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Tag Archives: sociopaths
Our Financial System Is Optimized for Sociopaths and Exploitation
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We live in a peculiar juncture of history in which truth has been banished as a threat to the maximization of private gain, i.e. the hyper-pursuit of self-interest. Evidence that supports a causal chain has been … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, Corporate Crime, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Exploitation, financial crisis, Financial System, Labor, Oligarchy, psychopaths, self interest, sociopaths
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37 Tips For Navigating A Society That Is Full Of Propaganda And Manipulation
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: Axis of Logic For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, media, Media Literacy, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, corporate media, culture, empire, imperialism, manipulation, media, Media Literacy, mental narrative, Mindfulness, Neocons, Philosophy, propaganda, psychology, Psyops, society, Sociology, sociopaths, Status Quo, Truth, war
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Snakes In Suits: Are Psychopaths Running The World?
By Alanna Ketler Source: Collective Evolution Often when we think of the word psychopath, we think of deranged serial killers that are hopefully locked up in prison for life. While there are many psychopaths who kill for reasons that are … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, elites, Oligarchy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Corporate Crime, corporate psychopaths, Corporations, culture, Economics, elites, Government Crime, government psychopaths, Health, Oligarchy, Politicians, psychology, psychopaths, society, Sociology, sociopaths
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Now That We’ve Incentivized Sociopaths–Guess What Happens Next
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds As long as central banks create and distribute trillions in conscience-free credit to conscience-free financiers and corporations, the incentives for sociopathy only increase. “Sociopath” is a word we now encounter regularly in … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Oligarchy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged corporatocracy, culture, Economic Crash, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, IPOs, Netflix, Oliogarchy, Plutocracy, psychology, psychopaths, Sherlock Holmes, society, Sociology, sociopaths, Steve Jobs, WeWork
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The Pathocracy of the Deep State: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Militarization, Oligarchy, police state, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Whistleblowers
Tagged activism, Alex Haslam, Corporate State, Democracy, Dystopia, fascism, Government, Oligarchy, pathocracy, police state, Politicans, Power, psychopaths, Psychopathy, sociopaths, Totalitarianism, tyranny, whistleblowers, Zack Beauchamp
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Forgiveness Is Overrated
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.com Journalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled “America’s new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone”, which begins with the observation that “Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, patriotism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, State Crime
Tagged Accountability, Aristocracy, Authority, Catholic Church, culture, David Sirota, Domestic Abuse, elites, evil, Forgiveness, Organized Religion, Philosophy, Pope Francis, Power, Ruling Class, Shaun King, social control, society, sociopaths, spirituality
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Mother Jones Writer Shows What Happens When You Apologize To A Manipulator
By Caitlin Johnstone Source: CaitlinJohnstone.org Have you ever noticed how rare sincere apologies are in politics? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Normal people apologize to each other every day, for accidentally interrupting someone or standing in their … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Conspiracy, culture, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, war
Tagged CIA, conspiracy, Francesca Fiorentini, Jimmy Dore, Manipulators, Mother Jones, Narcissists, Propagandists, psychopath, regime change, Shane Bauer, sociopaths, Syria, The Young Turks, Twitter, war profiteers, War Shills
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The Richest Sociopath in the World
By John Rachel Source: Dissident Voice Obviously the above pie chart is a put-on. It is well-documented that working conditions for most employees of Amazon are abysmal, dehumanizing, bordering on abuse we normally associate with slavery. Moreover, the median employee’s salary under Jeff Bezos’ imperial … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Amazon, Business, capitalism, Corporate Crime, economic inequality, Economics, elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Labor, sociopaths, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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