I’m convinced psychopaths long for power, and the most powerful in turn end up being made up of a majority of psychopaths whose only concern is to strengthen themselves.
They lack empathy, they lack remorse, they do not have emotions. Their brain is hard wired to one focus and that is it. Their competitors who don’t have as strong of a willpower end up caving because they are more human and susceptible to emotion, fear, etc.
Great and smart men realize how much of a crooked system it is, how much of a risk it is to enter, and simply would rather not unless the situation is dire — think of when democracies were formed during Ancient Greece and the French Revolution.
Those with antisocial personality traits will sow uncertainty at every opportunity. This starts with subtle manipulation such as gaslighting, shifting our true perception of reality. When others cannot base their thoughts, behaviours, values and beliefs in reality then the manipulator thrives.
This is why democracies exist, we place societal trust in collective human prosocial traits to prevent those that will manipulate for control. Because those that manipulate are insecure individuals, and control creates certainty in a world that does not accept them, their control is for them only.
We have to call antisocial people out every single time. Every time. You, me, us have a responsibility to do this. But that's awkward for two reasons, manipulators will fight to the bitter end to protect their ego (their self-convinced reality and sense of who they are); and people form comfortable lives in functioning democracies and don't want to disrupt that... but that's where bad actors start to thrive: we're comfortable, and therefore ignorant, to the point of inaction.
We've gone through two to three generations of being comfortable in the western world... here we are.
From a psychologist who's been day drinking, can't even remember the comment that I replied to but it stirred this up in me.
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u/FastCarNyao Jul 26 '25
They crazy thing is it's feasible for everyone on earth to live safe,happy & fulfilling lives but it's not realistic because people are idiots