Sunday, July 16, 2006

So what is a psychopath, really?
"But Newman has a different idea entirely. He believes that psychopathy is essentially a type of learning disability or "informational processing deficit" that makes individuals oblivious to the implications of their actions when focused on tasks that promise instant reward. Being focused on a short-term goal, Newman suggests, makes psychopathic individuals incapable of detecting surrounding cues such as another person's discomfort or fear."
Certainly Hitler fits that description. People keep struggling with the fact that he seemed largely functional. Unfortunately, the "modern Aztecs" are hugely more blatant than that. And the NYeT can't see it. Largely because of their psychopathic obsession with W of course...