dmitridbThu, Apr 3, 2008 Well, I think that simply labelling certain people as psychopaths in order to find a solution to the problem is a completely broken way to go at it, as you mentioned - That's a psychopathic method of doing things, really, and if it becomes an accepted method of trying to stop psychopaths then of course some more charismatic psychopath will come along and do the exact same thing to the exact people who don't deserve the label.
But this touches upon what probably would be a more effective way of trying to solve the problem. Their methods are patterns of behaviour that have extensive examples going back throughout history and when you train yourself to spot them (Not hard, I bet a fair lot of you already do) it becomes second nature. This, I hope, answers your question a little further as to what's to be understood with psychopathy. I think that getting a popular understanding going of how they do things is exactly the immunization I was talking about... How to stop them from taking advantage of people's hysterical nature, how to get people to see through their doublespeak etc.
Łobaczewski sez:
Parallel to the development of practical knowledge and a language of insider communication, other psychological phenomena take form; they are truly significant in the transformation of social life under pathocratic rule, and discerning them is essential if one wishes to understand individuals and nations fated to live under such conditions and to evaluate the situation in the political sphere. They include people's psychological immunization and their adaptation to life under such deviant conditions.
The methods of psychological terror (that specific pathocratic art), the techniques of pathological arrogance, and the striding roughshod into other people's souls initially have such traumatic effects that people are deprived of their capacity for purposeful reaction; I have already adduced the psychophysiological aspects of such states. Ten or twenty years later, analogous behavior can be recognized as well-known buffoonery and does not deprive the victim of his ability to think and react purposefully. His answers are usually well-thought-out strategies, issued from the position of a normal person's superiority and often laced with ridicule. Man can look suffering and even death in the eye with the required calm. A dangerous weapon falls out of ruler's hands.
We have to understand that this process of immunization is not merely a result of the above described increase in practical knowledge of the macro-social phenomenon. It is the effect of a many-layered, gradual process of growth in knowledge, familiarization with the phenomenon, creation of the appropriate reactive habits, and self-control, with an overall conception and moral principles being worked out in the meantime. After several years, the same stimuli which formerly caused chilly spiritual impotence or mental paralysis now provoke the desire to gargle with something strong so as to get rid of this filth.
It was a time, when many people dreamed of finding some pill which would make it easier to endure dealing with the authorities or attending the forced indoctrination sessions generally chaired by a psychopathic character. Some antidepressants did in fact prove to have the desired effect. Twenty years later, this had been forgotten entirely.
I have to admit that I've only read parts of his book from what I could gank online but from what I can tell there's an entire chapter of stuff pertaining to immunization in there. I'll research this all further and I suggest everyone else does, too. Oh, and this also touches upon PRDRBADBOY's mention of "The Shock Doctrine".
Well, I think that simply labelling certain people as psychopaths in order to find a solution to the problem is a completely broken way to go at it, as you mentioned - That's a psychopathic method of doing things, really, and if it becomes an accepted method of trying to stop psychopaths then of course some more charismatic psychopath will come along and do the exact same thing to the exact people who don't deserve the label.
But this touches upon what probably would be a more effective way of trying to solve the problem. Their methods are patterns of behaviour that have extensive examples going back throughout history and when you train yourself to spot them (Not hard, I bet a fair lot of you already do) it becomes second nature. This, I hope, answers your question a little further as to what's to be understood with psychopathy. I think that getting a popular understanding going of how they do things is exactly the immunization I was talking about... How to stop them from taking advantage of people's hysterical nature, how to get people to see through their doublespeak etc.
Łobaczewski sez:
I have to admit that I've only read parts of his book from what I could gank online but from what I can tell there's an entire chapter of stuff pertaining to immunization in there. I'll research this all further and I suggest everyone else does, too. Oh, and this also touches upon PRDRBADBOY's mention of "The Shock Doctrine".