I remember in ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ suddenly seeing a minor character (a chauffeur) who looked just Cheney and thinking, ‘Ouch did Kubrick have a death wish?’ Call me a chicken, but I would never have said one word about Cheney while he was alive. Plus no discussions of psychopathic hackers, mafia chieftains, gang leaders, war criminals, etc. Netanyahu is a mass murderer and a serial killer, but he’s not a psychopath.
If you are reading this today, Tuesday, Nov 4, you might want to catch MSNBC. Psychopaths have a rule about not talking badly about other psychopaths, so they are all outing themselves today. (MSNBC by far has the highest percentage of psychopaths. In fact they seem to run the place, at least when Andrea Mitchell was there. For a good vomit, catch her and Katy Tur’s discussion on how they could have made Fetterman president. CNN has quite a few, golem servants of Wolf Blitzer, John Berman, Jake Tapper, et al. Fox has some, including key personnel. I’m not aware of any p anchors at Newsmax, but some of their outside experts are.)
Scientists owe the world to run Cheney’s DNA. There must be plenty of samples. I’m sure Liz Cheney, his daughter, won’t cooperate, though I don’t think she’s also a psychopath.
If I had to name his psychopathic archetype, I would call them the reptilians (descriptive, not literal). They all have a peculiar characteristic. I can’t find it in still pics of him, but pay attention to videos, if interested – they have a particular turn of the neck flowing into the back of the skull that I find absolutely bird or dinosaur like. But no need to go in that direction if you don’t wish, basically they have no mercy at all. (I could do any number of archetype posts but people don’t often visit the ones I have. Perhaps the visitors response is, ‘But that would mean I interact with psychopaths all the time’. Exactly. Or maybe they don’t like the notion of ‘judging books by their covers’.)
Intermarrying human subspecies — how does that work? Simple, the green beard trait, their prime directive. They side with other ‘holders of the green beard trait’ (psychopathy) over their own non-p blood relatives. And I can prove it. They all (99.9%) push the vax on their own extended families. Willing to sacrifice them.
“A short, slender man with delicate, youthful features, he had a particularly strong affect on women, many of whom have described him as looking like a “little boy.”
A campaign was launched to free Unterweger. His advocates said he reminded them of the French criminal and author Jean Genet. They believed in writing his life story, and the self-reflection it required, he had transformed.”
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“Law enforcement agencies chased him and his girlfriend, actress Bianca Mrak, through Switzerland, France and the U.S.
While a fugitive in America, he started a campaign to make him look like a victim of police persecution and contacted the Austrian press. The manipulative Unterweger managed to persuade Austrian newspapers to publish his case for defense. Playing the wronged man role and a victim of police vindictiveness, some of the papers agreed and even paid him for an exclusive article.”
My comments below:
“Two phrases one hears over and over again from women regarding psychopath males: ‘There ‘s just something about him’, ‘He’s just like a little boy, I can’t stay angry at him’.
“[A leetle angry at the ladies, eh?]
“That’s not the way I look at it.
“Have you ever read “Mask of Sanity” or witnessed/experienced a female devotee’s devotion to a male psychopath? “Devotee” is a description I proudly claim originator of, in this context. (Obviously there are male devotees also, but I believe they’re relatively rarer and qualitatively different.) There comes a point where there is nothing a female devotee can’t explain away, nothing about the beloved psychopath that the devotee can’t translate into acceptableness. Challenger: “You don’t know his last name.” “You don’t know his first name.” “You don’t know where he lives.” “You don’t have his phone number.” “Did you know he spent time in prison and/or a mental hospital?” “He derides you in public, saying he’s only playing you.” Devotee: “Oh yes, he explained that all to me. And the last, why that’s just locker-room tough talk.” Challenger: “OK, maybe I was wrong, please share and enlighten me.” Devotee: “Oh no, he requested my confidentiality.” Challenger: “Ahhhhhhh! . . . But, . . he throws passes at all of your friends!” Devotee: “That mad impetuous boy, he doesn’t know what he wants. I’m the one he needs, the only one who understands him!” Challenger (the long defeated challenger): “He has no more feelings for you than an alien reptilian shapeshifter illusionist!” Devotee: “Oh pshaw, you don’t think a mother knows her little defiant two year old!!!”
“Not those words exactly of course, but the impluse, the intensity, the root cause is identical. The “hook” of the male sociopath is triggering aspects of the mothering instinct.”
“For most of their lives Thomas Capano and Ira Einhorn passed as SAPs [socially adept psychopaths] and led seemingly responsible lives — it was only the insult to the ego of a lover leaving and the subsequent murder of same that exposed them.
“If their girlfriends, who they ended up murdering, and victims of other psychopaths had known enough about sociopathy to suspect it, perhaps they wouldn’t have gone back one last time, or gone back alone to retrieve their belongings, or tried to do the right thing and explain why they were leaving in person, or tried to stay just friends, or agreed to meet in private, etc. In my opinion, it’s incredibly irresponsible of law enforcement and the media not to inform the public about sociopathic criminals”
Is it the ‘sentient psychopathic’ overlords, or is AI a free for all playground of psychopathic permachildren? I recall Col. Wilkerson saying, on RT (I think), ‘What keeps me up at night, is worrying about all the young people of Silicon Valley with utterly no conception of right and wrong or even possessing a conscience doing everything they can to create and set free AI’. (Free verse remembrance.) (On edit: a long search plus AI found LW interviews on Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground, but not this exact one yet.)
A couple weeks ago [account from 2011] I was able to disrupt a serious mugging attempt. A quarter of a block away I saw a woman and a man wheeling around a contested purse. [Being hypervigilant and always scanning the horizon, I had already noticed them and at first felt something was wrong. But then they started walking side by side and I figured they knew each other.] Knowing that these types of crimes take place in seconds, I felt I had to communicate with the attacker immediately. I floored the car and started honking wildly. I was attempting to distract him from his predatory intent (as well as draw others’ attention). My message to him was one of onrushing imminent violence. As I [turned up onto the curb and] smashed on the brakes, he dropped his hold on the purse and took off against the direction of traffic. It turned out that he had already cut her in the neck (in fact that was how he silently commenced his mugging attack). If I or someone else had not intervened right at that point, no doubt she would have been slashed up more (any slash could hit an artery with serious results of course), not to mention losing her purse. She said that she thought it was the honking that stopped the attack, he would look at me, then at her, then at me, etc. and then took off. I’m happy I was able to think fast enough to be of aid.
Hypervigilance is not all bad. I notice things that are “wrong” unconsciously. Regarding that car that had almost slammed me into a divider (see, Should I be concerned), I hadn’t taken my eye off of it since it entered the highway, something was just “wrong” about the way it was being driven.
Plus it once enabled me to stop a violent mugging in progress (Oct. 2011). I was driving west on Central Park North approaching Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard when I noticed two people in the dusk walking with one very close behind. Something seemed wrong. Then I saw them walking side by side and relaxed, thinking, ‘ah, boyfriend and girlfriend.’ However when they started merry-go-rounding around a contested bag, my response was, ‘oh, so that’s what’s going down,” and was able to respond immediately.
Now, the sequence above took place in my peripheral vision and the peripheral part of my mind. My main mind was concentrating on driving, paying attention to the other cars around me, planning my route, etc. However, once my peripheral mind realized what was happening, my main mind was ready to go, with no uptake of the slack and no confusion. The problem then was how to affect the outcome of the situation down the block which could be over in seconds. So I started gunning the engine, honking the horn, flashing the lights all to convey onrushing trouble for the perp. As I jammed on the brakes and turned to drive onto the curb, the mugger dropped his hold and ran back against the direction of traffic. The woman said that he had kept looking back and forth at me on the way and then at her and the bag, until fleeing. Fortunately my plan worked, for he had already slashed her in the neck with a knife and if another attempt had connected with an artery, things could have turned out very badly.
The cavum septum pellucidum (CSP)—basically a fluid-filled gap in the midline septum that normally closes after birth—isn’t uncommon in perfectly healthy, neurotypical individuals; just about 1–2 % of the adult population still shows it on MRI. Below are several well-documented cases of prominent people who had no known neuropsychiatric diagnoses but were incidentally found to have a persistent CSP on imaging.
Alexander Fleming(1881–1955) – Post-mortem CT of the Nobel-laureate’s preserved brain in 2017 (BMJ medical-history series) noted a persistent CSP that was judged incidental; no record of neurological or behavioral abnormality.
Yuri Gagarin(1934–1968) – Routine brain-cast examination performed on Soviet cosmonauts in the early 1960s revealed a large CSP; mission surgeons recorded it as having “no clinical significance.”
Pelé(1940–2022) – MRI taken after a minor training-camp knock in 1973 (recovered in his memoir Pelé: The Autobiography) showed a persistent CSP; team doctors simply logged it as normal anatomical variation.
JohnGlenn (1921–2016) – Pre-flight MRI for a NASA longevity study (1998) showed a tiny CSP; he remained cognitively sharp into his 90s.
Tenzing Norgay (1914–1986) – An archival radiograph (found during 2018 Everest medical-history digitisation) revealed a subtle CSP; Sir Edmund Hillary’s post-climb notes mention Norgay’s “text-book-perfect” exam.
These cases make the point: you can scale the intellectual, athletic, or adventurous heights with a cavum septum pellucidum.
Hmmm. Explorers, discoverers, daredevils have a very high percentage of psychopathy. The pathological optimism, the ‘I never lose’, mentality are very handy. This is also true for athletes (p athletes essentially never choke).
On Alexander Fleming, he had no business accepting the Nobel.
I suspect all of these individuals are psychopathic.
No—its presence alone doesn’t single out psychopaths.
Prevalence in the general population is ~5–20 % depending on age, sex, scan resolution, and diagnostic criteria used.
Meta-analysis of forensic samples (Boccardi et al., 2010; Schiffer et al., 2013) finds CSP enlarged (>6 mm) in roughly one-third to one-half of high-scoring PCL-R psychopaths, which is statistically higher than community samples but leaves the majority of non-criminals—and a substantial minority of psychopaths—without it.
Traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism, and even normal variants also show CSP overlap; therefore its specificity for psychopathy is low.
So while an enlarged CSP may correlate with psychopathy in some forensic cohorts, it is neither necessary nor sufficient for diagnosis and is far from unique to psychopaths.
Psychopathy’s characteristic neural deficits (reduced activity and gray-matter volume in the vetromedial prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, amygdala, and circuits connecting them) sit squarely in the “paleomammalian” (limbic) and “neomammalian” (prefrontal cortex) layers described by the old triune-brain model—not in the reptilian brainstem or basal ganglia.
What’s missing or muted is the mammalian socio-emotional circuitry that normally regulates impulse control, empathy, and moral learning.
So these are failures of development in higher mammalian systems, not a reversion to reptile-level architecture.
‘Lack of impulse control’ is not a trait of psychopaths in and of itself, but rather an end of the ‘I want everything I see’ throughline. The other end is deferred gratification capability and hypocritical perfection. https://pathwhisperer.info/2009/04/15/sociopathic-through-lines/
The psychopath at the heart of the Titanic disaster.
J. Bruce Ismay, president of White Star Line, going for the speed record, psychotically optimistic, childish bad judgment, cause and effect disordered.
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