I have a practical outlook regarding the behavior of certain public figures. But first I want to quote from Joseph Sansone, M.S., PhD, a psychiatrist, who offered a statement submitted to a Dutch Court in the case highlighted in this link. It is a case filed in the Netherlands, and Bill Gates and many others are named defendants. They are accused of using the covid vaccines as a means of pushing hidden bioweapons. I’ve no doubt they are guilty. The problem is that we don’t have justice, so no court will find them so.
I have my own outlook on lies and lying liars in the public sphere. Joseph Sansone, M.H., PhD, has filed what I think in our country would be called an amicus brief to the Netherland proceedings. He is not part of the lawsuit. He says that the defendants in this case are “psychopathic authoritarians”. That’s a name dreamed up by the psychiatric professions, probably listed in the DSM-5. I imagine members of his profession voted on it, with a majority of psychiatrists deciding by a show of hands what is a disease, what is not. By this means we also have ADHD, bipolar disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, intermediate explosive disorder (which I would have guessed relates to diarrhea), and a host of others. All made up. But I want to quote Sansone on this:
Psychopathic Authoritarianism is the systemic elevation of power, control, and domination above truth, empathy, liberty, moral integrity, bodily autonomy, and human dignity. It is the collective manifestation of traits identified as the Dark Tetrad, sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. On a systemic level, these traits operate together with fear and coercive control to produce obedience, conformity, and subjugation of persons to institutional authority and may include a callous disregard for human life.
I don’t have a problem with any of that, as it is in essence a nice rant. However, I recall an German woman living in New York City, Hannah Arendt, who was sent as a journalist to witness the Adolf Eichmann trials in Israel in 1961. Eichmann was allegedly an architect of the Holocaust. Arendt, apparently taken aback, , noted that the defendant was hardly a monster, but more like a mundane bureaucrat. She coined the phrase “the banality of evil”.**
There are a host of accused persons in the Netherland trial, and I doubt any of them will come off as being any less mundane. They are probably involved in monstrous activities, if my suspicions about the Covid vaccines are true, but I suspect on the stand they will all assert innocence and involvement in a humanitarian cause, done to save lives. That will carry the day. No judge who wishes to remain a judge would allow a trial like this to come to any other conclusion than innocent. The world does not work that way. It does not allow justice. All of the statues of heroic characters and scales of justice outside courtrooms are no more than virtue signals.
Michael Mann, the famous Hockey Stick inventor, appears to me to be psychopathic in his outlook, considering the way he treats those who disagree with him. I see him as classic “suck up piss down.” But I doubt very much that he was born with any particular psychiatric disorder. In his younger years he was intelligent and ambitious in search of his PhD. He was apparently diverted by money, fame and power, and this brought out his less admirable character traits. But he is not evil personified, just a man seemingly lacking character. He had a major role in perversion of science in pursuit of goals having nothing scientific about them. He helped destroy not just careers, but lives of people who got in his way. He cherry picked his way to satisfying his hidden masters, his “closeted friends”, as he called them.
I guess then that we could say that Michael Mann suffers from Psychopathic Authoritarianism. He’s nasty, and not harmless. If he is evil, it could only have been due to a bad batch of chianti, or a bite by a rabid Marxist. But I don’t regard the man as evil, just weak, lacking principles, and opportunistic. If not him others would gladly perform his part. He masterminded nothing, merely followed orders.
Have there really been psychopathic monsters in real life? There are indeed sociopaths/psychopaths. They are drawn to public life. They do harm to innocent bystanders. They leave a scar. But in general, they are good at imitation of regular people and so could probably easily fool Sansone or most others in his profession. I regard the whole of the psychiatric outlook as misguided and removed from the practicalities of life and of people who are forced by their ambition and circumstances to tell lies. Fellow travelers and masked sociopaths are all about in politics, journalism, history, academia, and, of course, professional sports.
Picture yourself in the position of a doctor who is prescribing COVID vaccines to her patients. She is unaware of the true nature of the vaccine (as am I). She has no knowledge of virology and isolation of viruses. She is trained strictly in symptomology. She has no desire to harm anyone. She wants to help people. She is just doing her job, the one she trained for her entire life. She might have supervised the administration of the vaccine to thousands of people, and they may suffer unnecessarily or die premature deaths as a result, but she is blissfully unaware of any crime.
So too will Gates and his cohorts be found innocent. They know nothing evil, and are banality on parade.
I know that behind climate change and Covid are monsters, people whose objective is to rid the planet of what Henry Kissinger called “useless eaters.” They are, to me, nameless and faceless characters of indescribable power. In a better world we could sue them force them to appear in court somewhere and answer for their crimes, and then hang them high. But that will never happen. Have you not noticed that history is made by the powerful, and recorded and rewritten by scribes (journalists and historians) who walk backward cleaning up the mess and lying about everything that happened.
Hardly anything we know is true. Find me a court somewhere who can fix that.
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**There are interpretations of Arendt’s behavior that are best left unsaid.
I agree with your gloomy prognosis. The real architects are safely hiding, very rarely if ever seen in public. If you attempt to find them, you’re directed on many tangents, often unable to extract yourself before it’s too late. I suspect that their lackeys, for the most part, are as clueless as we are. Any names appearing in “news” sources are deflections. The breadth, width and depth of the deception is unknowable. But the pursuit is educational and sometimes rewarding.
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I suspect the henchmen of our true masters know a lot more than any of us. I suspect their each level of underlings knows a little less than the one above (in general).
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Not disagreeing, but just as a point of interest, there are many clips of Gates out there where he comes off as somewhat disturbing and possibly “monstrous”.. weird tics, inappropriate laughter, creepy sweaters. Put him on the stand, and Hannah Arendt might have to revise her views – “Indeed, Gates stood revealed as evil incarnate – he is the monster we always assumed he was. Cackling like a madman as the list of his crimes were read aloud, the only conclusion possible was that he was guilty as hell. I take back what I said about the ‘banality of evil’…”
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Or is Mr Gates just playing a role for the cameras, just like the rest of us do so often. Look at even children on the camera, they instantly start acting for their audience.
I don’t think his acting is much better than the average teenage girl.
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Indeed.. I was trying to be a little humorous. But even if he’s largely or entirely an actor, and not even in charge of his household help, he may have been cast for his slightly “off” affect and quirkiness. I heard somewhere that he is said to be autistic, or “on the spectrum”… Idk, maybe they screwed up and vaccinated him by mistake. “Oh well, I guess Billy can play one of our creepy front men on TV..” I probably am not one to talk though, I’m not exactly a normalopath, glad-handing, TV-presenter type who could go on talk shows and charm the nation with my easy wit and bon homie..
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I’ve been aware of Gates for many years, and note that Chomsky, whom I followed once with rigor, said that in the mid-1990s Gates, then titular head of Microsoft, refused to attend meetings about the Internet, as he saw no purpose, no future there.
Chomsky also noted that the world of expensive high-stakes research seldom hits pay dirt, and for that reason, most large companies shy away from high-risk projects like the Internet. For that reason, we have DARPA, where unlimited access to funds allows unlimited research and many failures. Some time ago DARPA announced funding for a project to see if it could devise a way to reassemble shredded paper. Is it feasible?
Chomsky, then a fertile source for dissent, went on to say that when DARPA comes across something of value, like PCs or iPhones or Facebook or the like, it turns it over the private sector for further development. Someone, some “genius” is appointed guru, to oversee further development. Thus did we have Gates and Jobs and Zuckerberg, and identical products, Apples and PCs and mass surveillance that very much resembles Orwell’s 1984, using the same technology.
The we can wonder about Gates, if this college dropout is really a genius and prodigy, or just another peerage selectee. His MSDOS was not his, really. His mother, having connections, got it for him from IBM. He is said to have amassed huge amounts of wealth, and used it to fund every stink-laden project imaginable, including supplying AZT to Africa to. “fight” AIDS – read, to enhance AIDS-blamed deaths. “His” money is all about. But I doubt it comes from him, but rather from the government, which uses him as a channel to avoid public debate about its projects. As I see it.
So then, is he some kind of Prince Charles elitist with no underlying intelligence? Is he quirky and weird? Probably. His real objective is population control. Only lack of discipline by his managers would have allowed him to publicly state his true objectives at a Ted Talk, which is to achieve population control via vaccines and other methods, a huge gaffe that had to be smoothed over. Just ask AI about it to see how smoothed over his stupidity has become in the ensuing years.
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I asked AI, why Sansone, employed the adjective “psychopathic?
AI replied: It Specifies the “Dark Tetrad” Framework
Joseph Sansone uses the modifier “psychopathic” specifically to merge a political concept (authoritarianism) with a distinct clinical profile: the Dark Tetrad (sadism, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy). By calling it psychopathic authoritarianism, he is narrowing the scope to a highly specific, pathological type of rule. He is identifying a system engineered not just to enforce order, but to actively satisfy the malicious, empathy-deficient, and power-dominant impulses of its architects.
Authoritarianism is primarily a political and sociological term describing a system of governance that rejects political plurality, uses centralized power, and reduces the rule of law.
Psychopathy is a psychological and psychiatric construct characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy, lack of remorse, and egotistical traits.
The two don’t necessarily go together, but it’s often the case that they do. Some psychopaths and sociopaths are drawn like moths to a flame to positions where they can exercise their authoritarian tendencies. But many other people support or administer authoritarian systems because they believe it’s right and proper or a necessary thing to do. On the other hand empaths and libertarians, which covers quite a lot of us, tend to be reluctant to get involved with bossing our fellow humans around, even when we are convinced it’s for their own good.
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“persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy, lack of remorse, and egotistical traits.”
Is it just me, or does that pretty much describe every one of us when we were infants? And yet we were entirely innocent in our narcissism, etc. To the point of being adorable and charming. Then as we got a bit older, and it became a bit less charming, we learned to repress and mask those infantile id-driven traits. Except Trump – he kept them richly alive and fecund. People are split, though, on exactly how charming and innocent this is, versus psychopathic-
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I always find it funny when I hear 5 percent of the population are psychopaths or sociopaths.
Surely only the most stupid people admitted to it. I suggest you would probably need to be in the bottom 5 percent in intelligence to get discovered as one…..oops make that 10 percent.
Sometimes these guys will get a trial and convicted. I think the Nazis were an example. It’s easy enough to stage a trial or make up some files.
On doctors etc not knowing what they are doing. I find that very I interesting. It’s a long discussion but people are very good at not looking where they don’t want to. And I’m sometimes, not often, but sometimes a little jealous. In Australia older people see doctors as gods, they worship them and believe they have nothing but the best intentions. Yes they make the occasional mistake but….
But in reality it’s the fact that the patients the parents in particular don’t want to know about what.they have done to their children. The only way to justify following a doctor’s advice without question or research is to put them on that high pedastool.
Finally perhaps the real difference between a socio or psychopath and a ‘norm’ is not the difference in the ability to do harm to others but the difference in the ability to acknowledge the harming of others. Or the inability to be ignorant of the harm we do.
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I’m reading the book “The true believer” by Eric Hoffer. Do you know it, Mark? It explains a lot, why scientists as well as people in general act as they do.
By the way: Churchill and the British caused WWII, not Hitler. Exactly the same happens today where they accuse Putin. All the world is a stage, I don’t believe anything anymore.
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