Rule By Sociopath

Guest Post by The Zman

In the modern vernacular, the sociopath is someone who lacks empathy, remorse and an understanding of right and wrong. The sociopath sees no difference between the truth and a lie, only their utility. Additionally, they never think about the consequences of their actions. A sociopath sees no harm in telling people that his brain juice will prevent concussions. The veracity of his statements are meaningless. What matters is how well it moves product. People ending up with brain damage as a result is never considered.

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The key thing about the modern sociopath is the ambivalence toward the truth. They think saying something is the same as doing something. What matters is if the words get the listener to do what the sociopath wants them to do. Standing in front of crowd, making false claims, is fine if it causes people to buy product. If the truth sells more product, then the truth is better. From the perspective of the modern sociopath, the difference is about the results, not the accuracy of the statements. The truth or a lie, whichever works.

Now replace “sociopath” with “politician” and “product” with “votes” and you have the modern managerial democracy. It’s not that our politicians lie. It’s that for them, a lie is indistinguishable from the truth. That’s why they seem so utterly shameless. Shame requires a sense of right and wrong, a knowledge that what you said or did is intrinsically wrong. For the people who rule over us, right and wrong only exist in the context of their own ambitions. Something is “right” if it benefits the person in the moment.

An example of this is both the story of Mayor Megan Barry and the coverage of her by the managerial media.

On Jan. 31, the mayor here, Megan Barry, called a news conference to announce that she had been having an affair with Robert Forrest Jr., a police sergeant who was the head of her security detail: “It was wrong, and we shouldn’t have done it,” she said.

Along with this confession, the mayor offered the kind of full-throated apology we almost never get from public officials: “I accept full responsibility for the pain I have caused my family and his,” she said. “I knew my actions could cause damage to my office and the ones I loved, but I did it anyway.”

She ended her statement with a pledge: “God will forgive me, but the people of Nashville don’t have to. In the weeks and months to come, I will work hard to earn your forgiveness and earn back your trust.”

This promise did not seem like an act of damage control. This is the way Megan Barry really talks. The language of full emotional availability is her native tongue.

Perhaps that’s why this city loves her. She hugs schoolchildren. She looks genuinely joyful at city parades and festivals. She grieves that too many Nashville teenagers are slain by guns. When Max Barry, her own son and only child, died suddenly last summer, the people of Nashville wept with her. When she spoke openly about the drug addiction that killed him, we marveled at her courage and admired her resolve to bring addiction out of the shadows of shame.

But in a red state like Tennessee, this liberal mayor also has powerful opponents, and they are not idiots. An editorial in the conservative Tennessee Star wasted no time in calling for her resignation: “Barry and the fawning, liberal Nashville media are trying the Clinton defense.”

Notice that saying you are taking responsibility is now the same as actually taking responsibility. The normal way in which one would seek forgiveness is to confess, demonstrate contrition and atone for the crime. In other words, usually you suffer for having done wrong. It is the willingness to accept punishment that demonstrates your acceptance of right and wrong. What we have here is a soulless effort to turn bad behavior into a political asset by fooling people about her contrition.

This sort of thing has become a feature of the managerial class, as it has become increasingly feminized. The writer of that Times piece is a typical feminist, lacking anything resembling a rational mind. That’s why she celebrates Mayor Sociopath. The great writer Theodore Dalrymple touches on this in his last Taki piece. In a world of emasculated liars, lying becomes the most noble of qualities. That means everyone is now trained to lie about themselves and their intentions. Mendacity is the coin of the managerial realm.

There is another aspect to it. The Mayor is out there performing a one women play intended to let you know how she feels about herself. The expectation is the voters will reward her for being able to tell them how she feels about her own lack of moral scruples. It is a deranged form a solipsism, where all that matters is how one feels about one’s own mind. It’s why the expression, “I feel” turns up in so much of our public discourse. Truth is defined by how one feels about it at any one moment in time.

As Theodore Dalrymple pointed out, the meritocracy has been warped by this self-absorption, so this habit of mind is being forced onto the younger generations. If you want to get into a good school, you better be good at expressing how you feel about it, in a way that lets the admissions people know you really care. Listen to millennial males talk and it often sounds like girl’s night after one of the coven had a fight with her boyfriend. They endlessly yammer on about how they feel and demand a reward for their good intentions.

I’ve often pointed out that the arrival of women in positions of authority is the death knell of the organization. It means the smart money has moved onto greener pastures, leaving the enterprise to the vultures, who will pick over the corpse for the bits they like. Feminists will get their stuff, homosexuals will make their demands, minorities will air their grievances. In time, the organization collapses under the weight of its own absurdity. That’s what’s happening in the West. It’s a scramble to strip the carcass of civilization.

This will not end well.

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Hollywood Rob

Well written Zman.

unit472/
unit472/

Look at all these high school students out protesting. What are they protesting? The school district, the courts, Washington? All of whom have created a system in which they must go to school with the mentally ill, criminals and misfits. But no they aren’t protesting that which is responsible for the violence in and poor education they are receiving at their schools. They are singing from the same hymn book as the people who have made school massacres routine.

I know teenagers aren’t especially deep thinkers but does the thought ever occur to them that students didn’t always shoot up their schools even when there were even fewer restrictions on firearms? It is a recent phenomenon not an American tradition and the massacres are being committed by other students.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The question shouldn’t be what’s wrong with our gun laws, or the killers or anything else along that line.

It should be what’s wrong with our schools, and it’s obviously something that didn’t used to be since this didn’t used to happen.

Jake
Jake

As one of those guys who had his shotgun in his car at school back in the good old days, I see a lot
of “didn’t use to happen.” There were almost no divorced parents in our world. The idea of killing babies for convenience was inconceivable, a horror story concept. We were still on the Gold Standard at least for balance of payments between countries. Credit cards were something you had heard of but no one had one. Stores were mostly closed on Sunday and it seemed most folks at least belonged to a church whether they attended regularly or not. There was none of this “celebration of life” shit. You died and got an official church funeral.
To sum it up, our folks stayed married, didn’t kill babies, paid off in Gold and went to church now and again. Damn near everybody was home with their family on Sunday.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Maybe in your neighborhood! We had a bookie on every block, church pews filled with folks who committed adultery the night before, and of course “hey, I can get you a great deal on a stereo, don’t worry, it’s not hot” lol.

Wip
Wip

It’s easy to get kids to protest even if they don’t agree with the reason. They get out of school for the day.

m.a.n.i.p.u.l.a.t.i.o.n.

i forget
i forget

Social butterflies in pre-wired neural nets precede sociopathic monarchs. Entomology, ethyl acetate, stick pins & collection cases – countries.

Jimmy Torpedo
Jimmy Torpedo

i forget, are you Thomas Pynchon?

i forget
i forget

No. When pinch is on, I might be doubting Thomas, tho.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Jimmy Torpor still trying to pin down iforget’s writing style. He isn’t Vonnegut, Pynchon, Kesey, Toole, Pirsig or even Tolkien.

i forget
i forget

Lol. Analogy, simile, ‘concrete’ language is slipperee jamboree. Despite all assertions contrary…it really is wind sowing. Put a sock in it, sky pilots – the wind, I mean – & keep an eye on it.

But that Pirsig dude is an angle. I did experience zen on two wheels. But that was riding, not maintaining. Greased lightning, grease monkeying, different sensations, arts; there’s toole’ing & then there’s wrenching.

Oh, & slipping the surly bonds of gravity, arcing through air, cuckoo’s eye view, is a kinda’ rainbow feeling, free flowing, but not ‘free willed’ – that definitely not Bokonon untruth, that closer to Sauron all-seeing eye stuff, or the orb at the top of Maslow’s pharaoh’s tomb.

The provenance of providence, including the one in Rhode Island, is a resort that shouldn’t last, but does.

Scroll thru, see see riders…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgmxl_TvEVE

Overthecliff

Good read,Z. And

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

That Nashville mayor’s husband sounds like a real libtard fag. You can hardly blame her for cheating on him.

Uncola

Yo. Heads up. I just finished the rough draft of a piece along these sociopathic lines. As I have time tomorrow, I will button it down, figure out the visuals, and post. My version will be similar to Z-man’s take but with an Uncolastic, bubbliciously bitter flavor and complete with an Orwellian twist.

I hope you’ll like it.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

This is a classic example of a meltdown. It reminds me of an old commercial where a woman screams – Don’t take the car, you’ll Kill Yourself! https://youtu.be/OQJzlWFCZto

Here we have a woman confessing to a bit of workplace hanky-panky; something Trump, Weinstein and Clinton would never do, and she gets pilloried by Saint ZMan the Chaste. Run, Maggita!

Then, in case we are not ready to burn her at the stake like he is, he comes out of the closet as a racist misogynistic, homophobe. It’s the end of the world, I tell you!

I hope Uncollated has a better article.

i forget
i forget

Reminds me of Ralphie’s mom

Been watching “Bloodline.” Ben Mendelsohn nails it. But it’s south Florida, & nary a skeeter in sight.

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