The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com,
An International Man lives and does business wherever he finds conditions most advantageous, regardless of arbitrary borders. He’s diversified globally, with passports from multiple countries, assets in several jurisdictions, and his residence in yet another. He doesn’t depend absolutely on any country and regards all of them as competitors for his capital and expertise.
Living as an international man has always been an interesting possibility. But few Americans opted for it, since the U.S. used to reward those who settled in and put down roots. In fact, it rewarded them better than any other country in the world, so there was no pressing reason to become an international man.
Things change, however, and being rooted like a plant - at least if you have a choice - is a suboptimal strategy if you wish to not only survive, but prosper. Throughout history, almost every place has at some point become dangerous for those who were stuck there. It may be America’s turn.
For those who can take up the life of an international man, it’s no longer just an interesting lifestyle decision. It has become, at a minimum, an asset saver, and it could be a lifesaver. That said, I understand the hesitation you may feel about taking action; pulling up one’s roots (or at least grafting some of them to a new location) can be almost as traumatic to a man as to a vegetable.
As any intelligent observer surveys the world’s economic and political landscape, he has to be disturbed - even dismayed and a bit frightened - by the gravity and number of problems that mark the horizon. We’re confronted by economic depression, looming financial chaos, serious currency inflation, onerous taxation, crippling regulation, a developing police state, and, worst of all, the prospect of a major war. It seems almost unbelievable that all these things could affect the U.S., which historically has been the land of the free.
How did we get here? An argument can be made that things went bad because of miscalculation, accident, inattention, and the like. Those elements have had a role, but it is minor. Potential catastrophe across the board can’t be the result of happenstance. When things go wrong on a grand scale, it’s not just bad luck or inadvertence. It’s because of serious character flaws in one or many - or even all - of the players.
So is there a root cause of all the problems I’ve cited? If we can find it, it may tell us how we personally can best respond to the problems.
In this article, I’m going to argue that the U.S. government, in particular, has been overrun by the wrong kind of person. It’s a trend that’s been in motion for many years but has now reached a point of no return. In other words, a type of moral rot has become so prevalent that it’s institutional in nature. There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the U.S. is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order. Until then, the trend will accelerate.
The reason is that a certain class of people - sociopaths - are now fully in control of major American institutions. Their beliefs and attitudes are insinuated throughout the economic, political, intellectual, and psychological/spiritual fabric of the U.S.
What does this mean to you, as an individual? It depends on your character. Are you the kind of person who supports “my country, right or wrong,” as did most Germans in the 1930s and 1940s? Or the kind who dodges the duty to be a helpmate to murderers? The type of passenger who goes down with the ship? Or the type who puts on his vest and looks for a lifeboat? The type of individual who supports the merchants who offer the fairest deal? Or the type who is gulled by splashy TV commercials?
What the ascendancy of sociopaths means isn’t an academic question. Throughout history, the question has been a matter of life and death. That’s one reason America grew; every American (or any ex-colonial) has forebears who confronted the issue and decided to uproot themselves to go somewhere with better prospects. The losers were those who delayed thinking about the question until the last minute.
I have often described myself, and those I prefer to associate with, as gamma rats. You may recall the ethologist’s characterization of the social interaction of rats as being between a few alpha rats and many beta rats, the alpha rats being dominant and the beta rats submissive. In addition, a small percentage are gamma rats that stake out prime territory and mates, like the alphas, but are not interested in dominating the betas. The people most inclined to leave for the wide world outside and seek fortune elsewhere are typically gamma personalities.
You may be thinking that what happened in places like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, and scores of other countries in recent history could not, for some reason, happen in the U.S.. Actually, there’s no reason it won’t at this point. All the institutions that made America exceptional - including a belief in capitalism, individualism, self-reliance, and the restraints of the Constitution - are now only historical artifacts.
On the other hand, the distribution of sociopaths is completely uniform across both space and time. Per capita, there were no more evil people in Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Mao’s China, Amin’s Uganda, Ceausescu’s Romania, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia than there are today in the U.S. All you need is favorable conditions for them to bloom, much as mushrooms do after a rainstorm.
Conditions for them in the U.S. are becoming quite favorable. Have you ever wondered where the 50,000 people employed by the TSA to inspect and degrade you came from? Most of them are middle-aged. Did they have jobs before they started doing something that any normal person would consider demeaning? Most did, but they were attracted to - not repelled by - a job where they wear a costume and abuse their fellow citizens all day.
Few of them can imagine that they’re shepherding in a police state as they play their roles in security theater. (A reinforced door on the pilots’ cabin is probably all that’s actually needed, although the most effective solution would be to hold each airline responsible for its own security and for the harm done if it fails to protect passengers and third parties.) But the 50,000 newly employed are exactly the same type of people who joined the Gestapo - eager to help in the project of controlling everyone. Nobody was drafted into the Gestapo.
What’s going on here is an instance of Pareto’s Law. That’s the 80-20 rule that tells us, for example, that 80% of your sales come from 20% of your salesmen or that 20% of the population are responsible for 80% of the crime.
As I see it, 80% of people are basically decent; their basic instincts are to live by the Boy Scout virtues. 20% of people, however, are what you might call potential trouble sources, inclined toward doing the wrong thing when the opportunity presents itself. They might now be shoe clerks, mailmen, or waitresses - they seem perfectly benign in normal times. They play baseball on weekends and pet the family dog. However, given the chance, they will sign up for the Gestapo, the Stasi, the KGB, the TSA, Homeland Security, or whatever. Many seem well intentioned, but are likely to favor force as the solution to any problem.
But it doesn’t end there, because 20% of that 20% are really bad actors. They are drawn to government and other positions where they can work their will on other people and, because they’re enthusiastic about government, they rise to leadership positions. They remake the culture of the organizations they run in their own image. Gradually, non-sociopaths can no longer stand being there. They leave. Soon the whole barrel is full of bad apples. That’s what’s happening today in the U.S.
It’s a pity that Bush, when he was in office, made such a big deal of evil. He discredited the concept. He made Boobus americanus think it only existed in a distant axis, in places like North Korea, Iraq and Iran, which were and still are irrelevant backwaters and arbitrarily chosen enemies. Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool. All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11.
Now, I believe, it’s out of control. The U.S. is already in a truly major depression and on the edge of financial chaos and a currency meltdown. The sociopaths in government will react by redoubling the pace toward a police state domestically and starting a major war abroad. To me, this is completely predictable. It’s what sociopaths do.
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Or How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West => http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-2mp
Let's not be racist here, I don't care who conquers the West or the world - honesty, not fleecing the people, no more wars, stop the bombs, stop the Pentagon budget - that would matter to me.
This just in - January 15, 2016
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham announced he is backing Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, praising the former Florida governor's approach to national security. "I have concluded without any hesitation, any doubt, that Jeb Bush is worthy to be commander-in-chief on day one," Graham said Friday.
And Ms. Lindsey Graham made the endorsement in a lovely pink chiffon party dress from the balcony of his/her Globalist payed for D.C. penthouse.
nyc controlling whatever elections they want to -- using satans scrip
proof - see goldman funding cruz in TEXAS senate race. whatever the makeup of the pols - it is exactly how nyc wants it
if one can't vote in an election, one should not be able to influence it with money
ron paul was right
end the fed
Who gives a shit? Stop claiming allegiance to a private corporation.
The UNITED STATES derrives its powers from the consent of the governed.
Withdraw consent.
Stop participating.
That's ideal in thought but not in manifestable reality. Everywhere in the world, you have people who are "government give me this" and "government save me that." It's a function of dependence, and people like to be dependent because it is comfortable. Any time you offer something marginally better than nothing for free, it's gonna get taken, in hordes. People love free shit - always have, since time immorial.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham announced he is backing Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination
Great....now Jeb is polling at 1.2 percent. Of course that figure includes the undecided.
speaking of bushes, this int'l guy lost me at "Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool. All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11."
first bush wasn't just a fool and a tool; he made cheney his v.p./surrogate president. he was not unaware of the plans to do 9-11 (check out his reaction to being told of it in the schoolhouse).
the u.s. was turned into a national security state in peacetime (it had been during the civil war and ww 1 and 2) following ww 2. see ike's warning and jfk's assassination.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsoY3AIRUGA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW6mJOqRDI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhROd7Jt3-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgM6hjNedE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj_AL4OlmHc&feature=iv&src_vid=rnbMjAN7B...
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/sections/index.php?op=viewarticl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVHstSrC1CQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORu-68SHpE.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/everything-rich-man-trick/
Living as an International man is stupid.
Crude Oil is not infinite and 'they' are not going to announce that there is no more left! At which point you assets will zero value in every jurisdiction.
Find yourself a rural patch of land and learn how to make that land sustain your life. Learn how to protect it.
Global Geopolitical Chessboard: Psychopathic Players and Cynical Moves Guarantee a Future of Perpetual War
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=22223
STRATFOR Chief Reveals Zio-Anglo-American Plot For World Domination"There is not going to be, therefore, any serious change in the direction in which the U.S. is headed until a genuine crisis topples the existing order."
Hmm ... Doug Casey is eager for the sociopaths of the old world order to be replaced by a less sociopathic New Order? Did it occur to him that this is exactly what the TPTB want him to think? They have given us sociopaths so that they can "save" us from them. They will look good, even like saviors, in comparison - at least at first.
"Find yourself a rural patch of land and learn how to make that land sustain your life. Learn how to protect it."
If anyone out there decides that this is a path they'd like to travel, I suggest you get to it, as it is not an easy thing and it takes time. Homesteading requires that one become a real Jack-of-all-trades with an advanced degree in crisis management. Put another way - you will always be blessed with work and never be bored.
Of course the most important thing is choosing the right piece of land.
DNA test should be run on the Bush family.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=43b_1381127815
"...as the World Trade Center burned on Sept. 11, 2001, the news interrupted a Carlyle business conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here attended by a brother of Osama bin Laden. Former president Bush, a fellow investor, had been with him at the conference the previous day."
http://www.wanttoknow.info/030316post
Speaking of sociopaths---Bush.
Also---Clinton.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/01/15/media-reports-a-second-wa...
Dependency is a key objective of those that wish to expand control over other peoples lives. It is an easy trap that many fall for...what most cannot see is that at this point overt and covert dependencies have expanded into all aspects of society. We have all become dependent either by choice or force. Yes people love free shit...but, the point of creating dependencies is to make the people believe or fear that they cannot live without them...thus, becoming willing neo-serfs to an ever expanding government that must continually increase its control over the lives of its subjects until the people are treated and viewed as little more than livestock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0h-EawmXu8
Shaggy HELP!
Ideas can become reality. We who understand that slavery is immoral must help those who do not, so that some day, abolition might become a reality.
"People love free shit - always have, since time immorial."
Very true, but there are a few, very few, that believe that free shit makes you a weak, spoiled little shit; unprepared for any adversity, of which life is full. There are some that look at free shit with extreme trepidation, wondering "But what's the catch, there is always a catch.". There are a few that have learned this lesson from experience or seeing someone else experience it. There are some, some who know that all we need is already provided, we need only go utilize it; leading to the ultimate feeling of independence and accomplishment.
Or maybe I've just had a little too much 'fire water' *shrug*.
The gammas have to organize the betas against the alphas to take control and......oh wait...
Jeb said at the recent debate "We must restore democracy in Syria" and agreed that we should lead a Sunni invasion of Syria with 20,000 American troops. Also, that Assad must go because Saudi Arabia demands it. I had expected this to be headline news in the psychopath press. Not to be.
jeb is done, they all are in my book, toasted fucks... it takes a real psychopath to deal with a lowly sociopath. and that leader is coming imfo...
what does jeb's wife always say before she enters a room? "housekeeping"
Why won't Lindsey just go away? Why? Why?
sociopaths won't just go away, they have to driven away like rabid dogs
I'll just leave this here...
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/688057786899513344
PC Bullshit has ended. You are 100% owned by the Zioniest that run the US and everyone in it.
@uhland62I am with you on this, buddy
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I already conquered the West, and the World, and it is heading towards World War Three at lightning speed to annihilate the European Union, and the United States of America. This will completely destroy the Military Industrial Complex, and their overarching budget that they cannot accurately track due to criminality, and fraud, that is operating on an industrial basis as a parasite on all of society throughout the entire World. Lastly, David Addington was Chief Whore House Council under George 'the TORTURER' Bush.
Note: David Addington is a S O C I O P A T H not unlike George W. Bush.
I don't know who said it...I think it was in relation to Al Capone. But if a sociopath is born poor and attends public school or no school, they become a mobster. If a sociopath is born and raised in Manhattan and attends boarding school, the become a financier.
Tendentious at best. The reign of the Tzars and their White-Russian forces, which Lenin and the early Bolshevik troops went up against, was among the most brutal in Russia's history. Yet, it is a picture of Lenin that is being associated with "sociopaths in government"?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that 10s of millions of Russian murder victims (non-communists) disagree. Well they would disagree. But. They were murdered by communists under Lenin and his theological kinsmen. Yes, believing you know what is best for everyone is a god complex turned religion, atheist or not.
It astounds me that few take the time to see who the sociopathic financiers were that financed Lenin; especially his gold train. Those are your REAL enemies. Their agents are just the ones who get their hands dirty.
the sociopaths are employed by the psychopaths; all you need to do is look at the banker politico connections to see that-and watch what happens to bankers that stray off the reservation
http://clashdaily.com/2015/06/the-dead-bankers-society-mysterious-deaths...
Tens of millions murdered by Lenin, tens (or hundreds?) of millions murdered by Stalin himself and tens of millions died in WWII. How many Russians do you think remained by 1953?
At least one breeding pair.
Eirik Magnus Larssen -- should you not just stick to interior decorating?
You are such an effeminate liberal empty head. Perhaps if you would continue your testosterone patches. The patches are more effective if you stick them to your balls but in you case since those are nonexistent you can put it on your butt cheek.
Eirik is one of the most uninformed and poorly read posters on this board. He only spouts pre approved NWO thoughts.
He thinks the Romanovs were brutal? That's right out of a Soviet history book. He didn't bother to mention that Stalin was also somewhat brutal. He was never taught the truth, and probably doesn't want to know it anyway. Might interfere with his worldview and socialist beliefs.
You can generally tell what people fear most by how they try to frighten you. American males, and especially those of the conservative bent, seem to experience deep-seated feelings of insecurity about their "manhood". The overly defensive posturing before feminists, homosexuals and black males is very telling in this regard.
Scandinavian males, who are by and large progressive in their political orientation, do not feel diminished or threatened by any of these three social groups. We co-exist with them. And it works.
The rise of the Sweden Democrats indicates otherwise.
Like with the Front National of Marine Le Pen, the Sweden Democrats are but a vocal minority of wingnuts who regularly make for sensational headlines in the press, but they will not assume actual power.
They may capitalize briefly on the present turmoil surrounding refugees, as populist parties are want to do. But before long, one of them will let out a statement in an unguarded moment which exposes them precisely for what they are, and they will end as they begun: Marginalized and ridiculed.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much...
Nice ad hominem attack, as usual. Funny coming from someone obviously rejected by his own group of females, and who subsequently harbors an intense hatred of his own kind; resulting in a pathological personality willing and eager to commit genocide to exact revenge on what he could never aspire to become. Much like his hero Stalin. He is actually proud to be a bolshevik, proud of the bloodsoaked history of 'his' pet 'progressives' and proud to be outright used by smarter and more manipulative political minds than his own. He probably honestly believes that the Russians were dropping 'Molotov's bread baskets' on Finland in '41.
"We co-exist with them" -until they are done with their useful idiots -but he never bothers reading the histories of what happens then.
'And it works' -which is why there is a crisis of genocide, rape (which the UN defines as a major part of genocide) ethnic cleansing, and sexual assault in Ewik's country.
"You can generally tell what people fear most by how they try to frighten you." That phenomenon is called 'projection' and you may want to look in a mirror sometime.
The Lenin Revolution brought in an era of terror exceeding that of Czar Ivan the Terrible and lasted over five times as long. Physcopath is a better description of Lenin than sociopath.
The millions that died under Lenin and Stalin accurately demonstrates the POWER of resistance and non participation. If those folks had sheepishly gone along with the program their offspring would likely be alive today. Inevitably people always wait to resist until it is far too late. They perceive they have too much to lose and will wait until they nothing left but desperation. This is the truth that Marx understood, as do most tyrants and progressives, that our materialistic nature is our undoing, our weakness. The easy choice is almost always the wrong one. We did not get here JUST because of sociopaths. It took compliant people intent on protecting their stash, buying the cheap import instead of supporting their neighbor, hiring the Mexican rather than the kid next door, voting for someone who offers you what can only be taken by force of government from others. Principles are what define a people and I believe our definition is on a grand display today.
Actually, throughout those decades of terror most of those murder victims and their entire families were rounded up and killed for being members of a targeted class -- military officers, former officials, clergy, teachers, farmers, land or property owners, etc., it went on and on.
Solzhenitzen said that if they turned on their terrorists as they burst into their homes things might have been different. They were going to die anyway, so they should have taken a few of the baddies with them. But normal people are not set up to live with terror on a daily basis. That's better suited to all the abnormal, violent people and well-heeled official psychopaths who are tormenting this Earth and everyone on it.
But the Russians were law abiding citizens since long before the scheming Federal Reserve funded the Bolsheviks who destroyed the whole Russian Empire and its inhabitants. When the new regime took over the Russians tried to adjust. All the liberals at this end taught that the Bolsheviks were just fab for getting rid of those Romanov meanies. Not a word in any liberal classroom for all the millions who met early and violent deaths thanks to Western psychopaths.
Nor was there much mention of the fact that Stalin was a third grade dropout, a street thug, firebug, thief and of course that made him a Western pet. A real darling. Did anyone really think that the Western psychos would entrust their huge prize to just anyone? Of course not. Stalin was chosen in NY, DC, London, Frankfurt, etc., conference rooms. No way the NWO would leave something that big to mere chance.
Does anyone recall how FDR fondly referred to Stalin as "Uncle Joe?' But then FDR was also a commie so they were two of a kind. FDR was the heir of a massive opium fortune and a descendant of one of the founders of that accursed white trash club, Skull & Bones. FDR was a real NWO concubine. He seized gold from Americans and imprisoned those who would not comply.
RIP to all those who suffered and died thanks to our misappropriated money.
Are you serious Eirik? The Jewish Bolsheviks killed 66 million Christians. >> https://goo.gl/nKJndT
Valerie Jarrett is that you as a baby with your father in that pic?
Eirik Magnus Larssen
this is just not true.
read this book, to understand what actually had happened.
http://thesaker.is/the-essential-saker-book-is-now-out-in-hardcover-and-...
Eirik my scandinavian brother- you are a disgrace to the nordic race
Always sucking up to mass murderers aren't you.