How Psychopaths Manipulate Society
They have told us that, like domestic cattle, we need their fences (controls) and their oversight (surveillance) to protect us from the wolves (or terrorists) that would come and decimate us and our little ones and we have been told that the world is a terrible hostile place and that life is fraught with adversaries, a self–fulfilling prophecy when societies and cultures are governed by psychopaths. Their measures are in reality to make us defensive, terrorised and so easily influenced and ultimately such fear will intellectually infantilise us, divide us and then herd us like cattle for a more thorough and systematic control and exploitation.
Psychopaths and their constructs (ie corporations, political parties) need to be identified, avoided and isolated in such a manner that they have no further destructive influences over places of control, or critical decision-making. Competition spawns few winners and many losers, in an insidious hierarchy of exploitation. The organs of society, which have been perverted to reflect psychopathic ways and objectives should be rebuilt, eradicating competition and using our empathetically acquired higher intelligence, focussed on mutual benefit with true environmental synergy and creativity as its new core.
The psychopath is operating cognitively at what Economics Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman called “System1” or fast thinking, this is a cognitive template that is in place in infancy, the processes of which are situated largely within the limbic system, memory based and emotionally controlled. This type of primitive “fast and dirty” thinking, when amplified through trial and error experiences, is ideal for operating in chaotic and conflict based environments such as on the battlefield or in video games.
“System2” thinking or slow thinking, on the other hand, is rational, considerate and logical, so being both analytical and constructive, it takes time. The cognitive processes of “System2” take place largely cortically, in the areas of higher brain function and when fully evolved, utilise those higher cognitive functions acquired only through seeking mutually beneficial relationships with others and the environment. This type of advanced slow and empathetic thinking is ideal for dealing with relationships, creativity and complexity.
“System1” or thinking “intuitively” (more like presumptuously) utilises formulae, recipes, scenarios and scripts for actions memorised and recalled in part from past experiences or mimicked from observing the “successful” actions of others in similar circumstances. As Kahneman points out, it is fraught with impulse, assumption and error. Its ONLY real advantages are for fast reflexive responses in conflict and competitive based survival environments where immediacy is the critical factor.
Psychopaths are not just identified by their lack of empathy and conscience and their ruthless, manipulative, single-minded, narcissistic and opportunistic ways, but also by their almost total lack of application of “System2” thinking. This means that they have a severe inability to deal with complexity, the welfare of others, or with any further effects of their actions beyond their immediate self-serving objective!
Competition/Conflict is the life’s blood of the psychopath and the ultimate psychological contagion that can only be eradicated through a clarity, understanding and then avoidance of the cyclical processes between psychopathy/sociopathy and competition as a human dynamic. Instead we must choose a different path through the conscious development of empathetic mutuality and the consequential maturation of the “System 2” thinking, creativity and complex thinking that gradually arises from such a choice.
To understand the effect of the psychopath fully, we must be aware that the retarded infantile nature of his thinking and behaviour and his incapability of creative endeavour, keeps him in an infantile dependent state. He can only take, or be given what he needs and desires, so he focusses greatly on his infantile skills of manipulating others to meet his needs. He does this in a way that is amplified and sophisticated by many years of trial and error experience at “pushing people’s emotional buttons” using the emotional tactics of seduction, rejection and menace in all their variations.
Unfortunately the psychopath’s attributes of control are uniquely successful in divisive competitive environments like politics and economics, where whole populations have been both intellectually and empathetically suppressed in their development through the cradle to the grave application of competition. For most of us, in order to compete, we have been coerced into attempting to apply seriously faulty “system1” thinking to every aspect of our lives, literally “in the heat of battle” and as a result have abandoned our fertile and complex cognitive potentials.
Education has now been perverted to where its major function is to prepare us for employment in very competitive environments under the direction of psychopaths or their processes and so, by default, pedagogy focusses on the simplistic and “quick and dirty” “system1” limbic memory based cognitive template and the competitive tactics of the psychopath. It is further based on the unspoken assumption that working life is about taking instruction from authorities in the form of recipes, formulae, scripts and scenarios, remembering them in detail and then following them accurately to get the result the instructor demanded.
The price we pay for an education based almost entirely on system1 thinking is that we have severely stunted our cognitive potentials to where most of us are unable to conceptualise or build our own matrixes of understanding about any subject and then going on to create integrated maps of reality. Instead we rely on supposed “authorities” like mainstream media, politicians and “accredited sources” to inform us about their values, their worldview and what they deem should be considered important in life. And, these authorities are most often controlled by psychopaths.
Excerpts from “The Way of the Psychopath” by Duncan MacMartin, July 2015
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nowve666 13:52 on December 17, 2015 Permalink |
Dear Tina,
I went to the original source of the article you quoted in order to read the whole thing. What strikes me at once is the complaint that we are “domesticated like cattle” so much like a complaint a psychopath might make. I guess anyone with spirit would feel disgusted at the tameness of the average citizen, how easily he/she is controlled by the government, the media and the educational system. The article says psychopaths are on the top, running the whole show, something you have often said as well. I’m sure some psychopaths are in the 1% running things but I think the machine which runs “civilization” contains a multiplicity of personalities, just as the 99% has its fair number of psychopaths. Isn’t the “anti-social personality” just a label for those who refuse to play along with their assigned role?
I agree that the 1% are parasitic and that the 99% is a lot like cattle with the exception of a small number who try to lead a revolution. Getting these “cattle” stirred up to do anything besides enrich their masters is what optimists would call “a heavy lift” and pessimists would call “impossible.”
Having described the ills of society and not psychopathy, Duncan MacMartin quotes an economist to describe our “pathology.” Odd to rely on an economist to paint a psychological portrait of a class of people. But, since this article really is more an indictment on our economic system than anything else, it is appropriate. Psychopaths engage in what the economist, “Daniel Kahneman called ‘System1’ or fast thinking, this is a cognitive template that is in place in infancy, the processes of which are situated largely within the limbic system, memory based and emotionally controlled.” So infants are not the innocent and trusting creatures we thought them to be? They are powerful manipulators? Hard to believe Daniel Kahneman really made such a preposterous statement. If so, he really needs to stick to economics and leave the understanding of both infants and psychopaths to those more qualified.
Psychopathic thinking is “primitive ‘fast and dirty’ thinking when amplified through trial and error experiences is ideal for operating in chaotic and conflict based environments such as on the battlefield or in video games.” In other words, it is the thinking of people or animals living in a wild, survival-of-the-fittest situation. Interesting how the article compares most people to cattle, domesticated animals, and psychopaths to wild, undomesticated animals who thrive best in the jungle. Somehow, I don’t see wolves controlling cattle. It would be very clever of them, if they could but beyond the ability of any creature of the jungle.
But somehow, these “cattle” are superior to the wolves in sheep’s clothing that control them. As opposed to psychopaths, their thinking, “‘System2’ thinking or slow thinking, on the other hand, is rational, considerate and logical, so being both analytical and constructive, it takes time. The cognitive processes of ‘System2’ take place largely cortically, in the areas of higher brain function and when fully evolved, utilise those higher cognitive functions acquired only through seeking mutually beneficial relationships with others and the environment.” These highly evolved souls have somehow ceded their power to wolves, or psychopaths. “They have told us that, like domestic cattle, we need their fences (controls) and their oversight (surveillance) to protect us from the wolves (or terrorists) that would come and decimate us and our little ones and we have been told that the world is a terrible hostile place and that life is fraught with adversaries, a self–fulfilling prophecy when societies and cultures are governed by psychopaths.” I quite agree that the way the ruling class rules through fear is contemptible. For this reason, I despise society with it’s sheep-like constituents. I don’t blame psychopaths for the average person’s cowardice. People need to take responsibility for themselves. Until they do, they deserve the inglorious title of “sheeple.”
Interesting how similar our thinking can be while leading to such opposite conclusions on the subject of psychopaths. I maintain, however, that we cannot shed light on psychopathy by examining the pathology of society. Most people are not psychopaths and they sustain the status quo. I also can’t really blame the 1% to letting a bunch of suckers allow themselves to be milked as the cattle that they choose to be.
Sincerely,
Fran Nowve
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@GeneticPsycho (Tina) 11:00 on December 18, 2015 Permalink |
All good points except I think you went off the track with the passage on infants being manipulative. You appear to have misunderstood what “in place” means.
All it takes is for complete domination is a few psychopaths appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Ray Randy 12:52 on June 12, 2021 Permalink |
I think Fran missed the point entirely.
Duncan nailed a much bigger window opening. Psychopaths are found to be everywhere any human can be. He illustrated quite well their behaviors in many areas. Those he named were fitted where they might turn up in life such as an Economist. He wasn’t writing about economics, but how a psychopath would, and could find himself and how he’d behave within said position.
She’s unable to see the trees for all the wood that’s in the way.
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Jul 00:05 on July 15, 2021 Permalink |
As always, it’s interesting to read the essays you write. While I might disagree with much of the “thinking” that you put behind your ideas, it is important that people see alternative viewpoints. However, I am forced to admit that a lot of what you wrote here is incomplete, in that not a single point was covered in enough completeness to be coherent in itself.
What do you mean by society? A good one, a functioning one, a non-functional one, just what the heck do you mean? Look around you Tina, please name one thing on earth that works at all. One! Read the history books(I’ve been asking you to do that for years, and you don’t seem to listen).
You concentrate on a paltry %age of people and ignore the actions of the other 90%, as though they are not important. Unfortunately, psychopaths don’t assign as much unimportance to humanity that you seem to imply, or they’d not so much time figuring out how humans work and try to get some production out of them,or whatever else gets done with men, which isn’t really the topic of your feed.
I am guessing, based on your dearth of interest in history, that you’d be talking about current events. If you employed any amount of logic, ie, a study of data, you’d see that the social media, governments, financial giants are the sole arbiters of power on earth. So anyone who controls those three, is effectively running the world. Trump was shut down by all three, so of course social media, other governments, and finacial giants have more power than he does. The only question you’d have to ask is, who has control over those. And when you do that, you just started down the rabbit hole. I am not interested in that topic at all, but there are a lot who are, for all the good it will do.
There are many kinds of logic. Logic is a method of organizing data. That means you could have an infinity of logic. Insanity is itself a kind of logic that makes sense only to the one person who practises it. Pretending that there are only two ways of dealing with data is a self-delusion you should work on curing from within yourself. The world doesn’t work that way.
There is a logic involved in creating a mindset that results in getting things done. A mindset that gets things done is the reason you get food on the table, the reason that the economy is kept working, the reason that the 95% of the people who don’t give a crap if they live or die somehow manage to find enough people who keep working so the world doesn’t stop spinning.
That being said, it’s only an entertainment skit. It’s not always that simple. Weakness doesn’t help anyone. Mankind didn’t become the top animal on this planet because he was the weakest, it was because he was the strongest.
Psychosis is having a mind, and using it towards things that are designed to fail, or which do not approximate the goal at all. It is hard to work out which one, among most of whom comprise humanity, isn’t trying to fail. Certainly laziness is a long road to death. Stupidity will also get you there. Criminals acts will you there as well, and quick. Concentrating on things that don’t work, which criticizing things that do work is also a form of psychosis as well.
In short, Tina, pretty much everyone on earth has a decent amount of psychosis, yourself included. You might have a lot more of it that a lot of those people you call “psychopaths”, but, at the end of the day, this stuff doesn’t really matter. We are all in this world. It’s being run like you’d run a prison where you want the prisoners to die before they can work out how to leave. Fat chance of that.
Let’s keep this world running. Keep the people fed. Stop maiming people while pretending to help them. Stop criticizing that which others chose just because you don’t seem to like it. Yada Yada.
One day, I will tell you what I think a psychopath is, and you probably won’t agree with me at all. I don’t even think the “psychopaths” here will agree with me either. I have looked at quite a few things, thought a little bit, and it is possible I might be in the right direction.
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Tina (GeneticPsychosMom) 00:25 on October 15, 2021 Permalink |
Gotta tell ya, I grew up in a family of psychopaths, and they do not have “psychosis”. They are simply selfish. Get an education.
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Jul 22:11 on October 20, 2021 Permalink |
Is that so, Tina? What exactly is wrong with being “selfish? You seem to think your ideas really matter a lot, which is why you run a blog based on them. That would make you very selfish, even dictatorial, about your ideas. If selfishness is the only problem with “psychopaths”, why do you target them so much? Have you nothing constructive to do with your time that you keep going after a minority segment of people while there is a majority of them that actually work out well for you?
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Tina (GeneticPsychosMom) 21:47 on October 26, 2021 Permalink |
Thank you for noticing that I think that my ideas really matter a lot because I’m like every other person WITH IDEAS. I don’t target psychopaths, I target the education of the detrimental effect that psychopaths have on nice people and running a functional society. They are serious boundary crossers so they need babysitters to keep them from doing too much damage. That comes along with having a neurological birth defect.
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Jul 23:40 on January 19, 2022 Permalink |
Tunnel vision. You focus on 5% of the population, but are boxing in everyone in order to trap that. I always ask these kinds of questions. Is it worth the effort? The authors of the Great Reset would not survive your test, Fauci the liar wouldn’t either. Neither would all democrats but 2, nor any republicans than about 5. While men are patently dishonest, how do you go about ascertaining what data is valid so you can then use that? You are guilty of the sin of being human. You have no right whatsoever to argue how we shoukd conduct our lives. We have representatives fir that. You should ruj for political office in your area, and that’d give the citizens in your arwa a chance ti decide.
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Tina (GeneticPsychosMom) 19:23 on January 20, 2022 Permalink |
Everyone has the right whatsoever to argue how we should conduct our lives. Right to life is an example. You try so hard to stop me, but you mostly don’t make sense.
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