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Is George Bush A Psychopath? By Dr. Kevin Barrett/Silvia Cattori [View All]

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Is George Bush A Psychopath? By Dr. Kevin Barrett/Silvia Cattori
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Is George Bush A Psychopath?
by Dr. Kevin Barrett/Silvia Cattori

I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn't seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.

The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security through domination. The inventor of civilization, "the first tribal chieftain who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers," was almost certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in civilizational hierarchies -- especially military hierarchies.

Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld -- the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks below it.

During the past fifty years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really take him to task. All of the so called scandals that have come up, any one of which would have taken down an authentic administration, are just farces played out for the public, to distract them, to make them think that the democracy is still working.

One of the main factors to consider in terms of how a society can be taken over by a group of pathological deviants is that the psychopaths' only limitation is the participation of susceptible individuals within that given society. Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active deviants of approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5% other psychopathies and characteropathies.) The essential psychopath is at the center of the web. The others form the first tier of the psychopath's control system.

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  Is George Bush A Psychopath? By Dr. Kevin Barrett/Silvia Cattori Echo In Light  Jun-03-08 08:21 AM   #0 
   He is definitely a 'sociopath' without a true conscience.  Lint Head   Jun-03-08 08:31 AM   #1 
   I only wish that those professionals would come forward  alyce douglas   Jun-03-08 08:36 AM   #2 
   I think he is. I'd like to see an fMRI done on him and let's see the result...  Triana   Jun-03-08 08:41 AM   #3 
   lots of cops and prison guards are psychopaths as well, IMO....  rdenney   Jun-03-08 12:27 PM   #13 
   Bookmarked  formercia   Jun-03-08 08:45 AM   #4 
   K & R.  laststeamtrain   Jun-03-08 09:02 AM   #5 
   Bumpity  Echo In Light   Jun-03-08 10:37 AM   #6 
   Short answer:  LynnTheDem   Jun-03-08 10:40 AM   #7 
   And worse still, surrounded by numerous like-minded enablers  Echo In Light   Jun-03-08 10:41 AM   #8 
   Definitely  lunatica   Jun-03-08 11:00 AM   #9 
   Bush is certainly a psychopath  Hydra   Jun-03-08 11:53 AM   #10 
   that was a great article  leftchick   Jun-03-08 12:19 PM   #11 
   skull and crossbones n/t  barbtries   Jun-04-08 07:10 AM   #28 
   Yea, I think he is.......however, so is Big Dick Cheney...someone  cboy4   Jun-03-08 12:20 PM   #12 
   kick for later eom  ellenfl   Jun-03-08 01:57 PM   #14 
   Yes . . . and they surround themselves with fellow psychopaths . . .  defendandprotect   Jun-03-08 02:01 PM   #15 
   I read that a while back. Excellent. Not completely sold (almost though), but a great read.  chaska   Jun-03-08 02:42 PM   #16 
   Busholini is a Silver Spoon Sociopath.  Disturbed   Jun-03-08 03:09 PM   #17 
   K & R!!! read the whole article n/t  windoe   Jun-03-08 04:40 PM   #18 
   No.... He's just fucked up in the head.  lpbk2713   Jun-03-08 04:47 PM   #19 
   Psychopathology is a scientific category, but with no scientific (currently) method of detection  pathwhisperer   Jun-03-08 08:43 PM   #20 
   Your discourse would be a bit more impressive  Jackpine Radical   Jun-04-08 12:45 AM   #22 
      I use the term "sociopath" because it's less pejorative  pathwhisperer   Jun-04-08 12:32 PM   #29 
   yes  samsingh   Jun-04-08 12:26 AM   #21 
   indeed  seemslikeadream   Jun-04-08 12:54 AM   #23 
   "ye will know them by their Fuck Ups"...Mongo, Rock Ridge....  opihimoimoi   Jun-04-08 01:04 AM   #24 
   Sociopath, perhaps.  DarkTirade   Jun-04-08 01:07 AM   #25 
   Is molten lava hot?  jmondine   Jun-04-08 01:18 AM   #26 
   Civilization is "evil" in itself  ikhor   Jun-04-08 01:36 AM   #27 
 

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