
How did our ancestors keep their anti-social tendencies in check?
What is the positive role for psychopaths that needs to be preserved in the new economic system?
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luverley 15:28 on June 2, 2015 Permalink |
Great question it is one I’m willing to answer once I’ve learnt enough about them. I think the world needs educating hugely about the types of people there are out there and how they work.
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Amaterasu Solar 19:39 on June 2, 2015 Permalink |
Here’s My solution: Remove the systems that promote psychopaths to power (accounting for Our energy input (money) and top-down controlmind. Stop consenting to these systems.
Expect behavior chosen within Ethics. Without the systems that promote psychopaths there will be little motivation to defraud or to take or damage the belongings of anOther – except on an interpersonal level, which I doubt We can solve for, but it is such a small aspect of the problem, clearly We will be much better off. Deliberately hurting or killing Others without Their fully informed consent has no motive beyond the personal either – and there is no avenue to control beyond personal interaction/presentation. No buying toadies.
Lock the dangerous Ones up and shun the distasteful Ones. I suspect most psychopaths can choose to live within Ethics, and if not, Those who care will solve for the problem.
This is not as impossible as it sounds. Imagine if We started using a central site to report and solve problems and ignored the Few who are left trying to make that set of systems run?
The more who know We CAN, the more likely it will be to manifest.
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“ALL money systems promote the most psychopathic to the top of the money/power heap – THEY will do ANYTHING to get there.”
“The ONLY tool They use is money, and I say We can put that down and pick up far better tools.”
“The love of money is the root of all evil; remove the soil in which the root grows…”
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nowve666 21:07 on May 11, 2017 Permalink |
“Last year, the Occupy Movement drew a distinction between the top 1% and the remaining 99% — as distinguished by measures of wealth and income. Of course, this breakdown is misleading since there are many top income earners who sympathize with the plights of others and are not part of the problem.”
You really think their sympathy removes them from being part of the problem? That’s very naive. The problem is systemic. People play their parts in the system regardless of their sympathies. For example, Obama seemed very interested in helping the 99% when he was running for office but, once he was sitting in the Oval Office, he assumed the role of administrator of the US Empire. Even Trump changed once he assumed office. His politics went from neoconservative to neoliberal. The system controls people more than one would imagine.
“Now the real defining metric reveals itself: 1% of the global population is comprised of people who exhibit psychopathic tendencies.”
What about psychopaths who are socialists? Like James and myself. Changing the system from capitalism to socialism would do more to help the 99% (of which we are part) than blaming psychopaths for all the problems in this sick, sad world.
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Amaterasu Solar 21:24 on May 11, 2017 Permalink |
When One grasps that Obama and Trump are playing the roles written into the script, O being very good at pretending to care, Trump very good at pretending to be “outside the system,” but They ALL get Their script from the psychopaths in control. The Ones who own all the corporations around the globe that We call “governments,” and ALL of the “leaders” are playing Their parts. Behind the scenes They are good buds, yukking it up that We beLIEve the play is “reality,” slapping One anOther on the back while raping and murdering Our children in Their sick pedo rituals.
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