The Enlightened Perspective on the Political Personality
Enlightened people call politicians psychopaths not because they have some "mental disease." They are "psychopaths" because they do not fit our perception of what qualifies as a decent and moral person. They lack compassion and empathy. They manipulate, harm, and murder others for fun, without feeling a sense of guilt or wrongdoing.
But we do not call these behavioral traits or transgressions diseases for an even more specific reason.
Their behavior is a natural consequence of the power structures of this society, of the cold and emotionless feel of the world, of the authoritarian parenting all around, and the utter degeneracy of the relationship culture of this milieu.
Thus, it is no great shock that psychopaths are perfectly healthy within the context of the current system. They are not diseased at all. They are functioning optimally inside dysfunctional communities.
Change the parameters and formulas of society and the psychopathic individual does not exert as much influence or possess as much energy.
The psychopath draws his maliciousness from the institutions of society as a vampire draws blood. He is given life as a result of humanity's indiscretions about how the social order should be, and now he feeds relentlessly until everyone decides to reprogram civilization.
My name is Sterlin. Follow me at and Psychologic-Anarchist. I also run the Psychologic-Anarchist Facebook page and produce YouTube videos. My interests lie in the intersection of counseling psychology and anarchism. I write about the depredations of psychiatry, and also the philosophy of compassionate anarchism.