2012.02.28
Country-of-liars apparently provided material to the CBS-TV network.
I’m not much of a television watcher … never have been.
But for some reason, last night I turned on the TV and Miami CSI was just beginning. Though not intending to, I watched the entire episode. And I’m glad I did.
It was the ending that got me. As the “detective” delivered his lines, I froze. He told his associate how he resembled a psychopath, and with that, stated a list of five traits in the exact same order that I wrote mine here, and used the exact same words. I must have been meant to watch that show.
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February 28th, 2012 at 08:39
Awareness, awareness, awareness….and then, we must contact / lobby the legislators to change the laws for accountability, accountability, accountability.
Problem is, they leave us debilitated and isolated, (weakened), in addition to our not being able to stomach the conscienceless and war-like behavior they enact so easily, and so, they often win.
In this way, this world is tilted in the direction of the narcissistic socio/psychopaths….but this is changing. Have you read Thomas Sheridan’s book? (Puzzling People, the Labyrinth of the Psychopath + a new one coming out soon) He’s refreshingly optimistic.
March 11th, 2012 at 20:56
Larry, I was thinking about you last weekend, specifically your blog, I should say! I was watching a show on the Science Channel called either “Good or Bad” or “Are You Good or Evil.” Something along those lines. I only saw approximately the last 20-25 minutes but it was about genetics and psychopathy. In fact, one of the leading researchers in this field, who used brain scans and other tests to show psychopathy, turned out to have a similar brain scan to many of the psychos and murderers he was studying! He wondered why he turned out different. He said that he had a happy childhood and felt that kept him on a lawful path. However, he did admit that he once just “blew off” h is aunt’s funeral to go hang out somewhere and that even though he knew it was wrong, he just didn’t really care. His family (they interviewed only his wife and a son) said that this new diagnosis explained a lot to them. Namely, that he didn’t always seem “quite right” and they just knew something was “off.” His son admitted to being scared of him when growing up.
I thought you’d be interested in this program and I’m hoping to catch it in it’s entirety in the future. I’m sure it will be in the rotation again at some point. I’m sure you’d feel validated after seeing this.
March 11th, 2012 at 21:37
Thanks for the tip … I’ll look for it.
March 12th, 2012 at 12:33
I wouldn’t trust someone with that brain scan no matter their profession or public persona. Better to be too cautious imo.
March 13th, 2012 at 18:09
Barb,
I could agree with you more, but how would you ever see their brain scans and be able to decipher them. It’s extremely complex.
March 14th, 2012 at 20:39
My post was about the man in the documentary (one of the researchers.) I phrased it in a vague way. Sorry.
March 31st, 2012 at 23:16
@ Cathy K.: The neuroscientists you’re referring to is Dr. James Fallon from UC Irvine. He has a lecture on ted.com, and many YouTube and other interviews.
Dr. Sebastian Seung, MIT neuroscientist, has a new book out called Connectomes. Connectomes is the word coined to describe the new branches of brain neurons which can be and are formed with certain and specific efforts.
They’ve discovered the brain is way more plastic (changeable) way older than ever before, and conectomes are one of the building blocks of that plasticity.
That said, compounded by the fact that we are a culture that deeply enables narcissistic socio/psychopaths (somewhat out of ignorance), and aids and abets them by shifting blame to their victims instead of tracing it back and firmly focussing on the socio/psychopath as the initiator of the bad stuff that ripples forward, there’s almost no socio/psychopaths forming new connectomes in their empathy or “humanity” centers.
May that change one day.
April 9th, 2012 at 08:46
Hey Larry, i’m the same guy from before:)
In reply to Cathy K, i think the video she’s referring to is on youtube – BBC Horizon – What makes us good or evil? split into 4 parts. Also i actually ended up moving to a different country:D the life was quite peaceful for some time, got myself a job and been working here for around 4 months now. But yesterday i had quite a shock, i was targetted again, by a completely different person.
There is this new guy at work who started telling people that i look really suspicious to him. you see he’s a really good judge of character (self proclaimed) and he just knows i’m not a person to be trusted! Fancy that. The reason i know about this is that rumors spread pretty quickly where i work due to workers constantly talking and interacting, and it’s only been around 2 weeks since he started working here.
So now you’re thinking that the guy just probably doesn’t like me and honestly thinks i’m shady. Ahh but the catch is that the guy stole money from a coworker. I won’t go into the details but it was done pretty much in few minutes but since no one saw him actually doing anything behind the closed doors no one has any proof. So if you combine these two facts i’m pretty sure he’s a sociopath and i’m being targeted. Ohh one small detail, or rather a red flag was when i came into office just to check on him and his attention turned from working to me “did you forget something?” as if saying “i’m aware of your presence here because i would prefer to be left alone with other people’s belongings”.
Sure enough if something got stolen he would tell everyone how i was hanging around the office all suspicious and whatnot. Although i already have my opinion on this subject i would like to hear yours, Larry. Do you think i should switch jobs or am i just being paranoid and overreacting? And i’m leaving for work in around 20minutes so i guess i’ll have to return to this website later today or possibly tomorrow. Thanks in advance
April 20th, 2012 at 19:15
Danna and Yami, that is the documentary I was watching. Thanks for finding it. I think I will watch the other segments that I missed.