On 1/16/16, Razer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
juan:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:48:10 +0000 Razer <rayzer@riseup.net> wrote:
~Doug Casey, The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance
Are you quoting casey at face value or as an example of hollow libertarian rhetoric? I think the latter may be closer to the truth.
(though the bit about the US government being corrupt to the point of no return is correct)
Casey is supposed to be some kind of anarchist, yet the idea that a government(american or other) has been taken over by 'bad' people instead of being originally created by bad people, and being ineherently bad, is hardly in line with anarchist political analysis.
http://kickass-cookies.co.uk/the-ascendance-of-sociopaths-in-u-s-governance/
I'd like to think his point is the sociological balance is past the tipping point, 'crossed the rubicon' so to speak, where it's no longer possible to repair the society to some globally normal state, or get the sociopaths out of power, if one thinks a capitalist society can be free of psychopaths and sociopaths in the first place.
How could that even be possible? Pre-crime? Statistically some small percentage of new borns are born to be sociopaths right (from memory 1 to 2%)? Perhaps, how could it be possible to educate ourselves/ act, such that those wielding power in whatever social system is in place, are no more sociopathic than the 'average society member'? Or is there no hope since sociopaths will always be drawn to any position of power regardless, and the rest of us will tend to leave said positions to them and suffer the (repetitive historical) consequences (the "the only people on juries are those dum enough to not get off of them" syndrome)?