Root cause of all problems today

[covent]

This is true and empathy and highfunction not really go together too much at top of western civilization! Being able to fake empathy though, haha, that is where magic is at, Mr BillClinton! Even DonaldTrump not that good a liar.

Is dirty little secret child raise technique for 'proper' such. Boarding schools, football scrums, horror nannies and nun. Beat it out of you. First numb to self, then others. Trick like when littleshit baby cry, put rubber band around wrist and snap every time until they ignore their pain. How to raise a monster. Elite schooling then just polishing a turd.

Very deliberate practices, hidden and made culturally anathama so the lowers don't catch on and compete perhaps. Spare rod spoil child.

Other nurture factors in play. Parents who tell their offspring, ''you are better than those other people''. This begins the superiority complex that leads to reduced empathy, increases self-entitlement and separates the child from their peers.

[covent]

At least we should demand that anyone wanting to be a politician or work in government should be checked for being a pyschopath and given the boot. It be a good start if we did

How would checks be made?

A long time ago, psychopaths were labelled criminally insane. They were identified as having the YY chromosome. I have not seen any recent info on this, no studies showing psychopathy prevalence and comparisons across any bio-marker groups.

If there is any evidence for biological indicators, a simple blood test could suffice but without that, what reliable method could be used to test?

[Roma]

I don't think the psychopaths or sociopaths are the root cause.  Dig deeper.  What drives them?  Is it money, power, control?  Greed.  Like the old saying goes, what does a man with power want?  More power.

[Karl12]

Want to know the root cause of problems being caused in the world today?

Pyschopaths is the reason.

Personally reckon the number one reason for that is folks (or tribes) thinking other folks (or tribes) are somehow 'superior' to others (non provable belief systems being one of the main exchange mechanisms).

We are all one species and don't suppose a zoologist would be considered sane if he thought certain orangutans were 'better' than others - the exact same applies to us lol.

As for genuine psychos - most large multinational corporations (and sought after CEO's) are inherently psychopathic by design.





Cheers.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Maybe someone should write a book about what happens to paradise when pyschopaths have full reign over the planet

They have many times?



For when Milton or The Mandate for Leadership doesn't work. Probably still too apathetic though.

Psychopaths have always been great leaders. Antisocial personality disorder is great for manipulating the social. And in a capitalist-oligarch-meritocratic society it is impossible to keep them from their own glory.

Especially the inherited psychos.

Even our own California-groomed for politics governor is probably also a psychopath. And he even looks close to the dashing American Psycho killer. Does Newsom feed stray cats to ATM machines? You just dont know. But that outward charm and pretty boy aesthetic makes him more like an JFK Jr.

With leaders it's always going with the devil you know.

[Karl12]

[sahgwa]

I suppose I could basically agree with you. I would just substitute psychopathy with ego.  That may be too vague though so I can perhaps narrow it down to immature selfishness. 

Most world problems <- immature selfishness <- social media <- bad parenting 
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Barbarism begins at home!

[Nerb]

How would checks be made?

A long time ago, psychopaths were labelled criminally insane. They were identified as having the YY chromosome. I have not seen any recent info on this, no studies showing psychopathy prevalence and comparisons across any bio-marker groups.

If there is any evidence for biological indicators, a simple blood test could suffice but without that, what reliable method could be used to test?

[Maxmars]

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Nailed it!

[Karl12]

Bravo to all the folks here -some extremely insightful insights which sometimes make me consider my position - suppose that is all you can ask for really x