"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...
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, July 16, 2006
So what is a psychopath, really?