Status Updates From The Sociopath Next Door

“But history shows us also that a leader with no seventh sense can hypnotize the group conscience still further, redoubling catastrophe. Using fear-based propaganda to amplify a destructive ideology, such a leader can bring the members of a frightened society to see the ‘its’ [victims of moral exclusion] as the sole impediment to the good life, for themselves and maybe even humanity as a whole…”

You can tell this book was written a many moons ago. For example: "Lucky for us, adults do not have the same need for constant stimulation. Despite our stresses, we tend to live within a fairly manageable window of arousal, neither unbearably overstimulated nor understimulated—except for sociopaths. People who are sociopaths report that they crave stimulation almost continually." 2026: The Year of the Sociopath

"But, as Gandhi pointed out with such wonder and relief, 'in the end, they always fall—think of it, always.'"

Me: And Gandhi was assassinated...