What Would a Psychopath Do? Here are Five Things
Psychopaths are predators without empathy. They don’t care. Psychopaths have a pattern of meanness and manipulation. They use their prodigious charisma, boldness and ability to stay calm in situations that would stress out or upset most people to manipulate, dominate, exploit and get over on their victims.
Psychopaths engage in predatory behavior for fun, because it gives their lives meaning– they feel superior, which feeds into the narcissistic personality disorder that most psychopaths comorbidly experience.
Psychopaths win at all costs. Well, the successful ones win doing anything that they can get away with. And psychopaths tend to be loners, or to get into profoundly dysfunctional, abusive relationships. There are psychologists who specialize in helping victims of psychopathic relationships.
So, reading the rantings of one psychopath, I started wondering: if psychopaths could change the rules to their benefit, what would they do? Here are a few ways that you might expect psychopaths to try to shape the culture, the narrative and the rules.
1- The first thing they’d do is to attack rules and regulations that require people to be civil, honest, ethical, fair and respectful to all others. They would attack the rules and regulations by attempting to characterized them negatively. They would use their charm and ability to lie with a straight face to persuade people that rules and regulations were designed to take away their freedom, to allow government to make more money, to take money away from hard working people.
2- Next, they’d create a cult of individualism, extolling the rights of a person to live as an individual, with the freedoms to be an individual. Think Ayn Rand– her characters and followers. This is a manifestation of narcissism, distorted to look like something special. It’s not. Humans evolved as members of small communities and groups. That is the natural way that humans have lived for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, if you include our predecessors.
3- They’ll sell the “I Did It On My Own” Story. Being loners and narcissists who want to get all the credit, who believe that they are the best in the world, Psychopaths would do all they could to sell the narrative that people make it on their own, that the idea that government or the commons, or social networks or social safety nets make a difference. They would mock people who suggest that it takes a village, or that millionaires made their millions with the help of the society around them.
4- Oppose Democracy, Fair, Honest Voting and voting rights for all. Psychopaths may love hierarchy and the domination associated with it. They love the challenge of rising to the top and the game of getting there. Democracy is an inconvenience that can create an egalitarian environment of fair play and just rules. That’s no fun. Psychopaths would love to see those kinds of inconveniences done away with. So they’ll try to muck up the voting system, try to take away direct representation and direct elections. They’ll rig the system — think gerrymandering– and yes, both major parties do it. It’s bi-partisan. They’ll change the rules so that they give extra advantage to those with extra power and money, especially to those who will cheat. And they’ll do all they can to take away the right to vote, especially people who will oppose their selfish interests.
5- Damage the Environment: Psychopaths, being self-centered and narcissistic, and not caring about laws or rules or consequences or other people are going to be more likely to abuse and damage the environment. Who cares if the water is polluted downstream as long as the psychopath can buy bottled water for his or her mansion? Who cares if climate change will disrupt the lives of billions and cost trillions if there’s a profit to be made?
I’m not saying that anyone who advocates for the kinds of changes and policies that I speculate psychopaths would want is a psychopath. The more I learn about psychopathy the more it becomes clear to me that there is a psychopathy continuum– some people have some of the traits and some people have more of the traits. But if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck…
What would YOU predict a psychopath would do, in terms of behaviors that we see nowadays?
Excerpt from “What Would a Psychopath Do? Here are Five Things” by Rob Kall, May 2014
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anjiandmatt 10:33 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
pretty much our reality huh?..
shame, because we could be so much more…
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nowve666 10:44 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
You are describing right-wing politicians. James Fallon is a libertarian which seems like the political philosophy tailor made for psychopaths. But in a forum for psychopaths I was on someone asked everyone to weigh in with their political beliefs and people were all over the charts politically. I agree that most politicians are psychopaths or narcissists, many espouse progressive ideas. But what they deliver is more of the same. Look at Obama. I think their political positions are determined by what demographic they are going after. Their only political position is wanting to win. But eliminating psychopaths and narcs would leave us with no government. These are the only kind of people who win elections and/or work that hard to win. I just vote for whoever promises are closest to my own views and hope he makes good on some promises.
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James 11:13 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
Here’s one psychopath who voted for Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership elections. And yes, those elections are only open to Labour Party members and supporters.
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nowve666 12:12 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
I’m voting for Bernie Sanders. I voted for Obama in ’08 but not on ’12.
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Amaterasu Solar 16:09 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
Heh. The corporation, THE UNITED STATES, masquerading as “Our” controlmind, is NOT going to let Us choose Their CEO. “Voting” is to give You the illusion You are in control. Just saying.
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Amaterasu Solar 16:17 on September 13, 2015 Permalink |
I would argue most of those on that list. Most of the rules and regulations are created by psychopaths to protect Their interests… Only the three Laws of Ethics (which are the ONLY Laws, and are not rules and regulations) need apply. I am a staunch Individualist, believing We ALL should be free under the three Laws of Ethics. And I oppose “voting” because it is giving consent to a system that promotes psychopaths, and oppose democracy as it is mob rule (I support Ethical Consensus).
I do support organics, thoughtful development, and stewardship of Our planet.
But I am surely NOT a psychopath despite all there that I would dispute.
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Jul 09:18 on December 26, 2020 Permalink |
I guess 75% of the United States is composed of psychopaths, because most of them support those very things. Only a fringe left, about 8-10%, but very vocal, are against all those things. 10 %, very interesting. Plus they run the media, Social media, and perhaps this site.
Maybe the left are the real psychopaths! They want unfair advantage. They make rules but don’t expect to follow them. Do the very things they accuse you of doing. Want to micromanage everything, but don’t really care about the results, choosing to explain away failures with ” it wasn’t real socialism”. Always pushing groups to hide individual contribution and thus dull willingness to work. They reward those who don’t produce, while belittle and downgrade those who do produce. Whine about profit, while putting people in labor camps as slaves(China comes to mind). I could write a book about this stuff. You get the idea.
Interesting world we live in. It is not perfect, but I will always take that which works over that which doesn’t. I will choose peace, but I am not afraid to fight. An orderly world is much better, because less people suffer. Some people do want to be manipulated into doing good things. It is a game. Some don’t. You have the left on one side(trying to “obsessively change” everything because they have empathy), and leaders on the other(trying to do something). You have the conservatives and moderates in the middle, who are happy with things as they are. If you misrepresent things enough, you might then get mob rule.
You can only do it by whipping up the left to get everyone else to do something. Left is easy to aggravate. They hide irresponsibility by insisting on some form of mob rule. Unfortunately an unscrupulous person with emotional awareness will use the leftists to get what he wants, then remove the leftists before they can cause him any problems. That’s why the leftists are always the first for the concentration camps.
Trying to start a witch hunt is no different that this gimmick. But it will not work. The warning has been around for over a decade for gimmicks such as yours. The surprise is we want every man to live his life in peace. Because a peaceful world is to my best interest as well as yours. You are not an old woman. There is much that you do not know. You have quite a few years to learn a lot more things, and you certainly will, and be wiser for it. Until then, good luck
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