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In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?
The idea of Donald Trump and Alex Jones and Roger Stone and Stephen Bannon having power over us - that is terrifying.
Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.
That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But
which is why she tried to join the RAF, so she could obtain a socially respectable opportunity to gratify her homicidal urges." "So
Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.
When I was writing my biography of LeBon," Bob Nye told me, "he seemed to me the biggest asshole in the whole of creation.
Wow, I say, politely, but I don't feel it. I'm like a sociopath when it comes to expensive cars. I feel no emotion.
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.
A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
We see ourselves as nonconformist, but I think all of this is creating a more conformist, conservative age.
Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
Google has the informal corporate motto of "don't be evil", but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.' In
It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.
The UFO community?" I said. "Why would government spies want to infiltrate that?" "Oh, Jon," said Steven. "Don't be naive.
There is nothing I dislike more in the world than people who care more about ideology than they do about people.
And a surfeit of checklists, coupled with unscrupulous drug reps, is, Gary said, a dreadful combination. There
Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.
If I had a spouse and two kids to support I certainly would not be telling 'jokes' like he was doing at a conference.
At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better.
Please ejaculate", I silently urged the man, "so I can go to sleep". (In this way I imagine I was like millions of women before me
I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?
What a brilliant cover story. In a success-obsessed society like this one, what's the best rock to hide something under? It's the rock called failure.
We're creating a culture where people feel constantly surveilled, where people are afraid to be themselves.
There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
As soon as the victim steps out of the pact by refusing to feel ashamed," he said, "the whole thing crumbles.
after his lawyer argued that given the passage of time, he wouldn't have a fair hearing. He became a pariah in the offender-profiling world. Now,
Scattered throughout the week were a surprising number of speeches about how we may be killed by undocumented immigrants driving drunk. I
So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I
You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.
But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.
Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.
As somebody back then wrote, "Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.
Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.
The NSA is looking for terrorists. They're not getting psychosexual pleasure out of their schadenfreude about you. -
But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
what's the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them." He
this was a man palpably simulating crying, which made the moment at once awkward, surreal, and quite disturbing. Our
His name was Roger Stone. And he was the man who first introduced Alex Jones to his close friend Donald Trump. *