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Harry, you are NOT a sociopath

Posted by Charles Hansen (M) on October 25, 2017 at 18:58:43

In Reply to: Ouch that was painfu! posted by HarryDStanton on October 25, 2017 at 07:39:21:

The fact that you recognize and acknowledge your role in the structures set up in this society proves that you care about others than yourself. And you also acknowledge that it is painful to do so. And you (rightfully) point out that it is not just to benefit you, but also your family.

You have already passed the beginnings of what is often referred to as "waking up". "Waking up from what?" is a a good question. I would say that it is much like the movie "The Matrix" where we have all been programmed to believe certain things, much as the masses in George Orwell's novel "1984".

The scary part is that "1984" is real, and is really happening and we are in the middle of it. When I ask people when they think that "1984" happened, they usually miss by a long time. Go ahead and take a guess and see what you think.
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The correct answer is 1924, as shown in the linked (and banned) BBC documentary. It comprises 4 one-hour episodes, but just watch the first 15 minutes of the first episode and you will start to understand exactly how we have been programmed.

So it is not just us who have been living in a programmed existence (almost like Jim Carrey's character in Peter Weir's brilliant "The Truman Show"), but so have all of our parents for all of their lives, and in many cases, our grandparents for much (if not most) of their lives.

The good news is that humanity is in the middle of its fourth revolution - revolutions that brought about profound social changes. The previous three were:

1) The language revolution. Homo sapiens is roughly 500,000 years old. For the vast majority of this time, we likely lived in packs of between 10 and 20, much like wolves or apes do. Then around 50,000 years ago something happened and we developed language. With the advent of language came the abilities to tell stories and have oral histories and the ability to work together in much more efficient teams. The new societal structure became tribal, with groups of 100 to 300. Tribal societies are largely nomadic, following the game and wild crops as the seasons changed.

2) The agricultural revolution. Around 7,000 years ago homo sapiens discovered both planting and harvesting crops and also domesticating animals. This allowed for massive increases in the supply of foods, but forced societies to stay fixed (with their crops) and introduced the idea of "ownership" of land. Societies were now organized into civilizations, with groups between the thousands and even up to hundreds of thousands.

3) The scientific revolution. After a false start in ancient Greece, the real scientific revolution was 300 to 500 years ago, with Copernicus, Galileo, da Vinci, Newton, and many others driving mankind into "the age of reason". Societies shifted from monarchies, where specific families were chosen by God to rule over people into democracies, whereby "all men are created equal".

Currently humanity has come nearly full circle with the scientific revolution, whereby a few hundred families around the world have literally accumulated the vast majority of its material wealth. They are largely sociopaths who view themselves as "genetically superior" and many are actively seeking to expand their power and control - either by using "ordinary" humans as pawns or even worse, to kill them off to ensure that there will be enough resources for them to continue to live their decadent lifestyles (think of the film "The Hunger Games" here).

The massive concentration of wealth began with the British and Dutch monarchies (the only ones that survive today), continued through the 1800s with bankers, was built upon in the late 1800s and early 1900s through the oil monopolies of the Rockefellers, were added onto by the billionaire industrialists in the transportation industries (railroad barons, automobile dynasties, aircraft billionaires like Howard Hughes), and most lately with the technology giants of Microsoft, Apple, Google (Alphabet), Facebook, and Amazon.

Anybody that has a net worth of a billion dollars is likely a sociopath. An ordinary human cannot comprehend how much money that represents. If a person had $1 billion, and they were young (like, say, Mark Zuckerberg), their wealth is literally unimaginable. Zuckerberg made headlines when he promised to give away 99% of his fortune. It's all a big scam. First of all, who is he going to "give" his money to, and what does he expect in return? Secondly that still leaves him with a half billion dollars in the bank. If a 34-year old person had a half-billion in the bank and didn't earn any interest or returns on any of their investments - just the starting money only, they could spend nearly $1,000,000 per MONTH and not run out of money until they were 84 years old.

Please think about this for a moment. If you could spend a million dollars per month, what would you spend it on? In a couple of months you could pay cash for your dream home. In a couple of more months you could pay cash for a "vacation" home. Then the next month you could buy every exotic car you ever dreamed of. Another month would pay for multiple year-long around the world vacations. I don't know about you, but I probably would have anything I had ever wanted at that point.

That is a guy with only a half-billion dollars. Why to billionaires always seem to want even more money? Because they are broken human beings. To them it is no longer about money. It is strictly about power and control. Not only do they lack empathy and compassion, they lack all regard for humanity.

A wise man I know told me that all (normal) human beings want 4 things:

Peace
Joy
Love
Purpose

In the decades since has told me this, I've not come up with anything missing from this list. Money can certainly be an aid to bringing you peace of mind - when you are not struggling to make ends meet, or feed your family. Yet I don't think it contributes much to the other three. So will a billionaire be any more fulfilled than a millionaire? I don't think so, do you? At what point are you content to say "I have enough material things - having more will not bring me any more of anything meaningful"?

Yet we have literally been programmed to admire sociopaths like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and so on - simply because they are wealthy. Now in the fourth revolution, the world is waking up. And society will change in ways that are just as unimaginable to us as a tribal society of language-speaking humans was to a pack of pre-vocal humans who only communicated via grunts, barks, howls, and signs.

• "Century of the Self" BBC Documentary   (Open in New Window)

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