tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post5483431138799455239..comments2024-03-28T00:33:57.308-07:00Comments on Sociopath World: Corporate psychopathUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-37987773488372682952014-11-30T12:02:36.802-08:002014-11-30T12:02:36.802-08:00I've read a lot of this feed. And kesu, you...I've read a lot of this feed. And kesu, you're my favorite commenter from those which I've read. Partially because your image has a bloody eye and partially due to the fact that you own a company. Success and violence, my two absolute favorites. I'm going to take a moment to explain my position, as it's a bit strange. I hope those of you here might have interesting commentary regarding it. I'm going to give myself false names here for privacy reasons. But names nonetheless are relevant to my sociopathy. First. My birth given name is Diana. I was born to a schizophrenic mother of whom I naturally found advantageous for her weaknesses. As a child I was relentless in getting what I want. My grandfather was a violent man with little impulse control ect. He killed himself before my birth thus I've never met him. From descriptions I know of from family members and as a former psychology major he identifies well with APD criterium. Also, I see many similarities in myself. with my family history I naturally have a disposition for mental "illness". During my grandfathers time in the military he was a test subject for LSD. I believe in predispositions people LSD can bring out underlying sociopathic tendencies. My father contests the use of this to his behavior. I had grown up an empathetic individual with normal, if not overactive emotions. However, in my late teens I naturally experimented with drugs. They're fun, anyway. LSD being one of them. Previous to my trip, I was studying clinical psychology with a meek goal of spending my life helping people. I had said to the person watching me, while on LSD that I no longer wish to help people, and that in actuality the idea seems endlessly daunting and annoying. Since then, I mostly introduce myself by a different name when I'm not in a situation my legal name is necessary. I have formulated the name aimee. I find it a basic name which entails no associations and allows me to create a blank and differing persona to match which is complementary and necessary when meeting new people whom I view as targets or connections. Previous to this experience I was in a close relationship for which i couldn't imagine losing. I felt connectedx afterwards I was unable to comprehend the connection any longer. The person I was with was extremely empathic and cared greatly about everyone. I recall a conversation we had in which he sympathized with people dying because of FoxConn and the suicides taking place. I could no longer understand his empathy for this. People are no longer people but chess pieces for which I can use to get ahead or toss aside when I become bored of the game. My response had confused me, because the feeling he had no longer made sense. I recall saying "I understand the concept of this situations wrongness, but I can't seem to process why it matters. It makes no difference to me personally." I believe I have sociopathic tendencies or some type of moderate dissociative identity disorder in which one part of me, which is no longer prevalent is an empath. While another, which has epitomized my being at this point. Is quite sociopathic. I changed my major from psychology to HR and corporate communications. My dream went from making the world a better place, to being bemused by the control I plan to have over others lives. My point, I believe that in my case a predisposition for this "disorder" with the combination of mind altering substances has brought out a unique form of sociopathy for which I cannot find much supporting data aside from relation to environmental factors. I'm curipus if anyone's situation is at all relatable.PathPrincessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-79703019811535706702014-11-30T08:58:56.549-08:002014-11-30T08:58:56.549-08:00@RA, "Perhaps you can get rich selling roses ...@RA, "Perhaps you can get rich selling roses to rich guilty white people."<br /><br />Brilliant and funny. Would work on many, I suspect.<br /><br />GrendelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-31108607032368063002014-11-30T04:42:31.986-08:002014-11-30T04:42:31.986-08:00Dr. Ginger,
See my comments in relation to what ...Dr. Ginger, <br /><br />See my comments in relation to what has been happening, in the newest entry on this blog, entitled "Depression hurts").<br /><br />As I wrote in those comments, I do hope that you will get the right help, and that you will stop hurting others, as you have done to me. What's more, being helped in the right way will also stop you from hurting yourself. <br /><br />I asked you for a sincere apology in an attempt to help you come to a realization, to explain what it means to feel responsibility for one's words/actions and remorse (as you can see in my comments), as well as emphasizing the importance of having the willingness to make a change and to take some steps into the right direction. <br /><br />What I would also like to add, and I strongly believe in this, is that having a conscience is not only present in the mind, but also felt in one's heart. For instance, when I apologize to a person, it comes from the heart, because that is also my conscience. STAY SMARThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829477510152056154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-87557557914876969082014-11-29T21:49:09.559-08:002014-11-29T21:49:09.559-08:00Final post. Then I'm going to bed. I enjoyed t...Final post. Then I'm going to bed. I enjoyed talking to you. Thanks for listening attentively. I am guessing you are from Africa or from Jamaica or some place like that, but I am usually in the dark, so to speak.<br /><br />Anyway, here's the rest and then good night.<br /><br /><br />The veteran concluded, “Once I realized that almost everyone breaks their back on a rose of one sort or another, whatever the circumstances or details, I pretty much achieved quite a bit of peace, contentment, and gratitude that I am alive and choose to enjoy my life for whatever remains of it.”<br /><br />Please forgive this poor retelling. I am working off memory from 50 years ago. The story was well written by a professional fiction writer, and less tendentious, literal, and preachy sounding then my lame summary. <br /><br />Nevertheless, I think there is a reasonable “moral” here. Life is not fair. Some people suffer from terrible diseases. Some make pretty good lives, nevertheless. Consider Stephen Hawking. (There's a movie about him which I haven't seen.) At the other end, consider Alan Turing There's movie about him. One of the greatest geniuses of the 20th Century, persecuted for the “crime” of homosexuality. My daughter is gay and living a happy, productive life with her wife. Being black as a category is now better than slavery and segregation days, but not entirely free of unfair suffering. Being homosexual is not entirely free of bad treatment, but far better than when it was a “sin” punishable by painful death.<br /><br />Life is not fair. But for most of us, especially in 21st Century America, we have a pretty good chance at enjoying life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness despite our eventual death sentence for being a sentient self-aware mortal being, if we choose not to break our back on a rose.<br /><br />Perhaps you can get rich selling roses to rich guilty white people. Call them “expiation roses,” or something. Say, “If you buy this rose from me for $25, I will absolve you of your guilt for having ancestors who raped and brutalize and lived off the slave labor of black peopole.”<br /><br />Hey, look. Look what Barak Obama pulled off by tweaking guilty white people! If you weren’t born in America, you can't become President (and no sane person would want to, in my opinion), but I am sure you can have a fairly rewarding life as a black socio playing by sensible rules. There's probably a pretty good book you can make out of your experiences. “Black Socio Like Me” or something!<br /><br />Radical Agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08630112321918941568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-37479288804443202202014-11-29T21:46:12.490-08:002014-11-29T21:46:12.490-08:00[Continuing. 2 of several]
“For about a year, I w...[Continuing. 2 of several]<br /><br />“For about a year, I was filled with rage and bitterness. I could only focus on the the unfairness of my life. Then gradually I had an epiphany. As I talked to many people, many of whom were perfectly good health physically, and whose lives seemed on a positive course, I realized that many of them were almost as bitter and unhappy as I was, for what seemed like no reason.<br /><br />“Gradually I came to realize that most people, regardless of the material circumstances of their life, in terms of health, wealth, relationships, etc., make themselves unhappy. It's kind of choice that most human beings about their lives.<br /><br />“As I realized this,” the man concluded, “I came to realize I could make the most out of whatever I had left of my life, or I could spend the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself and pissing my life away, or I could choose not to.Radical Agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08630112321918941568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-87233049027061617582014-11-29T21:42:16.160-08:002014-11-29T21:42:16.160-08:00I'll just jump in again. I'm in that kind ...I'll just jump in again. I'm in that kind of mood tonight. First of all, when I was young I read a great short story (which I've never been able to track down again) titled "Everyone Breaks their Back on a Rose" or something like that.<br /><br /> [1 post of of several. I am running off at the mouth tonight and have to break it up to beat the “system.”]<br /><br />The story runs like this. A volunteer in a veterans hospital after the end of WW II meets a veteran of WW II who is completely crippled with a broken back. The volunteer is drawn to the crippled veteran who seems remarkably cheerful and serene despite his plight. The crippled man tells the volunteer his story.<br /><br />“I fought in Europe for America in WWII. I experienced the Battle of the Bulge and some of the worst fighting of the war. I killed people. I saw many of my closest buddies die before my eyes. I never suffered the slightest injury. I returned to America physically unscathed, though my soul was seriously damaged.<br /><br />“When we got home, we marched in a victory parade in New York City. Crowds cheered. Women kissed us. Other people on high floors threw roses at us. Although I was stil suffering shell shock [now called PTSD, but essentially I guess psychic damage and survivors guilt from experiencing terrible events and experiences] I felt great joy and hope that my soul would heal and I could merge back into a normal civilian life. Suddenly I tripped over a rose that someone had thrown from a high floor. I landed terribly and hit my back in the worst possible way. When I came too in the hospital, I learned that I had broken my back in ways that could not be repaired. I faced being a quadraplegic for the rest of my life, after surviving several years of experiencing terrible war fare that could easily crippled or killed me a thousand times.Radical Agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08630112321918941568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-34558840064512286532014-11-29T20:12:18.024-08:002014-11-29T20:12:18.024-08:00Nice to hear from you RA -
Yes - be the success....Nice to hear from you RA - <br /><br />Yes - be the success. 8)~HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-46740827484452631002014-11-29T20:04:30.304-08:002014-11-29T20:04:30.304-08:00Hi Radical Agnostic
I never really thought about ...Hi Radical Agnostic<br /><br />I never really thought about it that way in the sense that a lot of white people do walk around with a sense of white guilt which is absurd because believe u me If the shoe was on the other foot I wouldn't fret at all. <br /><br />But I think u are on the money when u say I may be suffering from some sort of internalilzation. I say this because I notice that with my interactions with white people I'm always self conscious wondering if they think I'm some hood nigger or another young black man who sags his pants. I'm constantly having to put up with the perception they may or may not have and I guess because I'm focusing on myself and instead of them I dont focus on reading them as well as I should. Potofbeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07485695009199099168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-9540974109127912452014-11-29T19:50:20.298-08:002014-11-29T19:50:20.298-08:00Hi Beans. I am not M.E. She seldom pretty much nev...Hi Beans. I am not M.E. She seldom pretty much never answers here and the waiting list to being the topic of her more or less daily post is months, if not years. So take something from my reply, or ignore it completely. It's pretty much the same to me. Posting here is just something for me to do as I wait to die. (I am 70, so who knows if the next tick of the old ticker will be the last?)<br /><br />I will answer completely inappropriately. After all this is a site for socios, so what's appropriate? Especially, for someone who not a “real” socio, but just a hybrid “wannabe.”<br /><br />In one category, I am a white atheist “Jew,” with Eastern European ancestors. I've grown up in America and never faced persecution for being a “Jew,” so I find the category meaningless and useless. I've met one “real Nazi”; a German-born man who was a member of the “Hitler Youth” in 1944, but he was only faking because his parents were deluded fan boys. If I ever do meet a real Nazi, I will probably kill him, though as I am 70 and I have never gone through serial killer training, I doubt I can pull it off.<br /><br />Anyway, despite my white skin and presence of enough traces of empathy to not really belong here, I far more identify with the black community than the “Jewish” community, just as I kind of far more identify with the socio community than the empath community.. Not anything I set out to do, but at 16 had a Harlem-born black chicklet as my first “girl friend.” Later, I taught in black schools, lived in the Seattle “ghetto” (such as it is, but it is real if pathetic compared to Harlem, Watts, etc.) <br /><br />I think if you want to be a rule abiding socio who plays with only blacks . . why not?<br /><br />To some extent, your rhetoric about American society being “rigged” is at least 50% bullshit. When we kept slaves, it was 100% true. When we maintained segregation and lynched black people, etc., it was 90-110% true. I don't know where you live now, but in much of America, white people are so consumed with guilt that most of us are easy prey to any black socio who wants to do a number on us. <br /><br />If you want to limit yourself to “playing” with black people, then that's a fine trip for you,. I guess. Trying (totally unsuccessfully, no doubt) to put myself in your place, I think you have needlessly internalized the inferiority trip white people laid on your parents and grandparents. You know the expression, “The wheels of justice grind very slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine?” An awful lot of white people (I am not one of them) are now consumed with guilt because of what the white devils did to your parents – grandparents – and who knows how many generations back. <br /><br />There's another old expression, “The best revenge is living well.” I suggest you read various “training manuals” about how to jack around white people. I am not as up to date on this stuff as I was when I was younger and living in the black community but a few writers that come to mind are James Baldwin, W.E.B Dubois, Ralph Ellison, Tom Wolfe (white but a tremendous connoisseur of how to jack people around, particularly in terms of race and class consciousness it's hard to beat such old classics as Radical Chic and Mau Mauing the Flak Catchers) and so on and on. Any Black Studies Program can pretty quickly train you on how to manipulate white guilt. Just don't waste your energy on white people like me who have been through it all and are pretty much immune and close to socios ourselves, but for every one like us there's a hundred who are easy pickings to an adept black socio.<br /><br />But life is short, so do whatever works for you. I don't really give much of a shit.Radical Agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08630112321918941568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-34412145239869951792014-11-29T19:45:28.865-08:002014-11-29T19:45:28.865-08:00Hi HLhaller
Thank u for your response. I didn...Hi HLhaller <br /><br />Thank u for your response. I didn't grow up in the states I moved out here about 8 years ago and where I'm from racism isn't as big of a deal well because everyone is Black LOL. But I think I bought into the American system with its values of equality, liberty and Blah blah in my teenage years. <br /><br /><br />Obviously I've been set straight on that front in the ensuing years. I'm not one that's out here begging for equality among all races I dont really care tbh. All I ask is for the rules of engagement to be set and made clear and then let me get to work handling business. <br /><br />If indeed the law applies to everyone equally then let it do so. I don't want to see anyone getting by on the basis of their skin color. P.S: as I finished typing that I realized on the flip side I could get by and have probably gotten by on the basis of affirmative action. Well then this is awkward. However, I still stand by asking for the rules of engagement. Do blacks enjoy the same freedoms and protections of the U.S constitution or not? If no, then let it be said so Im not out here chasing tails Potofbeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07485695009199099168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-37048735482953092002014-11-29T19:36:29.905-08:002014-11-29T19:36:29.905-08:00And, of course, there's Neil Degrass Tyson - h...And, of course, there's Neil Degrass Tyson - he ROCKS!!!HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-22772649177520090112014-11-29T19:34:22.593-08:002014-11-29T19:34:22.593-08:00Hi PoB,
For whatever it's worth, I'm a wh...Hi PoB,<br /><br />For whatever it's worth, I'm a white guy (many who meet me assume that I'm "redneck," but race makes little difference to me; though I find some cultures more difficult to work with than others...) and I am...bothered by Ferguson (among other examples). <br /><br />I don't think being averse to rigged systems is a "socio thing." I think the notion is more along the lines of, I don't mind a corrupt system as long as I get to participate in it (I couldn't find the actual quote - anyone? anyone?).<br /><br />Race is an issue in the USA to be sure. However, I would also point to the advances of sport figures and hip hop artists as one avenue whereby some of our collective (i.e. USA) issues. It's going to take a generation or so more I think...<br /><br />It's interesting - my family came from Eastern Europe in the 1960's, so from the sense of "carrying the sins of our fathers," I should be fairly clean (Jewish people may be able to make claims...another conversation). However, when I talk to my black friends, they show me how that is just another example of racism from both sides (which is why they are my "friends") - they know that my family had nothing to do with the oppression of black people in America in the past. However, because I'm white, I look like all those other assholes.<br /><br />It makes sense to me. It's a drag, but I do see how it works -<br /><br />I don't want to get too political here - it's "an emotionally charged" enough forum as it is. HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-92185813957724232062014-11-29T17:48:41.234-08:002014-11-29T17:48:41.234-08:00Hey ME.
I had a question I was wondering if you ...Hey ME. <br /><br />I had a question I was wondering if you could shed some light on. <br /><br />I've always felt it easier to read or mirror the emotions of fellow "blacks" than I have white people. Due to my difficulty in mirroring the whites Ive tended to prefer making friends with fellow blacks and ignoring whites in general as a result I have no white friends. <br /><br />I don't want to make this about race but in light of the ferguson riots I've been thinking about my own ideas and feelings towards white peiple and white supremacy. <br /><br />In your book I read we socios have no problem with rules just as Long as we understand the rules of engagement we can work with those. but if we feel like the game is rigged we are disgusted or at large feel cheated. When I applied it to my feelings on ferguson and on race I realized I wasn't mad or angry at the cop for shooting the teenager. I honestly didn't feel anything about that. However, what does make me mad is when I feel like the white supremacist system or this American system is rigged in favor of the whites even though the constitution says all men are created equal. That is when I feel like the system has been rigged which in turn leads me to avoid interacting with whites in any meaningful way as much as possible. I'm not trying to have a discussion about race on here, I just thought I would introduce a new perspective on things. If as a black socio, I believe that the American system is rigged I have no incentive to play in an arena rigged for whites in general. Now if the rules said explicitly whites get favored status then I wouldn't have any problems working within those rules but when a constitution says differently but reality on ground says another U can understand my reticence. <br /><br />Hope to hear back from you with your thoughts on the matter. Potofbeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07485695009199099168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-63123616269226152792014-11-29T16:36:07.879-08:002014-11-29T16:36:07.879-08:00I've got a clan of spawns too. :p :pI've got a clan of spawns too. :p :pSuperchicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-40432169934920769022014-11-29T16:34:23.511-08:002014-11-29T16:34:23.511-08:00I've missed him too !I've missed him too ! Superchicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-42245402898126972212014-11-29T15:04:03.222-08:002014-11-29T15:04:03.222-08:00To me speech has more complexity in it that is mad...To me speech has more complexity in it that is made explicit or even implied in that definition -- without knowing anything more about speech itself. Indeed much of our thinking is in terms of words too. Indeed speech doesn't imply communication directly only expression.DoctorSciFihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13423928917489228542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-54114102344380871202014-11-29T03:06:01.846-08:002014-11-29T03:06:01.846-08:00I would argue that speech is an action by which th...I would argue that speech is an action by which thoughts and feelings are communicated.HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-56351337907049831482014-11-29T03:01:24.574-08:002014-11-29T03:01:24.574-08:00and then there is speech...and then there is speech...DoctorSciFihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13423928917489228542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-45807734480614546752014-11-29T02:22:02.711-08:002014-11-29T02:22:02.711-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZOvAH8oR-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZOvAH8oR-Y<br /><br />HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-15672458837754503572014-11-29T02:06:22.239-08:002014-11-29T02:06:22.239-08:00Feelings
Thoughts
Actions
Three different things...Feelings <br />Thoughts<br />Actions<br /><br />Three different things. I've managed to get a reasonably good grip on one - actions. I would say that's a pretty good start and, in the end, all that really should matter. <br />HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-66071211111479139712014-11-28T21:16:31.063-08:002014-11-28T21:16:31.063-08:00"I have seen the other forms of mal intent in..."I have seen the other forms of mal intent in you as well, since I know who you are on this site."<br /><br />lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-21486492581299440662014-11-28T19:15:48.602-08:002014-11-28T19:15:48.602-08:00Happy weekend all - time to put the spawn to bed. ...Happy weekend all - time to put the spawn to bed. 8)~HLHallernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-67061727299380250692014-11-28T19:13:03.370-08:002014-11-28T19:13:03.370-08:00"Ah Dr. G - if I was younger and single...is ..."Ah Dr. G - if I was younger and single...is it strange that I'm tuned on? ("Ma!!!") >8D~" lololDr. Gingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-70075553236604865822014-11-28T18:33:34.604-08:002014-11-28T18:33:34.604-08:00@Harry, It's not strange. For you and many oth...@Harry, It's not strange. For you and many others on this site. :)))<br /><br />GrendelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-33484622705674985252014-11-28T18:11:13.824-08:002014-11-28T18:11:13.824-08:00"yes I think I'll do that, and I'll i..."yes I think I'll do that, and I'll imagin chuckin your ass in to a meat grinder"<br /><br />Ah Dr. G - if I was younger and single...is it strange that I'm tuned on? ("Ma!!!") >8D~HLHallernoreply@blogger.com