What If The Bible Is Really True? Parts 1 & 2

[Seshmeister]

Surely the ability to communicate effectively with people requires a sense of empathy? That is, giving people want they want requires you to understand that they want it and why....

You can understand what people want without giving a flying fuck whether they get it or not. Think of a David Koresh type character.

Like most good ideas mine about psychopaths in power has been had before many times, I've been doing some reading.

e.g.

http://www.apbusinesscontacts.com/the_people_bulletin-pb_9/snakes.aspx

[chefcraig]

You can understand what people want without giving a flying fuck whether they get it or not. Think of a David Koresh type character.

Like most good ideas mine about psychopaths in power has been had before many times, I've been doing some reading.

e.g.

http://www.apbusinesscontacts.com/th..._9/snakes.aspx

I think the more appropriate word for nutjobs in power would be "sociopath". These lunatics have many of the same personality traits as psychopaths, but they are manifested in a far more frightening way. Every so often, the rage, guilt or whatever it is that is being repressed uncorks like a volcano. Just look at that IMF chief Strauss-Kahn. To just about everyone, the guy seemed like a brilliant economist, as his education and career would seem to back this up. Still, there were rumblings here and there throughout that same career about sexual misconduct, the latest of which is front page news here in the States.

The point has been made elsewhere that we have pretty much gotten to an era when a political figure goes on a crusade against something, the act pretty much conveys the fact that in reality they covet what is being derided. Sociopaths are far more cunning than to take a stand against things they secretly enjoy. They simply rarely mention the subject, and when they do, it is with an offhanded glibness that comes across so smooth as to be calculated. And that in and of itself is a tell.

[Seshmeister]

The sex thing fits with the whole0 hypothesis.

I don't think the fact that almost all of these guys cheat so much can only just be because of the aphrodisiac of power or that they have more opportunity.

I'm not just talking bankers and politicians. Top clinicians and academics I meet are the same, fucking anything that moves.

[chefcraig]

The sex thing points out another angle, that of total self-absorption and an inability to love anyone but themselves. And the constant cheating in order to quell desire more often displays a self-destructive disconcern with the consequences of their actions, which you'd think would be totally at odds with their controlling nature. Then again, these creeps are in fact bananas, so I guess logic goes right out the window. So much for self preservation.

[Seshmeister]

I guess the flipside to this is that it means Ace Diamond would be perfect marriage material.

[chefcraig]

Wouldn't exactly surprise the living shit out of me, as history seems to have proven that I certainly am not.

[ashstralia]

The sex thing points out another angle, that of total self-absorption and an inability to love anyone but themselves. And the constant cheating in order to quell desire more often displays a self-destructive disconcern with the consequences of their actions, which you'd think would be totally at odds with their controlling nature. Then again, these creeps are in fact bananas, so I guess logic goes right out the window. So much for self preservation.

'the game'. this type also thinks it is far too clever and above everyone else to ever get caught, so the risk taking escalates. it's a common theme in criminology, also.

[hideyoursheep]

Sorry to sound cynical but it's only a matter of time before someone starts a thread on the space shuttle and you reply 'well when I flew Columbia...'

I know. It's like he's seen, done, been and experienced everything.

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[chefcraig]

Sorry to sound cynical but it's only a matter of time before someone starts a thread on the space shuttle and you reply 'well when I flew Columbia...'