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Anomalies and their Followers as Drivers of Episodic Social Upsets

While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random […]

November 13th, 2018 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: 01. Social Dynamics | Leave a comment

Mind Categories as an Ancient Equilibrium Distribution

Babiak and Hare (2006) conducted psychology experiments in which the antics of what they called “hucksters” were shown to randomly-selected audiences, after which each audience member was interviewed about their impressions of the huckster. The audience members fell into approximately equal thirds in their responses, numbered herein according to the order of their mention in […]

October 22nd, 2017 | Tags: , , | Category: 01. Social Dynamics | Leave a comment

Let’s Do the Math

Published Statistics The statistics commonly published on the demographics of psychopaths: Pgp (1.2% in 2008) is the percentage of the general population who are psychopathic Pgi (0.94% in 2011) is the percentage of the general population who are incarcerated Pip (20% in 2001) is the percentage of the incarcerated population who are psychopathic

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March 7th, 2015 | Tags: , , | Category: 01. Support | Leave a comment

When Did the The Dark Ages Really End?

Consider the following postulate about Western culture:

The Dark Ages did not end in 1500 AD but merely began to end around that time.

While science and technology have the power to enlighten, progress in these areas does not in and of itself constitute enlightenment in the broader population and does nothing in and of […]

September 15th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 01. The Dark Ages | Leave a comment