It’s basically the ideal American. I mean that’s what I understand from growing up here… That type of person is the person they taught us is successful.
It makes me feel like america makes monsters. It’s good for the business. And our nation is basically not much more than a business… Kinda like a Mafia family.
Sociopaths are everywhere - I suspect there’s a certain percentage born every year.
Ghengis Khan for example. Napoleon, the leaders of the Chinese tribes that united China (memory is failing me on this one).
I’m sure people can be taught this too, but to think the US has anywhere close to a monopoly on this is just bias. I’d venture that pretty much every politician above town level has some sociopathy in them, everywhere.
Look at how the House of Lords came to be? Ya think the king wasn’t being a sociopath, and the landed gentry were only protecting the interests of everyone who want king when they essentially blackmailed the king into agreeing with the Magna Carta (yet more sociopathy)?
Only someone lacking in empathy can make decisions that are major no-win, all the time. Not saying I agree with them, just I don’t see how one could survive if one’s empathy is developed, at all.
Sociopathy may be exception among the population as a whole, but clearly it exists pre-socialzation (I have a family member who was diagnosed as a kid), and it certainly has been a mainstay of leaders since the beginning of humanity
It’s basically the ideal American. I mean that’s what I understand from growing up here… That type of person is the person they taught us is successful.
It makes me feel like america makes monsters. It’s good for the business. And our nation is basically not much more than a business… Kinda like a Mafia family.
Sociopaths are everywhere - I suspect there’s a certain percentage born every year.
Ghengis Khan for example. Napoleon, the leaders of the Chinese tribes that united China (memory is failing me on this one).
I’m sure people can be taught this too, but to think the US has anywhere close to a monopoly on this is just bias. I’d venture that pretty much every politician above town level has some sociopathy in them, everywhere.
Look at how the House of Lords came to be? Ya think the king wasn’t being a sociopath, and the landed gentry were only protecting the interests of everyone who want king when they essentially blackmailed the king into agreeing with the Magna Carta (yet more sociopathy)?
Only someone lacking in empathy can make decisions that are major no-win, all the time. Not saying I agree with them, just I don’t see how one could survive if one’s empathy is developed, at all.
Sociopathy may be exception among the population as a whole, but clearly it exists pre-socialzation (I have a family member who was diagnosed as a kid), and it certainly has been a mainstay of leaders since the beginning of humanity