Fantastic series here Harrison! I've got Mitchell's PhD thesis but it's a hell of a lot to sift through - so very much appreciate you doing this work and bringing it to us with your links to Lobaczewski's work. Brilliant.
Ted Bundy was both a narcissist and a psychopath. He targeted his victims because they incited his schadenfreude form of envy. Schadenfreude says "if I can't have what you possess, neither can you". When a beautiful woman walked in the room all eyes focused on her. This enraged Bundy and left him with feelings of shame and humiliation. No matter how attractive, intelligent, good looking, suave, sophisticated, charming, debonair, he was, he could never compete with a beautiful woman. Had all women been homely like Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Mother Theresa, Ted Bundy may have went on to be a successful lawyer.
I had an question only tangentially related to this, but since you appear to be knowledgeable on the subject I figured i’d ask. Is there any link between these traits and high functioning autism?
I.e. treating human relationships in a mere systematized way for maximum individual gain? I.e. you follow rules and get a specific result, with no concern for morality or others.
As far as I know, most people on the spectrum actually feel a range of emotions, they just don’t pick up on social cues intuitively. Psychopaths don’t feel those emotions, and don’t have much of a problem learning the social cues in order to exploit them. So the link is only a superficial one.
I am by no means an expert, but I would say no. Both narcissist and psychopaths leave a trail of death and destruction wherever they go. It is my understanding that people on the autism spectrum prefer isolation and to be left alone. In addition, they lack the exploitative and manipulative behaviors of the narcissist and psychopath which are a key element in their disorder. Hope this helps.
What if an autist suddenly gained an understanding of other peoples behavior (not their minds, how they react to stimuli) to the point where they could manipulate it for their own benefit? It’d just be like pressing keys on a keyboard at that point.
I still think its as harrison explained above, the results may look the same, hell a truly motivated autist may prove superior at this task as they gain more and more understanding of how to manipulate people without any of the usual underlying issues sociopaths have but their underlying psychology is extremely different.
The real question is just how much understanding of people is really required in our atomized societies?
Mitchell mentions DF are acting on 'instinct' a few times, these [instincts] are normally considered innate was my understanding, since I read Hare I understood it's still considered a mix of biology and social factors.
“From a neurobiological perspective, it seems that psychopathy may be associated with an altered and imbalanced inter-hemispheric dynamics; a relatively hyperfunctioning LH and/or a hypofunctioning RH. Furthermore, within the psychopathic population, the RH hypofunctioning is more characteristic of primary psychopathy with its affective and interpersonal deficits, while the LH hyperfunctioning is most typical of the secondary psychopathy which is marked by impulsivity and antisocial style.”
Check out that recent interview of Dr. Varma by Steven Crowder that caused quite a storm by what it revealed about that character. It sounds like another classic case, and horrifying because of the position he held during the Covid Op. It opened a LOT of eyes!
Excellent stuff. I'm very much appreciating these posts.
Fantastic series here Harrison! I've got Mitchell's PhD thesis but it's a hell of a lot to sift through - so very much appreciate you doing this work and bringing it to us with your links to Lobaczewski's work. Brilliant.
Like Reeves and Ripley recognised each other in Venice.
These findings correspond with my understanding of this type of personality.
I think they make it obvious why my teacher considers such people so dangerous.
Ted Bundy was both a narcissist and a psychopath. He targeted his victims because they incited his schadenfreude form of envy. Schadenfreude says "if I can't have what you possess, neither can you". When a beautiful woman walked in the room all eyes focused on her. This enraged Bundy and left him with feelings of shame and humiliation. No matter how attractive, intelligent, good looking, suave, sophisticated, charming, debonair, he was, he could never compete with a beautiful woman. Had all women been homely like Ruth Bader Ginsberg or Mother Theresa, Ted Bundy may have went on to be a successful lawyer.
Gosh
https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/the-masks-are-off
Very interesting.
I had an question only tangentially related to this, but since you appear to be knowledgeable on the subject I figured i’d ask. Is there any link between these traits and high functioning autism?
I.e. treating human relationships in a mere systematized way for maximum individual gain? I.e. you follow rules and get a specific result, with no concern for morality or others.
As far as I know, most people on the spectrum actually feel a range of emotions, they just don’t pick up on social cues intuitively. Psychopaths don’t feel those emotions, and don’t have much of a problem learning the social cues in order to exploit them. So the link is only a superficial one.
I am by no means an expert, but I would say no. Both narcissist and psychopaths leave a trail of death and destruction wherever they go. It is my understanding that people on the autism spectrum prefer isolation and to be left alone. In addition, they lack the exploitative and manipulative behaviors of the narcissist and psychopath which are a key element in their disorder. Hope this helps.
What if an autist suddenly gained an understanding of other peoples behavior (not their minds, how they react to stimuli) to the point where they could manipulate it for their own benefit? It’d just be like pressing keys on a keyboard at that point.
I still think its as harrison explained above, the results may look the same, hell a truly motivated autist may prove superior at this task as they gain more and more understanding of how to manipulate people without any of the usual underlying issues sociopaths have but their underlying psychology is extremely different.
The real question is just how much understanding of people is really required in our atomized societies?
Instincts are biologically hardwired isn't it?
In reference to what?
Mitchell mentions DF are acting on 'instinct' a few times, these [instincts] are normally considered innate was my understanding, since I read Hare I understood it's still considered a mix of biology and social factors.
Yeah, I think a lot of this is hardwired.
Great articles thanks, have you done any on possible evolutionary advance that these 'pathologies' might have given our species?
Most priests pray and say "No child left behind."
Some priests prey and say "No child's behind left."
This is not funny.
“From a neurobiological perspective, it seems that psychopathy may be associated with an altered and imbalanced inter-hemispheric dynamics; a relatively hyperfunctioning LH and/or a hypofunctioning RH. Furthermore, within the psychopathic population, the RH hypofunctioning is more characteristic of primary psychopathy with its affective and interpersonal deficits, while the LH hyperfunctioning is most typical of the secondary psychopathy which is marked by impulsivity and antisocial style.”
Nice!
If you were to make a substack summarizing all these books, I would read it!
If it gets to a publishable point, let me know and we’ll see if I can help.
Check out that recent interview of Dr. Varma by Steven Crowder that caused quite a storm by what it revealed about that character. It sounds like another classic case, and horrifying because of the position he held during the Covid Op. It opened a LOT of eyes!
I had a quick look at the website you mentioned (Tonia EVANS)
It says
"This process unleashes your Higher Self, aligned with 5th Density Unity Consciousness,"
From what I know 5D is not that much of an very accessible place (to say the least)
A not-free spiritual program featuring "Quantum tunnelling" & "Ascension to 5D" is something that objectively deserves the approach of
"run away"
rather than
"Ms. Evans' spiritualism may not come across as suitable for everyone. I discovered the ideas she uses (...)"
Hmmm
copy-pasting the above in an artificial intelligence text detector provides a 94% match
Human crocodile, more like it.
Jaysis, he was fucking horses at 13