Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
There are some phony egghead studies that make me cranky because they are obviously concocted to sell people on something that isn’t true, and there are other phony egghead studies that bumble into conclusions so obvious they make me wonder who spent the dough that was used for the study.
This one kind of falls into the second of those two:
Oh-oh! Politicians share personality traits with serial killers: Study
Using his law enforcement experience and data drawn from the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit, Jim Kouri has collected a series of personality traits common to a couple of professions.
Kouri, who’s a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such as superficial charm, an exaggerated sense of self-worth, glibness, lying, lack of remorse and manipulation of others.
These traits, Kouri points out in his analysis, are common to psychopathic serial killers. [emphasis mine]
Reminds me of that Obama voter who ‘fessed up in a personal e-mail a year ago…he was holding secret hush-hush meetings with my boss at the time, a few years before that, saying “Don’t put Morgan in charge of this, it’ll piss everybody off.” Yup. “Everybody” turned out to be just him. He’d be pissed off because I wouldn’t back his Replacement-Jesus candidate.
Exaggerated sense of self-worth…glibness…lying…lack of remorse…manipulation of others. Check, check, check, check and check.
I don’t know why he bragged about that to me. Seems pretty stupid. But I was glad to have the insight into what was really going on behind the scenes.
Yes, absolutely, by all means let us study these people.
“While many political leaders will deny the assessment regarding their similarities with serial killers and other career criminals, it is part of a psychopathic profile that may be used in assessing the behaviors of many officials and lawmakers at all levels of government.”
I’ve noticed something else about people like this, whether they’ve gone the serial-killer route or found some other life-pursuit. It seems they can talk themselves into believing things, but only if they make an effort out of it.
It’s like their brains are divided into an inner core and a more outward section. They can tell a lie the way a “normal” person would tell a lie, which is to maintain a recognition of what is the true state of affairs, while presenting deceptions to an audience that are contrary to this recognition. So that the contents of the inner and outer sections are different. But this personality type finds that undesirable after a short time, and ultimately opts to tear down the courtyard wall that divides the inner from the outer. To repeat the lie over and over again, until he believes it down to the marrow of his bones. It makes it easier to present the lie and it’s also more effective when it comes time to persuade others to believe (or be open to) the lie.
These people are superbly confident. They have a great appeal to the weaker mind because they seem so certain about everything they do. They don’t change direction. They don’t slow down. The impression they give off is that perhaps they’d re-think things better than anyone else if something could be gained from it, but they’ve done such a dandy job of figuring things out the first time that there is no need and no point.
There is an inevitability in the things they do. There is a sense of futility involved in even thinking about opposing them. In short, they go about things just like a 20-ton wrecking ball.
That’s because they share the same mission as a wrecking ball. Thinking like a grown-up, is a burden reserved for those who design and create. Destruction is a lot easier.
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I’ll never forget the report that sealed my disgust with CNN. 1992 or 1993, Susan Rook came in at the top of the hour telling us that a recent study had found that wealthy people got better health care than poor people.
- Morenuancedthanyou | 06/16/2009 @ 17:25And who is the king of our politicians right now? The one who fits that description best. Hmmmm.
No shit?
I mean, I’m not surprised an Obamessiah voter would do the behind the scenes manipulation, but to come out in a personal email and tell you about it later?
Did you forward that email to your boss?
That is some— I’m at a loss for words.
- philmon | 06/16/2009 @ 17:41Most people fail to understand how dangerous some of these folks are. They keep saying they want this utopia that will work “for everyone”; they say it so often, because deep down they know it isn’t true. They’re consumed with this drive to identify others not like them, and drive those others down into the dirt.
In my position, with a brain in your head you could tell something like that was going on. Still, it was pretty surprising he took it that far, and even more surprising that he ‘fessed up. Naturally it was all my fault; not getting along with people, he was just doing what was necessary to keep the team working at efficiency.
I seem to run into people like this. Not often. That’s like, I think, the third time in twenty years. I think it’s the price you pay for not doing things e-x-a-c-t-l-y the same way everyone else is, in a world in which so many others are just copying each other. Makes people defensive. And my failure to show enthusiasm toward his various “Bush is an idiot” stump speeches didn’t help matters.
The boss passed away a year and a half ago. Wonderful man, left a huge hole in everyone’s hearts.
Nowadays, if someone wants to debate politics at work, I still oblige. But first I want it chiseled in granite who brought the subject up. I notice if the conversation doesn’t remain extremely muted…like something out of The View, but only the more boring exchanges there…any shock, any indignation, any raised voices, people tend to recall later that the right-winger started it. That’s something I’d have done differently in that job. I showed way too much tolerance for that. Not good when someone’s trying to get you tossed out.
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