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Suzi's avatar

It is, according to some psychologists that one will find the worst psychopaths in top political positions and as CEO's...damaged souls. Damaged from early childhood... with the unmet and unresolved childhood needs and damages forever driving them, who no matter how powerful or wealthy they are, will somehow always need more and more.

Imagine a wealthy family, like say the Rockerfeller family. .. The oldest one who first made money in oil at the start of last century, was the child of a snake oil salesman who lied and cheated his way through life, who knows what that mans childhood was like? His son who became an oil Baron, was a wily, greedy, amoral, unscrupulous businessman who didn't care on whom he trampled to get his own way, no empathy for others. Who knows how awful his childhood was like, being mothered by a single parent, the snake oils salesman had another wife or wives. The first wealthy Rockerfeller grew up in poverty. Whatever damage was done to him as a child, it must have been pretty awful to turn him into the monster he became, his reputation was rock bottom until he decided to become a philanthropist. Funding medical schools, but only as long as they taught chemical medicine, he didn't fund any schools that allowed Homeopathy, Herbalism or any of the many other curative methods that had long been in use. And now we have the monstrosity he built, the medical/pharma/chemical industry. The damage done to his soul in early childhood from what he experienced, was probably passed on via his parenting to his son, as the abused often, though not always, abuse their children or other peoples kids and so the evil is passed on. Imagine how much evil is generated when you have wealthy, dysfunctional families bringing up their kids the way they were brought up. No love, nannies, boarding school, authoritarian father, possibly sexually abused by either older boys, father, teacher or priest. Dependant on the genetics, the childs' reaction will vary one from the other, there are all kinds of ways of compensating for what one has experienced in childhood, psychopathy, sociopathy, narcissism, obsessive compulsive behaviour, paranoia, fear of heights. So many irrationalities and more rooted, mostly in early trauma.

I couldn't make friends with women, didn't trust them until I did therapy and dealt with the old childhood feelings of distrust in my mother, which I hadn't realised lay below the surface and coloured my life. Most of us carry un-needed baggage; some baggage appears to turn some people into psychopaths., and the less damaged in the world have to deal with these monsters.

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Ed Brenegar's avatar

So, they are psychopaths, lacking the capacity to feel, are hyper rational and narcissistic, only understanding the world through their own self-perception. This raises two questions. Were they were born this way, or were they nurtured into this psychopathy by elite institutions during their childhood years? For the betterment of society, do they need therapy or institutional isolation?

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