Posts Tagged ‘psychopathy’
Wall Street Psychopaths and Your Life
Posted: March 24, 2020 in -Tags: Coronavirus, health, lives, psychopaths, psychopathy, right wing, thugs, wall street
TrumpCo’s Latest Lunacy: Psychotic “Doctor” Runs CDC
Posted: May 17, 2018 in -Tags: AIDS, CDC, lunacy, mania, psychopathy, religious nut, Trump
America under Trump has become as completely insane as the Islamic State.
Trump’s New CDC Director: AIDS Is ‘God’s Judgment’ Against Gays
Is Homo Economicus A Psychopath?
Posted: December 17, 2014 in -Tags: economics, greed, homo economicus, Lies, maximization, personality, psychopath, psychopathy, selfishness, trait, weatlh
Forbes
After playing these games numerous times, the researchers found out that about 7% of people were consistent [Homo Economicus], never endowing their partners with any coin.
Snorting Psychopath Defends Zionism
Posted: August 1, 2014 in -Tags: civilians, debate, demonization, fascist, genocide, Israel, Lies, Max Blumenthal, Morton Klein, propaganda, psychopathy, war crimes, Zionism, Zionist Organization of America
This performance speaks for itself. The barrage of lies is as expected.
Psychopathy in US Politicians
Posted: May 14, 2014 in -Tags: banality of evil, culture, organizations, politicians, politics, presidents, PSYCHOLOGY, psychopaths, psychopathy
Psychiatry and Its Frauds
Posted: October 23, 2013 in -Tags: committal, conditions, conflicts of interest, disease, DSM, for profit, health industry, incentives, industry, insanity, Jon Ronson, medical, mental health, mental illness, opinion, power, psychiatry, psychopathy, quackery, racket, sanity, sociopathy, ted
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Peruse this list from the 1800s of psychiatric offenses that could get you committed to the nut house.
Then have a look at how shrinks operate today…
UTR: Stoker (2013)
Posted: August 31, 2013 in -Tags: Mia Wasikowska, psychopathy, review, stoker, thriller, Under The Radar
Mia Wasikowska is so versatile, I didn’t recognize her again. I didn’t pick her out in Lawless or Jane Eyre either.
Stoker is a twisted, somewhat demented tale of murder and psychosis, which I tend to like. I just wrote a short film script like that the other day. This film works as a slowly burning WTF type plot, but not for everybody.
Early in the film, after the twisted uncle arrives at her house to stay, Stoker is sent down to the basement for ice cream – where the housekeeper’s body lies in the freezer. She, an eighteen year old girl, sees this corpse and then does nothing whatsoever about it. I was, I admit, taken right out of the movie at this point. With granny on ice in the cellar, you can’t just continue your life with this psychopathic house guest, not even if you’re not right in the head yourself. It just doesn’t make sense.
Moving beyond that gaffe, Stoker does reveal herself to be genetically predisposed to side with uncle strangler. The mother is a neurotic wreck, and Stoker clearly despises her throughout the film. The family is so odd, reacting nonchalantly to the death of the father and swiftly moving on into a Hamlet like mother/uncle arrangement. But there’s something magnetic about such fucked up characters. We can’t look away because their behaviors may be culturally questionable but entirely understandable. This glaring discord between what most everyone would do and what these people do is nearly enough to carry this plot. Nearly.
Cult Classic: American Psycho (2000)
Posted: April 22, 2013 in Joe GiambroneTags: American Psycho, aristocracy, capitalism, cult classic, Ivy League, plutocracy, psychopathy, sociopathy, wall street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lRCzIaeJio
American Psycho was such an odd, disturbing black comedy / satire that a lot of people didn’t know what to think about it. Reviews were pretty polarized at the time, and yet the film endures as a kind of popular meme, even parodied recently by Huey Lewis and Weird Al Yankovich.
Lewis’ 80’s pop music is cited in the film itself as an example of what American Psycho Patrick Bateman considers the quintessential music of the 1980s Reagan period. Bateman has a lot of opinions about a lot of things, always trying to find the best of the best, or at least the most expensive, with a quirky Batemanesque appeal.
Case in point, he orders a “real blonde” prostitute from a call girl service. Only, she’s not exactly what he ordered. Things end badly.
The film creates a milieu of Ivy League plutocratic decadence with Wall Street trading types loaded with cash and beyond the touch of what most people call the real world. It’s not about Bateman exclusively, but about a sickening American aristocracy laid bare for one of their own to go off the deep end. I’m not sure if the film succeeds at being coherent or consistent thematically. It is a sort of slasher mind fuck question mark. But damn, it’s difficult to forget.
Joe Klein, a Dem. Murderous Psychopath
Posted: November 3, 2012 in -Tags: children, civliians, Democratic Party, drones, empire, militarism, murder, Obama, psychopathy, state murder, terrorism, war crimes
Video linked on Guardian Website (14min – jump to 7min. mark)
Glenn Greenwald has the story in The Guardian.
KLEIN: “If [DRONE BOMBING] is misused, and there is a really major possibility of abuse if you have the wrong people running the government. But: the bottom line in the end is – whose 4-year-old get killed? What we’re doing is limiting the possibility that 4-year-olds here will get killed by indiscriminate acts of terror.”
See also: Report on Drones
Greenwald compares the statements of Klein with those of a captured Jihadi terrorist, as well as with Osama bin Laden, and comes up with a perfect match.