Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 1/16/16, Razer <rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> juan:
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 20:48:10 +0000
>> Razer <rayzer at 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)?