Rather than a short disclaimer, this article is a satire on the dangers of the risky behavior in drinking known as preloading when social drinkers are determined to party by drinking before a public event due to high alcohol prices at the even and/or strict liquor laws. After my monologue on preloading, I will rant about social drinkers who become problem drinkers, which is when social drinking becomes a sociopathy. Finally, I will give my take about American Psychopath and the rebooted Halloween movies to explain my conclusions about problem drinking.
Before I move onto the body of the rant itself, my exposure to alcohol and drugs needs to be shared because I truly care for the social drinker.
During my life, I have mostly been a light drinker thanks to intolerance of alcohol due to my Asian physiology when one or two drinks often made me drunk. As well, I practiced safe drinking because I was never exposed to peer pressure over social drinking.
Apart from the rare forays into drinking until my early 30s, my drinking days only occurred around social events. 2007 was a great challenge because of reconnecting with a friend I had met 10 years earlier who is a moderate drinker.
Today, I don't drink alcohol and am totally dry since June 2014 mainly because I believe in sobriety and have continued prayer and meditation to distract me from seeking comfort in the bottle.
Because I had a brief history of binge drinking and other risky behavior until I stopped drinking in 2009, I retain the privilege of experience to be the party pooper in regards to drinking. However, the following rant is because I am stone cold sober.
Addictive behaviors occur long before children are introduced to alcohol and drugs around middle school (grades 5-7). Peer pressure only causes addictions when children want to fit in and socialize.
So I am glad that I chose to not drink until well into my 30s. YMMV.
Tolerance to alcohol occurs when a person who drinks needs more alcohol during regular drinking hours in addition to the copious amounts of drink at home. However, the myth that drinking is fun is encouraged by the fact that you only live once, an attitude that will be addressed later on in this rant.
According to the anti-drinking propaganda, it is said that risky drinking threatens people who once lived productive lives.
In aother myth, public health (doctors, nurses, hospitals) is anti-drinking. Actually public health recommends 1-2 drinks a day as being safer than drinking up to 14 drinks or more over a 60-hour period on the weekend, depending on whether everyone is in party mood, due to a public holiday or other event.
Perhaps it is more fun and entertaining to drink 1-2 drinks with each meal from breakfast, lunch and dinner, as long as the intended purpose is social drinking, be it at home or every day. For the purpose of social drinking is to be of good cheer, apparently.
As has been stated before, preloading behavior occurs when prices are high and laws are strict.
According to health officials, alcohol preloading is harmful, only if the drinker drinks more alcohol later on in the evening. Thus, the risk of excessive drinking is higher than not preloading. The resulting higher consumption levels increase risk for injuries and possibly death.
Strict alcohol laws increase the chance of preloading. Additionally, licensed establishments have a high risk of liability serving already inebriated patrons.
Thus, lowering alcohol prices tends to lower risk of preloading.
Therefore, liquor laws need to be moderated. Liquor prices need to be low enough to encourage less preloading but not so low as to encourage binge drinking. Additionally, both binge drinking and preloading need to be addressed through the use of propaganda advertisements.
It is less risky and cheaper to drink 1-2 drinks at bars, pubs and restaurants with affordable prices every day of the week than to preload on the weekend and risk higher levels of consumption.
From the viewpoint of the consumer, public education from middle school to college level should still discourage preloading and risk factors that may be encouraged by the "you only live once" myth (YOLO).
You do live once, but it is a factor that is disproved by preloading due to strict liquor laws and high alcohol prices.
Contrary to the myth that preloading is safe, more people risk dying from alcohol-related injuries including poisoning, fights at establishments and car accidents.
From the viewpoint of sobriety, preloading might indicate future risk for alcoholism when drinking also occurs during the rest of the week. However, I believe social drinkers are potential alcoholics when inebriated if they are led to the belief that drinking is so fun that every day must be a party in order for them to feel in control. After that suspension of disbelief, they may turn every evening into a party and the line blurs between social drinking and alcoholism.
However, the alcoholic will deny he is an alcoholic because of two pernicious attitudes about drinking: "everyone is doing it" and YOLO. However, a minority of people drink that much or more, while the majority of people may be their concered friends and family who are saddened by the fact that drink became more important than them.
I know of people who met in bars, had a few drinks, and flew in for a Vegas wedding, including Britney Spears who had hooked up with a high school friend, partied, got married and subsequently got the marriage annulled. Fortunately her Vegas wedding was not a career-breaker.
Despite all the late night talk show hosts joking about Spears at that time, the risk of ruined ratings reduced their call for less drinking. That's because the entertainment industry needs the extra revenue from alcohol sales and often considers safe drinking behavior to be an economic threat to their industry.
Yet safe drinking behavior is actually no threat to their industry because more social drinkers can spend each day drinking up to 6 drinks a day with meals per person and not lose sleep over preloading and binge drinking on weekends.
Also the purpose of buying liquor - preferably beer - at night is not to drink it all away before morning but to have enough alcohol to stay within the 6 drinks a day limit. Public drinking education should consist of math quizzes to meet that limit and stay within it, in order to maintain a healthy social drinking climate.
Indeed, the sly promotion of "drinking is fun" by a bar or club is done to obtain high drink sales to derive enough alcoholic revenue to offset the hourly minimum wage. Beer bongs, drinking shooters off hot models, and associated antics are actually done to encourage social drinking at levels which not too many social drinkers can sustain. Nor does ladies' night with half price on shooters promote safe drinking.
All this does is lead to a 1-5 percent of a party of revelers to encounter blackouts and all the mayhem that happens during blackouts, especially the ones that last a month, a year, or maybe even a decade or two.
Right now, I have to discuss sociopaths who drink, because they are the people who have lied to themselves so much that drinking is fun. One successful sociopath too many has said, "I like to have vodka in my cereal every morning." They thus center their lives around being the pernicious party animal.
Although the public health officials have labeled them "problem drinkers," their problem is the ability to believe the lies that they tell other people about their drinking. Since their world revolves around drinking and socializing, they are able to socially engineer a way to stay drunk throughout their lives and often turn binge drinking and preloading into performance art.
Along the way, alcoholic sociopaths give a bad rap to successful sociopaths like celebrities, business people and even Randolph Hearst, a publisher who made his money from alcohol advertisers before Prohibition but also made money by being a moral compass when Mae West came to New York City. Yet Mae West helped Hollywood make money by challenging the moral taboos about being a sexy and successful sociopath for the entertainment industry.
A marvelous Hollywood celebrity who was quite successful during her career is Tallulah Bankhead, who not only drank her way around Hollywood but also snorted her way around the secret party scenes, too. Being a relatively successful sociopath, she also slept her way from casting couch to the beds of other celebrities, men and women alike. Once she had to get a hysterectomy after a bad case of gonorrhea, and said in passing to the hospital surgeon "If you think this is going to stop my behavior, think again."
Thus, society must be ever vigilant about sociopaths who shall be detected during their first forays into social drinking before their white lies lead to the bigger whoppers they tell themselves once they totally buy into the YOLO attitude and make it their motto for life. For alcohol and sociopaths are a dangerous mix that may lead to risk of violence to themselves and their loved ones.
Anyway, I am all done with ranting and would like to thank Hollywood for popularizing social drinking (Jackass), cocaine (Traffik), risky behavior (American Pie), decadent hedonism (those crazy movies from the 30s involving dancing the shimmie while dressed in sheer fabric), and a sociopathy that fails so horribly that sexual psychopathy becomes confused with benign sociopathic behavior by the sociopath's victims (American Psychopath).
If it wasn't for Hollywood, then we wouldn't have all the failed sociopaths who crossed the line into their five minutes of fame. If it wasn't for the brilliance of American mainstream media to enshrine individualism as freedom from neo-conservative sheep mentality, then there wouldn't be the Craigslist killer meme.
In conclusion, I would like to insert a sober moment here to end this rant by stating that the sociopath is not a broken individual as a child. Rather, she is not a victim of child abuse, neglect or anything that horrible.
Rather, a sociopath learns early that society is based on white lies which help us to sleep at nights. When a child is fibbing, it is child abuse to force them to stop lying when few parents can stomach telling their children the truth too early but sometimes failing to figure out the truth about their society.
For a sociopath learns early in childhood that toeing the line comes with benefits and risks, including telling a white lie to ensure family harmony. What a brilliant career in big business awaits them, if only parents were taught from middle school about ethic and morals in a manner than benefits every child.
Indeed, when drinking becomes a sociopathy in middle school, parents should admit to the double standard and determine if they are narcissists, empaths or sociopaths instead of lying about these descriptions for what passes as normal human behavior.
Even so, "normal" is the biggest white lie to promote social harmony while leading to the stigma of the mentally ill without just cause. As is "denial" a white lie when declaring that a psychopath is sane.
Personality disorders are not a sign of insanity unless a person described as sociopathic are mistreated by former friends who can only see through the lies of the sociopath but have little insight into the white lies that lead to real whoppers like "the mentally ill are not really normal people".
Truth be told: Hollywood manufactured the propaganda that psychopaths are horrible people but the reboot of Halloween turn the story of a failed sociopath Michael Myers, who was neglected as a child but was molded by unprofessional therapy by Doctor Samuel Loomis and the incompetence of the State into a serial killer, the criminal psychopath.
However, American Psychopath is not an honest portrayal of sexual psychopathy because it leaves out the antihero's childhood. On the other hand the rebooted Halloween movies is only a portrayal of two kinds of sociopaths, the failed sociopath known as the criminal psychopath and serial killer Michael Myers and the successful sociopath, Dr Samuel Loomis.
Hollywood tells us white lies about sociopaths like Myers while showing Doctor Loomis as a successful sociopath. It also only documents the sexual psychopathy of the antihero in American Psychopath in adulthood, but offers no insight on the fact that he is a failed sociopath whose social drinking helped him to fit into urban society.
Those people who fail as sociopaths sometimes develop a psychopathy if they maladapt to the stress that society places on them. Otherwise, they would be make fine successful sociopaths such as many CEOs, world leaders, and celebrities whose normative behavior endear them to their fans.
Perhaps society is just as subtly as sociopathic as it is empathetic, narcissistic, for it encourages us to be normal in our lives, which might be described as one big snafu where the situation is normal but all fouled up.
On a positive note, 95 percent of people are not sociopaths. Most of them do not drink and few of them turn to drugs. Society is not inherently sociopathic. Rather, it might be that the empathetic and the narcissists in all of us realize how to be successful without harming other people.
YMMV
Originally posted on Oct 13, 2014 at 5:55 PM
American Psychopath: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psycho_%28film%29
Halloween: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(2007_film)
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20140915
Kyrie Eleison: To serve is the meaning of Priesthood (satire)
After two interviews with my bishop, I now have the choice of picking an elder to ordain me as Priest next Sunday. As of that date I am 23 days a baptized Mormon.
Is it not too early to serve the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint? No, for it is not I who hears God calling me but the bishop who knows that I shall be an usher because, despite lost sleep from the night before, I am trusted due to the mercy, not of him, but of God himself.
Yes, but it is because I answered the questions correctly, but not according to my libertarian views. For libertarian means "a person who shall live for the day, choosing to act conservative when it suits him with regard to private worship while actually holding onto liberal values like a life raft in his secular role in society."
I believe the pejorative term to describe me is "hypocrite" which means "a person who applies the least amount of critical thought to all things in his practice of his faith; he who acts pious on Sunday but is the least pious when it is not the Lord's day; a person who act religious in front of pious people."
Recently I have talked to an apostate who is First Nations, and argued with him about the chastity vow. He claims that most religious people break their vows regularly by claiming that overall, most Christians masturbate (99% men, 90% women). My counterargument is that 75% of Mormons masturbate, overall (80% men and 62% women). I decided not to add that by the time they get baptized (between their 10th to 12th year), the rate might be higher but becomes lower.
A lot of Mormons can save their grief if they have fallen due to masturbation. This is not an act that will lead to Spirit Prison. However, this sin is what the Melchizedek priesthood uses to psychologically blackmail members of the church, and sometimes the lower Aaronic priesthood. It is also what confessing to such a thing may lead to NOT being a Good Member In Standing - pun intended.
Since most masturbation is done in the privacy of the home, it is between you and God, not anyone in the Priesthoods to use to control your behavior and to use in an excommunication due to fapping instead of praying to the Lord. Prayer is the recommended method of substitution, i.e. praying rather than fapping.
It is unimportant to the higher priests to even mention masturbation to them, because it tempts them to commit the higher sin of Lording it over you. Remember the Bible story about the rich man praying to God and the poor may praying also. That is the sin that anyone who controls other people, regardless of whether it is religion or politics, commits and it is less pardonable than breaking the vow of chastity.
For when a rich man is humble, he is no different from a poor man who humbles himself by praying, "Lord, have mercy on me a sinner."
Indeed, a priest ought to make the Sinner's prayer his motto.
Reference:
Melchizedek - Latter-Day Saint beliefs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#Latter-day_Saint_beliefs
The Melchizedek priesthood is the higher priesthood; and the Aaronic is the lower.
Is it not too early to serve the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint? No, for it is not I who hears God calling me but the bishop who knows that I shall be an usher because, despite lost sleep from the night before, I am trusted due to the mercy, not of him, but of God himself.
Yes, but it is because I answered the questions correctly, but not according to my libertarian views. For libertarian means "a person who shall live for the day, choosing to act conservative when it suits him with regard to private worship while actually holding onto liberal values like a life raft in his secular role in society."
I believe the pejorative term to describe me is "hypocrite" which means "a person who applies the least amount of critical thought to all things in his practice of his faith; he who acts pious on Sunday but is the least pious when it is not the Lord's day; a person who act religious in front of pious people."
Recently I have talked to an apostate who is First Nations, and argued with him about the chastity vow. He claims that most religious people break their vows regularly by claiming that overall, most Christians masturbate (99% men, 90% women). My counterargument is that 75% of Mormons masturbate, overall (80% men and 62% women). I decided not to add that by the time they get baptized (between their 10th to 12th year), the rate might be higher but becomes lower.
A lot of Mormons can save their grief if they have fallen due to masturbation. This is not an act that will lead to Spirit Prison. However, this sin is what the Melchizedek priesthood uses to psychologically blackmail members of the church, and sometimes the lower Aaronic priesthood. It is also what confessing to such a thing may lead to NOT being a Good Member In Standing - pun intended.
Since most masturbation is done in the privacy of the home, it is between you and God, not anyone in the Priesthoods to use to control your behavior and to use in an excommunication due to fapping instead of praying to the Lord. Prayer is the recommended method of substitution, i.e. praying rather than fapping.
It is unimportant to the higher priests to even mention masturbation to them, because it tempts them to commit the higher sin of Lording it over you. Remember the Bible story about the rich man praying to God and the poor may praying also. That is the sin that anyone who controls other people, regardless of whether it is religion or politics, commits and it is less pardonable than breaking the vow of chastity.
For when a rich man is humble, he is no different from a poor man who humbles himself by praying, "Lord, have mercy on me a sinner."
Indeed, a priest ought to make the Sinner's prayer his motto.
Reference:
Melchizedek - Latter-Day Saint beliefs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melchizedek#Latter-day_Saint_beliefs
The Melchizedek priesthood is the higher priesthood; and the Aaronic is the lower.
20140909
Stop Bullying Wherever It Occurs
Disclaimer: this is not another anti-gay rant. This is an anti-bullying rant.
Remember that boy who hung himself cos he misunderstood when his classmates called him GAY when they actually meant he was LAME for wearing a My Little Pony knapsack to school?
Well, his suicide confirmed it.
Killing yourself for being called name? That's -GAY- LAME.
*CAN YOU KIDS BE MORE CLEAR AND USE THE WORD* LAME *RATHER THAN THE WORD* GAY COS IT IS MORE GAY TO ABUSE A LAME WORD LIKE *GAY* AND THEN SAY *"I AM KIDDING. CHILL?"*
It is often bullying to call people names repeatedly until they cry or get angry.
Nobody believes in the rhyme that "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me", not when everyone is afraid to stop such ad hominem attacks that are fallacies, and possibly evidence of potential sociopathic behavior among the bullies because when you say a lie repeatedly, it begins to ring true.
And life is indeed full of white lies, to hide the true that will set you free.
Remember that boy who hung himself cos he misunderstood when his classmates called him GAY when they actually meant he was LAME for wearing a My Little Pony knapsack to school?
Well, his suicide confirmed it.
Killing yourself for being called name? That's -GAY- LAME.
*CAN YOU KIDS BE MORE CLEAR AND USE THE WORD* LAME *RATHER THAN THE WORD* GAY COS IT IS MORE GAY TO ABUSE A LAME WORD LIKE *GAY* AND THEN SAY *"I AM KIDDING. CHILL?"*
It is often bullying to call people names repeatedly until they cry or get angry.
Nobody believes in the rhyme that "sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me", not when everyone is afraid to stop such ad hominem attacks that are fallacies, and possibly evidence of potential sociopathic behavior among the bullies because when you say a lie repeatedly, it begins to ring true.
And life is indeed full of white lies, to hide the true that will set you free.
Corporal Tilman's Death Exposes the Successful Sociopaths of US Armed Forcesl (satire)
The story of Tilman's death is why a platoon should never split up when a vehicle breaks down, but should stick together within eyesight to ensure everyone knows who is friendly.
Whoever commanded this bad move to split up was effectively the cause of Tilman's death, not the guy who shot him.
"Tillman’s platoon leader first lieutenant David Uthlaut and his radio telephone operator (RTO), 19-year old Jade Lane, were wounded in the incident." -- this is why Tilman's group were not ID'd as friendly. Jade Lane was wounded, and no other trooper in Serial 2 could communicate with Serial 1 (Tilman's group). I bet Uthlaut also forgot to tell Serial 1 not to get out of eyesight. The 1 klick distance implies Serial 1 did not see that Serial 2 needed cover.
As well, Serial 1 was on foot because if they travels by Humvee, it would draw enemy fire. This implies the HVs were not battle hardened with armor.
This man covered up Tilman's death by friendly fire: Brigadier General Gary M. Jones.
By his order, the US military lied to his surviving family is proof that the US military engages in sociopathic behavior in order to draft innocent citizens to become cannon fodder in the Middle East and Afghanistan and anywhere else there is conflict.
This is why "there is no life like it in the Army", because of the patriarchal command structure, which condones rape culture as well.
This is because of GW Bush and Cheney who are the successful sociopaths who lied to the American people about WMD in Iraq and about the real reason for invading Afghanistan. It was not to get bin Laden but to eliminate Taliban threat to US Big Business who stood to profit once the US installed Karzai.
Thankfully Karzai is no friend of the US government.
Reference:
Pat Tilman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Military_career_and_death
Whoever commanded this bad move to split up was effectively the cause of Tilman's death, not the guy who shot him.
"Tillman’s platoon leader first lieutenant David Uthlaut and his radio telephone operator (RTO), 19-year old Jade Lane, were wounded in the incident." -- this is why Tilman's group were not ID'd as friendly. Jade Lane was wounded, and no other trooper in Serial 2 could communicate with Serial 1 (Tilman's group). I bet Uthlaut also forgot to tell Serial 1 not to get out of eyesight. The 1 klick distance implies Serial 1 did not see that Serial 2 needed cover.
As well, Serial 1 was on foot because if they travels by Humvee, it would draw enemy fire. This implies the HVs were not battle hardened with armor.
This man covered up Tilman's death by friendly fire: Brigadier General Gary M. Jones.
By his order, the US military lied to his surviving family is proof that the US military engages in sociopathic behavior in order to draft innocent citizens to become cannon fodder in the Middle East and Afghanistan and anywhere else there is conflict.
This is why "there is no life like it in the Army", because of the patriarchal command structure, which condones rape culture as well.
This is because of GW Bush and Cheney who are the successful sociopaths who lied to the American people about WMD in Iraq and about the real reason for invading Afghanistan. It was not to get bin Laden but to eliminate Taliban threat to US Big Business who stood to profit once the US installed Karzai.
Thankfully Karzai is no friend of the US government.
Reference:
Pat Tilman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman#Military_career_and_death
20140906
Acceptance (satire)
Sometimes society practices a covert form of sociopathy by shaming successful people, merely for being sociopaths, narcissists and empaths.
I find the vitriolic name-calling of such people to be objectionable. All it shows to me is a cold-heartedness inspired by fear that is totally unacknowledged and often denied, only to be projected onto other people who do not meet society's sometimes narrow definition of compassion and understanding.
Ultimately, society becomes monstrous when ill-will towards others people results in unwarranted hatred towards sociopaths, narcissists and empaths.
For we are all a part of society, whether we identify with "being normal", whatever that means, or being a sociopath, narcissist or empath. Society's tendency to project its own monstrous cold-heartedness onto people considered "not normal" results in such people as being monsters.
I affirm they are no such thing, and society is better off with successful sociopaths in business, successful narcissists in show business, and successful empaths in all endeavors, for which they all are a match.
This is not the time to be drawing a line between "them" and "us", but to work for the enlightened times of today where nobody is special and everyone is in it for the long haul towards progress for the Earth.
Instead of hate, let there be love for all people regardless of the labels that might divide us. For acceptance of our fellow sentient beings leads to a stronger society, for the good of us all.
Originally posted on July 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM PDT
I find the vitriolic name-calling of such people to be objectionable. All it shows to me is a cold-heartedness inspired by fear that is totally unacknowledged and often denied, only to be projected onto other people who do not meet society's sometimes narrow definition of compassion and understanding.
Ultimately, society becomes monstrous when ill-will towards others people results in unwarranted hatred towards sociopaths, narcissists and empaths.
For we are all a part of society, whether we identify with "being normal", whatever that means, or being a sociopath, narcissist or empath. Society's tendency to project its own monstrous cold-heartedness onto people considered "not normal" results in such people as being monsters.
I affirm they are no such thing, and society is better off with successful sociopaths in business, successful narcissists in show business, and successful empaths in all endeavors, for which they all are a match.
This is not the time to be drawing a line between "them" and "us", but to work for the enlightened times of today where nobody is special and everyone is in it for the long haul towards progress for the Earth.
Instead of hate, let there be love for all people regardless of the labels that might divide us. For acceptance of our fellow sentient beings leads to a stronger society, for the good of us all.
Originally posted on July 13, 2014 at 8:55 PM PDT
20140706
Normalizing Mental Illness (satire)
"By foregrounding intrinsic evil (the diagnosis of) psychopathy marginalizes social problems and excuses institutional failures at rehabilitation. We need not understand a criminal's troubled past or environmental influences. We need not reach out a hand to help him along a pathway to redemption. The psychopath is irredeemable, a dangerous outsider who must be contained or banished. Circular in its reasoning, psychopathy is nonetheless alluring in its simplicity." --- Karen Franklin, researcher in ethics of forensic psychology
Though there is intrinsic evil in unsuccessful psychopaths, this is a fallacy because successful sociopaths show that they are not always evil.
If a parent neglects a child for "being evil", then perhaps a psychopathy might be accidentally nurtured. However, not all child sociopaths become serial killers.
Therefore, it is a fallacy to assume a sociopath is evil. Rather, the assumption that what we fear in other people denotes evil is magical thinking.
Perhaps the concept of good and evil needs be rethought without reliance on the magical thinking inherent in attributing it to moral character.
Perhaps mental illness needs to be normalized.
Though there is intrinsic evil in unsuccessful psychopaths, this is a fallacy because successful sociopaths show that they are not always evil.
If a parent neglects a child for "being evil", then perhaps a psychopathy might be accidentally nurtured. However, not all child sociopaths become serial killers.
Therefore, it is a fallacy to assume a sociopath is evil. Rather, the assumption that what we fear in other people denotes evil is magical thinking.
Perhaps the concept of good and evil needs be rethought without reliance on the magical thinking inherent in attributing it to moral character.
Perhaps mental illness needs to be normalized.
20140603
The Sociopathy of Post-Modern Society (satire)
Given that 2% of the population is sociopathic why is it then that most parents consistently lie about drugs ("drugs are bad") while doing drugs ("drinking and smoking") but consider themselves responsible adults?
Could sociopathy be inculcated by the family unit and thus be a cultural artifact rather than a mental illness?
If sociopathy is a cultural artifact, then might not sociopathy be a part of a lifestyle?
And if sociopathy is a part of a lifestyle, might not the lies and the tendency to become a serial killer be a consequence of not giving a shit about others (anti-social tendencies) and the inculcation of a narcissistic personality?
If so, then the way public education is now taught surely is ensuring that sociopathy cannot be eradicated due to it being a cultural phenomenon rather than a mental illness.
For sociopathy could be an abreaction to society, specifically the family.
Indeed, the only way to control sociopathy is to be honest about the fact that we tell ourselves white lies daily in order to survive in a society that expects a lot out of each individual but lacks an efficient way of compensating for the negative effects such as stress.
Am I suggesting sociopathy is learned? Yes, sociopathy is adaptative but is harder to "unlearn" than an addiction. However, I deny it is a mental illness because most sociopaths are not mentally ill.
It could even be argued that post-modern society itself contains elements in it which lead 2% of the population to opt out of the majority and become sociopathic e.g. we have no means in hospitals to ensure that children who are seriously ill do not give up hope and become sociopaths as a result of social isolation from their family unit.
A good example of this is Seung-hui Cho, whose childhood illness contributed greatly to his psychopathy which resulted in one of the largest kill-ratio in the history of mass shootings.
What kind of society is it that can create innovative technology yet lacks the manpower to counsel children so that they don't become serial killers? Even if less than 2% of people become sociopaths, why is it that we put stress on our children so that they end up like Columbine and the Santa Barbara mass shooter?
I mention stress, because it is usually the reason for a harmless schizotypy morphing into a schizophrenia. Even though meditation is touted as a vital part of stress relief, very few people in the West can sit still for it to bring stress relief. Instead, harmful sedatives are prescribed, due to the nature of sedatives as an easy solution to stressful situations.
Sociopaths are not going to "get" meditation for it to make a difference in their lives unless they are in a controlled setting to practice it, and even then, the tendency on their part is to not only lie to others that it works for them but to lie to themselves about it working. Most likely, they might be the reason why most people in the West don't meditate because "it doesn't work", which is an opinion and not a fact but an opinion which leads to the instant fix of a sedative.
Thus the idea that a pill will cure a mental illness is also a big lie, and the result of sociopathy when a lot of people believe in it, rather than in meditation.
However, I am presenting meditation as a cure-all because if sociopathic people practice it, either they'll go on to become cult leaders or become better people.
Everyone else will just improve their lives.
Could sociopathy be inculcated by the family unit and thus be a cultural artifact rather than a mental illness?
If sociopathy is a cultural artifact, then might not sociopathy be a part of a lifestyle?
And if sociopathy is a part of a lifestyle, might not the lies and the tendency to become a serial killer be a consequence of not giving a shit about others (anti-social tendencies) and the inculcation of a narcissistic personality?
If so, then the way public education is now taught surely is ensuring that sociopathy cannot be eradicated due to it being a cultural phenomenon rather than a mental illness.
For sociopathy could be an abreaction to society, specifically the family.
Indeed, the only way to control sociopathy is to be honest about the fact that we tell ourselves white lies daily in order to survive in a society that expects a lot out of each individual but lacks an efficient way of compensating for the negative effects such as stress.
Am I suggesting sociopathy is learned? Yes, sociopathy is adaptative but is harder to "unlearn" than an addiction. However, I deny it is a mental illness because most sociopaths are not mentally ill.
It could even be argued that post-modern society itself contains elements in it which lead 2% of the population to opt out of the majority and become sociopathic e.g. we have no means in hospitals to ensure that children who are seriously ill do not give up hope and become sociopaths as a result of social isolation from their family unit.
A good example of this is Seung-hui Cho, whose childhood illness contributed greatly to his psychopathy which resulted in one of the largest kill-ratio in the history of mass shootings.
What kind of society is it that can create innovative technology yet lacks the manpower to counsel children so that they don't become serial killers? Even if less than 2% of people become sociopaths, why is it that we put stress on our children so that they end up like Columbine and the Santa Barbara mass shooter?
I mention stress, because it is usually the reason for a harmless schizotypy morphing into a schizophrenia. Even though meditation is touted as a vital part of stress relief, very few people in the West can sit still for it to bring stress relief. Instead, harmful sedatives are prescribed, due to the nature of sedatives as an easy solution to stressful situations.
Sociopaths are not going to "get" meditation for it to make a difference in their lives unless they are in a controlled setting to practice it, and even then, the tendency on their part is to not only lie to others that it works for them but to lie to themselves about it working. Most likely, they might be the reason why most people in the West don't meditate because "it doesn't work", which is an opinion and not a fact but an opinion which leads to the instant fix of a sedative.
Thus the idea that a pill will cure a mental illness is also a big lie, and the result of sociopathy when a lot of people believe in it, rather than in meditation.
However, I am presenting meditation as a cure-all because if sociopathic people practice it, either they'll go on to become cult leaders or become better people.
Everyone else will just improve their lives.
20130112
The State's Agents are Ignorant of Being Played by Narcissists
"Abusive behavior did not make it into the diagnostic criteria of mental health disorders, nor were its psychodynamic, cultural and social roots explored in depth. As a result of this deficient education and lacking awareness, most law enforcement officers, judges, counselors, guardians, and mediators are worryingly ignorant about the phenomenon.
Only 4% of hospital emergency room admissions of women in the United States are attributed by staff to domestic violence. The true figure, according to the FBI, is more like 50%. One in three murdered women was done in by her spouse, current or former.
The blissfully ignorant mental health professionals are simply unaware of the "bad sides" of the abuser – and make sure they remain oblivious to them. They look the other way, or pretend that the abuser's behavior is normative, or turn a blind eye to his egregious conduct." — Dr. Sam Vaknin, in Conning the System.
This kind of abusive behavior is reprehensible. What is worse is when professionals, who commonly, do not receive any training recognizing and dealing with this kind of behavior, go out of their way to protect narcissists and even believe psychopaths just need kindness and understanding.
Tell that to the victims of the Green River killer.
In cases of domestic abuse, often the police will side with the husband, even if his wife has bruises and spends time in the hospital being patched up by doctors and nurses who again are conned by the narcissist.
Even worse then this are the times when the police could have caught the psychopath but let him go until it became obvious they were dealing with a serial killer.
The Pickton case has collaboration between police and the psychopath. In one case, it was likely the police were supplying Pickton with more victims. However, the police did a coverup to protect their asses.
However, a lot of the times, narcissists and pyshcopaths get away with murder.
The following interview with Jane Schwartz is important to seeing through a narcissist's façade: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/NARCISSISTIC-PERSONALITY-DISORDER/D_96TxEDG5Y
Only 4% of hospital emergency room admissions of women in the United States are attributed by staff to domestic violence. The true figure, according to the FBI, is more like 50%. One in three murdered women was done in by her spouse, current or former.
The blissfully ignorant mental health professionals are simply unaware of the "bad sides" of the abuser – and make sure they remain oblivious to them. They look the other way, or pretend that the abuser's behavior is normative, or turn a blind eye to his egregious conduct." — Dr. Sam Vaknin, in Conning the System.
This kind of abusive behavior is reprehensible. What is worse is when professionals, who commonly, do not receive any training recognizing and dealing with this kind of behavior, go out of their way to protect narcissists and even believe psychopaths just need kindness and understanding.
Tell that to the victims of the Green River killer.
In cases of domestic abuse, often the police will side with the husband, even if his wife has bruises and spends time in the hospital being patched up by doctors and nurses who again are conned by the narcissist.
Even worse then this are the times when the police could have caught the psychopath but let him go until it became obvious they were dealing with a serial killer.
The Pickton case has collaboration between police and the psychopath. In one case, it was likely the police were supplying Pickton with more victims. However, the police did a coverup to protect their asses.
However, a lot of the times, narcissists and pyshcopaths get away with murder.
The following interview with Jane Schwartz is important to seeing through a narcissist's façade: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/NARCISSISTIC-PERSONALITY-DISORDER/D_96TxEDG5Y
20080316
Poor Parent-Child Relationship May Cause Sociopathy: the Asa Coon Case
Reference: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3721204
In mid-October 2007, Asa Coon shot four people at an alternative school in Cleveland. The previous Monday he had been suspended for fighting with another student. The reason? His declared fannish worship of Marilyn Manson, who he deemed his "God".
SuccessTech Academy is an independent alternative high school established to "help" troubled youth who have been disenfranchised from public school due to their dysfunctional behavior. This school didn't have the money to hire two security guards, and on the day of the shooting the only guard was on vacation.
The key statement in this article is the disrespect shown between mother and child. Both his mother and Asa Coon used to diss each other regularly. As well, his elder brother Stephen had been in prison, and Asa has been in and out of juvenile court.
Thus, poverty only causes sociopathy only if the parents do not respect social rules.
And of the four people shot by Coon, none of them died. However, the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind the right ear.
This is surely proof that Asa Coon did not intend anyone harm but was only acting out his rage at being unjustly suspended for daring to defend his fannish worship of Marilyn Manson
School suspension precipitates school shooting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuccessTech_Academy_shooting
More dirt dished about Asa Coon paints the sad life of a poor family: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/10/who_was_asa_coon.html
In mid-October 2007, Asa Coon shot four people at an alternative school in Cleveland. The previous Monday he had been suspended for fighting with another student. The reason? His declared fannish worship of Marilyn Manson, who he deemed his "God".
SuccessTech Academy is an independent alternative high school established to "help" troubled youth who have been disenfranchised from public school due to their dysfunctional behavior. This school didn't have the money to hire two security guards, and on the day of the shooting the only guard was on vacation.
The key statement in this article is the disrespect shown between mother and child. Both his mother and Asa Coon used to diss each other regularly. As well, his elder brother Stephen had been in prison, and Asa has been in and out of juvenile court.
Thus, poverty only causes sociopathy only if the parents do not respect social rules.
And of the four people shot by Coon, none of them died. However, the shooter died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound behind the right ear.
This is surely proof that Asa Coon did not intend anyone harm but was only acting out his rage at being unjustly suspended for daring to defend his fannish worship of Marilyn Manson
School suspension precipitates school shooting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuccessTech_Academy_shooting
More dirt dished about Asa Coon paints the sad life of a poor family: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/10/who_was_asa_coon.html
20070418
The Myth of Sociopaths As Soulless
Intellectualize it all you want, she says, but conscience is based on love. It's only a heartbeat from there to conjecturing that conscience — "the nexus of psychology and spirituality" — is science's name for the soul. Since her professional qualifications do not permit her to make pronouncements on metaphysical matters, Martha is skittish about coming out with it, but it's apparent from this equivalence that psychopaths must be soulless. Science has no cure for such a thing. -- Paul Kiel, review of The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout
While conscience is based on love, that love hints at "having a soul." However, to define "conscience" as "the soul," Kiel is muddying the waters.
IMHO the soul is that which is constructed by God, and loaned to a person at birth. By age 4, when the child has the theory of mind figured out, the soul has all it needs to develop conscience in the mind.
Thus conscience is "a sense of obligation ultimately based in an emotional attachment to others". Yet it is formed by the mind in response to both verbal and non-verbal cues.
Philosophically-speaking, a sociopath does have a soul. However, his soul is "obscured" by an ignorance about the ramifications of his inaction - given that all people are at heart good, and that evil is the result of inaction of inherently good people.
Likewise, it is possible for a sociopath to develop a conscience, but it takes longer for him to develop one than other people.
It can also be added that sociopathy is like a form of autism in that all the lies and manipulation obscure the sociopath's ability to empathize with other people.
Just think of it as a moral autism, or what the Buddhists call spiritual ignorance.
Thus sociopaths are not soulless.
While conscience is based on love, that love hints at "having a soul." However, to define "conscience" as "the soul," Kiel is muddying the waters.
IMHO the soul is that which is constructed by God, and loaned to a person at birth. By age 4, when the child has the theory of mind figured out, the soul has all it needs to develop conscience in the mind.
Thus conscience is "a sense of obligation ultimately based in an emotional attachment to others". Yet it is formed by the mind in response to both verbal and non-verbal cues.
Philosophically-speaking, a sociopath does have a soul. However, his soul is "obscured" by an ignorance about the ramifications of his inaction - given that all people are at heart good, and that evil is the result of inaction of inherently good people.
Likewise, it is possible for a sociopath to develop a conscience, but it takes longer for him to develop one than other people.
It can also be added that sociopathy is like a form of autism in that all the lies and manipulation obscure the sociopath's ability to empathize with other people.
Just think of it as a moral autism, or what the Buddhists call spiritual ignorance.
Thus sociopaths are not soulless.
20060813
Treating Sociopathy
"The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity." - Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
Given that the majority of so-called nutcases are harmless, it follows that possibly what turns a few of them into psychopaths are a real fear that so-called normal people will harm them.
For they were punished for their "wrong" speech by parents, by teachers, by the police.
Reacting out of fear, their tormenters physically abused them.
And now the abused lash out violently because of that abuse.
On the flip side, not all people become sociopaths because they had a mother or grandmother to provide compassion to soothe their wounds and their inner sorrow at being betrayed.
For this is the real way to treat sociopaths: with unconditional love.
20050525
Why Mental Illness Is feared (satire)
British Columbia Schizophrenia Society: "'Why Do People Find Mental Illness So Unacceptable?'
Fear of Danger
Many people are afraid that people who have a mental illness are dangerous, unpredictable, and aggressive. In reality, people with a mental illness are usually anxious, fearful of others, and passive. The myth of danger is largely based on inaccurate and outdated cultural myths that always portrayed people with mental illness as violent.
Fear of Criminal Intentions
People with psychiatric disorders are no more likely to commit crimes than the general population. However, if mental illness is left untreated and allowed to become progressively more severe, people who are acutely ill may inadvertently end up in jail. Another common confusion has to do with the nature of involuntary hospitalization, which is sometimes necessary to treat and safeguard someone who is very ill. Hospitalization for medical treatment to regain one's health should never be falsely equated with incarceration in the criminal justice system.
Fear of the Unknown
People often fear what they do not understand. And when they don't understand, they often make wild guesses. Some cultures believe mental illness is the work of evil spirits, while others believe it is caused by bad blood, poisons, or lack of moral integrity. As people learn more about the real nature of mental illness, many of these harmful beliefs fade.
Aversion to Illness
After hundreds of years, 'mental illness' has finally been identified as a disease just like epilepsy, Parkinsonism, or diabetes. But this change from the realm of the witch doctor to the medical doctor doesn't erase all negative feeling -- only lessens it somewhat. The public still has a very strong aversion to hospitals, disease, and doctors.
Better health education programs can help do away with old myths and misunderstandings.
Giving patients the necessary supports to recover in their own communities will also help overcome the general prejudice against all people with mental illness."
As well, most mentally ill people tend to be less likely to lie than sane people, who might be sociopathic in a good way. Though I will point out that sociopathy is not a mental illness nor is criminal psychopathy. It is a legal term as is in/sanity.
Fear of Danger
Many people are afraid that people who have a mental illness are dangerous, unpredictable, and aggressive. In reality, people with a mental illness are usually anxious, fearful of others, and passive. The myth of danger is largely based on inaccurate and outdated cultural myths that always portrayed people with mental illness as violent.
Fear of Criminal Intentions
People with psychiatric disorders are no more likely to commit crimes than the general population. However, if mental illness is left untreated and allowed to become progressively more severe, people who are acutely ill may inadvertently end up in jail. Another common confusion has to do with the nature of involuntary hospitalization, which is sometimes necessary to treat and safeguard someone who is very ill. Hospitalization for medical treatment to regain one's health should never be falsely equated with incarceration in the criminal justice system.
Fear of the Unknown
People often fear what they do not understand. And when they don't understand, they often make wild guesses. Some cultures believe mental illness is the work of evil spirits, while others believe it is caused by bad blood, poisons, or lack of moral integrity. As people learn more about the real nature of mental illness, many of these harmful beliefs fade.
Aversion to Illness
After hundreds of years, 'mental illness' has finally been identified as a disease just like epilepsy, Parkinsonism, or diabetes. But this change from the realm of the witch doctor to the medical doctor doesn't erase all negative feeling -- only lessens it somewhat. The public still has a very strong aversion to hospitals, disease, and doctors.
Better health education programs can help do away with old myths and misunderstandings.
Giving patients the necessary supports to recover in their own communities will also help overcome the general prejudice against all people with mental illness."
As well, most mentally ill people tend to be less likely to lie than sane people, who might be sociopathic in a good way. Though I will point out that sociopathy is not a mental illness nor is criminal psychopathy. It is a legal term as is in/sanity.
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