Elites & Psychopaths

Back in college, I would often see professors (and their insufferable TA’s) draw circles around particular phrases and statements in student papers and leave a question mark on the side. These question marks would often go unsubstantiated. What compelled them to mark up the passage in the first place? Was it confusion, incomprehension, dismay or disagreement?

Looking back on it now, more than a decade later, I can see the situation more clearly than ever. Education has always been propaganda. I went to a pretty liberal university, one of the best in the world according to corporate media, and the thing I remember most vividly from my college years, beyond the boring lectures and general apathy, is just how deeply un-liberal it was in terms of stifling discussion and debate. Any point of view that even slightly deviated from the norm was immediately shot down and ridiculed. And by the norm, I don’t just mean partisan politics, I mean the entire status quo—everything was conducted within discrete parameters designed to maximize profit and conformity.

When they talk about developing the next generation of leaders, what they really mean is brainwashing young people so they can negotiate against their conscience in exchange for earning prestige from the establishment.

And what about the pursuit of knowledge? Well—when you’re summoned to sit inside a stuffy office, while a professor peers at you through her glasses with equal measures of contempt and envy… when “office hours” are a requirement for earning a good grade, overriding intellect and free thinking… you start to understand how the game is played.

The circles are insinuations.

The question marks are warning signals.

Be careful. Anything you say that contradicts our worldview can and will be used against you.

So the same people who warn you vehemently against oppression are quite often expert practitioners in the art of oppression. They just happen to be really good at hiding their lust for power under a narrative of justice.

In short, the perversion of truth has become the stock and trade of professional elites.

The Psychopath Mantra is the “self-help” guide the ruling class doesn’t want you to read. Of course, you can imagine their disgust at a book like this.

“How do you know how we think?” You can hear them shout with a sarcastic shrug of the shoulders. “What gives you the authority to speak on our behalf?”

Thankfully, we live in a free country. We don’t need the permission of elites to speak the truth.