A wide phenomenon which always interests me is how bad things happen to good societies, or how people can use the appearance of good intentions to actually destroy civilisation.  Too much of a good thing, like eating nothing but ice cream kills you.  A humanitarian foundation is started and one day it becomes a cover for nothing but money ( Read more... )

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The People of the Lie can be read online here.

On the trail of the elusive  "successful psychopath."

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Phil in the Blanks: Toxic Personalities in the Real World Part 1

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I seem to have been awakened by a loud blast at about 1:am last night, although it might have been something else. Maybe something like my pillow and falling and hitting something. Or my dog's claws clanging upon the wooded chest. But, patterns do suggest that it could have been a blast, from a particular neighbour. I won't discuss this pattern, or ( Read more... )

I thought it would be nice to look at what drives the development of psychopathy, which could be called greed, an errant positive feedback loop, or a reward system. In this video, it is shown how greed can be an addiction bringing a person closer and closer to death. It emerges from anxiety over mortality and, in an effort to deny mortality, it ( Read more... )

( One thing I have learnt about controlaholics... )

I arranged the following videos for best educational or enjoyment effect. You can watch any, all or none of them any way you'd like. (There are a lot! This is really almost a full course on the subject). But my suggestion is not to hop around. If you don't have time, just get back to this post later. Hopefully, I'll indicate some videos which I ( Read more... )

Everyone knows about narcissists, even if they may get it a little wrong. Some people may think that a narcissist is someone infatuated with themself, in the manner of the mythical Narcissus, who fell into water and drowned because he could not stop staring at his own reflexion in the water. Symbolically, he drowned in is own vanity ( Read more... )

Psychopaths and narcissists share a majority of things in common. Both are empathy deficient; both are manipulative; both lie egregiously; both think they are the most important or correct person on the planet; both are immature and insecure; both deviously seek power or attention, and both are major pains in society's ass, because they both leave ( Read more... )

OK, here we go… I am able to think and write despite the level of fatigue. I am only able to do this by tossing out all other concerns or demands. Sit with me, won’t you? Put your feet up into the fireplace. Take your face off. Stop the clock snuff the wick and turn off the Borg. It’s Reality Check Time with Madison Man. Let’s chat a little about ( Read more... )