"Louis Proyect" <[email protected]> wrote: > The authors concluded that “participants drawn from the non-clinical > population [i.e., business managers] had scores that merged > indiscernibly with clinical distributions.” There were no clear-cut > differences between “psychopaths” and “normals.” The most likely > explanation of psychopathy is that, like any other personality > dimension, it has a bell-shaped curve: a few people have almost none of > the characteristics, most people have some characteristics of > psychopathy, and a few people have a lot. The most visible outlets for > people high on psychopathy scales are petty con artists and corporate > conniving. Operating in different worlds, their psychopathy expresses > itself in different ways.
> full: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19776-inside-the-psyche-of-the-1 Trying to psychoanalyze economic society isn't going to work because the motives of capital are rational, although sometimes short-sighted. The author does need to make the distinction between psychopaths and sociopaths. Psychopaths want immediate gratification and sociopaths are willing to wait. -- Ron
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