Are Heartless People Simply Born That Way?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. add in huge numbers of people, our needs managed by huge beurocracies

Whether public (gov't and mega-churches) or private (businesses and corporations of all kinds), the net effect of over stretched systems is depersonalization. Loss of humanism. Overwhelm-ment.

Part of the appeal of psychpaths is their high emotion (basically, they only have one: anger), confidence or charm and simplification. They promise vindication to other angry, frightened, confused people. They have no limits on lying.

They look heroic because they are loud and bullish on their lies, and we are more and more dysfunctional as overcrowding, isolation and over stressed survival needs eclipse emotional and social skills. We lose our abilities to detect manipulations. The Recovery movement is one of many social responses to (re)learn emotional skills.

That is what liberals are fighting and why we are so passionate about it. High "Emotional Intelligence"--ability to empathize.